Sabrina Carpenter Explains What Is Going on in the ‘Please Please Please’ Music Video
Sabrina Carpenter is a master of the art of the music video and her clip for “Please Please Please” is no exception. The storyline for the video might be a little confusing to viewers who aren’t huge fans of the “Espresso” singer. Carpenter revealed that the music video for “Please Please Please” was connected to one of her previous hits. Interestingly, “Please Please Please” also drew inspiration from a number of classic movies.
Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ is a sequel to ‘Espresso’
According to a 2024 Vogue article, Carpenter reflected on the popularity of her single “Espresso.” “I’m feeling like I will never pay for another coffee again, and I’m so grateful and excited for people to hear the whole record,” she said. “It’s so close to me!”
The “Nonsense” singer said that the “Please Please Please” singer was a sequel to the “Espresso” video. “I ended the last video getting arrested, so naturally I thought it would be satisfying to start the ‘Please Please Please’ video in jail,” she wrote. “I liked the idea of falling in love with a convict and being shocked and embarrassed every time he commits crimes. I was sooo lucky to get Barry Keoghan in the video cause he is just magic on screen.”
The movies that influenced Sabrina Carpenter’s new music video
In Vogue, Carpenter’s collaborator Bardia Zeinal revealed that a handful of classic movies and celebrity power couples inspired the “Please Please Please” clip. “I think more than film references, I was looking at historically and famously chaotic couples,” Zeinal said. “Pamela [Anderson] and Tommy Lee, Sid and Nancy, Madonna and Dennis Rodman, and then in film Natural Born Killers and a bit of Thelma & Louise. These stories about two people who are on the run or on the road, the dynamic shifts in which one person becomes more submissive and the other more dominant.”
Other movies inspired “Please Please Please.” Zeinal Carpenter’s character was based on Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface while Keoghan’s character was based on Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. Carpenter and company certainly have excellent taste in crime movies!
‘Please Please Please’ is about a relatable topic that songs rarely discuss
While the clip for “Please Please Please” is fun, the song is even better. One might assume that “Please Please Please” might be an homage to previous tunes with similar titles. “Please Please Me” by The Beatles and “Please Me” by Bruno Mars and Cardi B are both tunes about achieving sexual satisfaction. They use the term “please” in a sensual way.
Meanwhile, when Carpenter sings “Please Please Please,” she’s begging for her lover not to embarrass her. It’s not sexy in the slightest, and it’s desperate. We’ve all been there. People are messy, and everyone has had a moment where they were hoping their significant other would keep it together during a delicate circumstance. Carpenter handles the uncomfortable emotion with a great sense of humor. The line where she tells her boyfriend he doesn’t need to go out and get fresh air because their ceiling fan is so great might be the funniest lyrics of the year so far.
“Please Please Please” is the sequel to “Espresso” and it handily surpasses it.
