Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” tour stopped in Detroit on Thursday Sept. 26 for a sold-out Little Caesars Arena. This was the third stop on her 2024-2025 tour.
Sabrina Carpenter is a 25-year-old singer being labeled as one of the top breakout artists of the year. Despite this being a huge year for her, she’s been in the music industry for nearly a decade.
Carpenter’s debut album “Eyes Wide Open” was released back in 2015 while the singer was still on Disney’s “Girl Meets World” and featured songs like “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying” and “The Middle of Starting Over.”
“Short n’ Sweet” was released on Aug. 23 and reached Platinum after being on top of the US Billboard 200 chart. “Taste,” “Bed Chem” and “Good Graces” quickly became some of her most streamed songs.
The tour has been highly anticipated by fans around the world following the release of her album — the crowd was not left disappointed.
The concert began with an animated video of Carpenter which cut to her being called up on stage while still being in a bathtub, an entertaining sight to see. Other videos in between songs were more animated clips and infomercials that felt like a sitcom met Barbie’s Dreamhouse.
Carpenter went through her setlist with energy that matched from the start of the show all the way to the end. While Carpenter started on Disney, the innuendos and short jokes in between songs and in songs creates a new persona from the singer.
Her setlist consists of 21 songs and one surprise track.
- “Taste”
- “Good Graces”
- “Slim Pickins”
- “Tornado Warnings”
- “Lie to Girls”
- “decode”
- “Bed Chem”
- “Feather”
- “Fast Times”
- “Read your Mind”
- “Sharpest Tool”
- “Opposite”
- “because i liked a boy”
- “Coincidence”
- “Spin the Bottle (surprise song)”
- “Nonsense”
- “Dumb & Poetic”
- “Juno”
- “Please, Please, Please”
- “Don’t Smile”
- “Espresso”
Carpenter selected her surprise song for Detroit by playing a game of spin-the-bottle. However, she then ignored the song chosen by the bottle and instead went with “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer.
Surprise past songs included “Mamma Mia” by ABBA in Columbus and “That Don’t Impress Me Much” by Shania Twain in Toronto.
The Barbie-like singer reflected on performing in Michigan as she recalled her time performing at the Pike Room in Pontiac, which had a capacity of 250 guests — much smaller than the limit of 19,000 people at Little Caesars Arena.
As a fan of Sabrina Carpenter, it’s amazing to see how she’s gone from performing at smaller venues like the Crofoot and Masonic Temple in Detroit in 2023 to selling out Little Caesars Arena just a year later.
The show ended with a final pre-filmed video of Sabrina Carpenter bidding goodbye to concert goers and reminding them to visit the merch table along with a series of jokes.
The overall atmosphere was lively and energetic, and Sabrina Carpenter has a great stage presence that can catch the attention of fans and even those who aren’t familiar with her music. The theme is well thought out and entirely captivating.
The “Short n’ Sweet” tour concludes in Milan on March 26, 2025. For future tour dates and updates, you can visit her website that creatively resembles an early-90s magazine theme.
