How Sabrina Carpenter’s Music Videos Are All Subtly Connected

Carpenter seemed to start connecting her music video storylines with her 2024 hit song “Espresso,” the song that launched her into global pop superstardom.

At the end of the track’s respective video, which features a retro-themed, summer beach day, Carpenter gets arrested after hijacking a man’s boat and taking his credit card.

Does Carpenter get thrown in jail? You’ll have to keep reading to find out.

After her arrest, Carpenter does in fact land herself in jail, as seen at the beginning of the “Please Please Please” music video. But she isn’t behind bars for too long though, getting quickly bailed out. When she picks up her belongings after, the black sunglasses that she wears in the “Espresso” video also appear to be in the bag.

In the “Please Please Please” video, Carpenter sparks a romance with another criminal played by her then-boyfriend actor Barry Keoghan. Featuring a “Bonnie and Clyde” style narrative, the video follows Carpenter picking up her bad boy partner up from jail after he keeps getting arrested for his various criminal acts.

At the end, Carpenter is seen taking control, handcuffing Keoghan to a chair and taping his mouth shut. But before abandoning him there, she leaves him with one last kiss.

Cause of death: Carpenter got back to her killing ways in this video, but had Keoghan do her dirty work. He seemingly kills a man during his bank robbery.

It must have been one memorable kiss in the “Please Please Please” music video, because in the next video for “Taste,” Carpenter seems to have kept the piece of lipstick-stained tape as a souvenir.

At the beginning of the video, a whole bunch of weapons are sprawled out on her bed. Among them is a pink teddy bear with the tape covering its mouth, similar to Keoghan.

Carpenter doesn’t have time to reminisce though, as she has other business to take care of. In the video, she’s seen fighting with another woman, played by Jenna Ortega, over their shared love interest. Featuring over-the-top, gory, comedic violence, the video pays homage to the 1992 film Death Becomes Her, with the two women ultimately realizing the man isn’t worth fighting over, and they decide to join forces.

But don’t worry, Carpenter didn’t forget about Keoghan.

Cause of death: Ortega accidentally slices their shared lover with a chainsaw, thinking it’s Carpenter, and he collapses in a pool and dies.

Carpenter enlisted the help of Dolly Parton in the music video for her re-recorded version of her hit song “Please Please Please.”

In the footage, the two women appear to be on a road strip together in a pickup truck. However, it’s not just any road trip. Toward the end of the video, it’s revealed that a man — who is wearing the same clothing as Keoghan in the original “Please Please Please” film — is tied up in the bed of the truck with a sack over his head.

At one point, a cop car with its lights on comes up behind Carpenter and Parton’s truck, but they’re relieved when they realize the officer isn’t after them. So they continue happily on their road trip, but their smiles and laughter won’t last forever.

The friendship appears to fizzle at the beginning of “Manchild,” as the music video starts with Carpenter being thrown out of a car as it’s headed down a long stretch of road.

After the singer collects herself, the video depicts a satirical road trip that sees Carpenter hitchhiking across the American West and encountering various childish and incompetent men who she deems “manchildren” (see the headline, wink wink).

At the end of the video, she’s seen hopping in one last vehicle that takes off into the distance. Hopefully, whoever is at the wheel is a safe driver.

Cause of death: Almost all of the “manchildren” in the music video met a brutal end, from one sending his car off a cliff to another’s truck exploding, to Carpenter shooting up another car.

Tragically, the commute was cut short as Carpenter’s music video for “Tears” starts with a car wreck. Thankfully, Carpenter survived the crash.

After getting up and collecting herself, she finds an old house in the woods. Once Carpenter enters, she realizes it’s a campy, haunted house that’s a cinematic tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Colman Domingo, dressed in drag, also stars in the video as a Frank-N-Furter-inspired character.

At the end of “Tears,” when Carpenter realized the guy driving the car also survived the wreck at the beginning, she references her long-running pattern of man-killing, saying, “Wait, no. You died earlier, I thought.” The guy replied, “Babe, what are you talking about?” As Carpenter replied: “It’s a thing. Someone has to die every video. I’m sorry. We’ll always remember you though.”

That’s when Carpenter slips off her white stiletto heel and slings it at the man, piercing him in the heart and killing him.

Cause of death: Man stabbed to death by a stiletto heel.

Hope you didn’t forget about the white heel because in her new “House Tour” video, Carpenter steps out of a car at the beginning, wearing a blood-soaked stiletto.

But she quickly gets rid of any evidence, slipping into a new pair of red pumps for the rest of the video. Also starring Margaret Qualley (who co-directed the music video with Carpenter) and Madelyn Cline, the video was inspired by The Bling Ring and sees the trio, disguised as the “Pretty Girl Clean-Up Crew,” robbing and ransacking a Hollywood mansion.

The girls appeared to get away just before the cops arrived, but on their way out, Carpenter didn’t forget to run over a man with their pink van during their escape.

You’ll just have to stay tuned to see what Carpenter has up her sleeve for her next music video.

Cause of death: Carpenter hits a pedestrian while driving her pink van.