Sabrina Carpenter announces album “Short N Sweet”

She’s working late, ‘cause she has a new album coming out August 23. After blessing the world with lyrics like “that’s that me espresso” and “I know I Mountain Dew it for ya,” Sabrina Carpenter is coming back to drown us in bubbly pop girl caffeine later this summer. The former Disney star/current song of the summer candidate announced her sixth studio album, Short N’ Sweet, on social media today, with a flirty peak at what will presumably be its cover art.

“[T]his project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too,” Carpenter wrote in the announcement, alongside a tease of some sort of “surprise” coming Thursday night. Yesterday, the singer also posted a short clip containing a snippet of a new riff (the same one that can be heard coming from the police car’s speakers at the end of the “Espresso” video), so it’s pretty safe to assume that the surprise will be another song with perfectly nonsensical lyrics to obsess over until the full project drops.

We don’t know much else about the album as of this writing, so it’s unclear whether or not the title refers to the length of the album, Carpenter’s 4’11 stature, or a mix of the two. But if the rest of the songs are as catchy as “Espresso”—which clocks in at a mere two minutes and 55 seconds, although repeat plays might make it seem longer—it won’t matter if the LP is 30 minutes or three hours.

Ever since Carpenter dropped the sunny single in conjunction with her Coachella performance at the end of April, people really have been thinking about her every night. That’s not just a line from the song; as of this writing, the song has spent six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, rarely out of the top 10. Adele called the song “my jam” at her concert and Coldplay’s Chris Martin randomly launched into its chorus after a recent performance of “Fix You.” She really did switch it up like Nintendo, if “it” is the brain chemistry of whoever listens to the song.

But while “Espresso” launched Carpenter to the status of Main Pop Girl in a pretty major way, she’s been producing solid hits for years now. While people may be familiar with songs like “Nonsense” and “Feather” (the Catholic church certainly is), Short N’ Sweet will actually be Carpenter’s sixth studio album, after Eyes Wide Open (2015), Evolution (2016), Singular: Act I and II (2018 and 2019), and Emails I Can’t Send. You can preorder it on her website now.