During her recent show on August 10, at the Outside Lands festival, pop singer Sabrina Carpenter invited Texas artist Kacey Musgraves on the stage and played an unreleased track.
On the second day of the festival, Carpenter, the 25-year-old singer, whose track Espresso became an early summer success, drew thousands of fans.
She began her performance by playing several tracks from her 2022 album Emails I Can't Send. During the performance, she switched to a medieval-inspired dialect for the outro and sang while reading from a scroll,
“Soon cometh my album, so exciting My heart doth pound beneath my breasts, so mighty Outside Lands, it’s like thou art inside me”
However, this drew a mixed reaction on social media platforms like X.
“She’s so unserious,” commented one user.
Other people also shared the same sentiment.
“Lyricism definitely isn’t her strength..” said one X user.
“Sorry she was interesting for a month in like June but we all are tired of her now,” someone else said.
“Shakespeare's was gagged,” said another X user.
However, some netizens supported her and appreciated her performance.
“Wow she shines like the sun,” commented one netizen.
“Wow,” wrote someone else.
“She ate that,” another one wrote.
Country singer Kacey Musgraves joined Sabrina Carpenter on stage during the performance
Sabrina Carpenter recently performed at the Outside Lands festival on August 10. The singer opened her act with several tracks from her 2022 album Emails I Can't Send. Then she disappeared from the stage, leaving her backup dancers to perform a dance-off.
She soon made a surprise appearance for her fans, wearing a shimmering blue dress and glossy knee-high boots. After that, the pop singer teased the audience by saying,
"She won’t come out though, unless you’re very loud."
Sabrina Carpenter then presented country music singer Kacey Musgraves as her special guest.
"Bay Area, please make some noise for the one and only Kacey Musgraves."
The words “Special guest Kacey Musgraves," appeared on the screens at each end of the stage as the country singer arrived alongside Carpenter.
Carpenter then performed a cover of These Boots Are Made For Walkin, where she also played the tambourine. The two alternatively sang verses from the track, spun around the stage, and danced to it.
Following her performance of Please Please Please, the second single from Carpenter’s forthcoming album Short n’ Sweet, she performed an unreleased track, Slim Pickins, which she recently debuted in a performance at the Grammy Museum on August 2, Friday.
Carpenter's performance was part of a country-heavy lineup for the San Francisco event, which also features Shaboozey, Sturgill Simpson, and Post Malone, who will perform a special country set on Sunday, August 11.
This performance happened before the announcement of Carpenter's new album, Short N' Sweet, which will come out on August 23 through Island Records and is available right now for pre-order and pre-save.