Bucks County's Sabrina Carpenter goes international with Olympics commercial in Paris
The girl is certainly meeting world. Bucks County's own Sabrina Carpenter has gone international, first as Taylor's Swift's opening act on legs of the Eras Tour in South America, Asia and Australia, and now in a TV commercial promoting the Olympic Games.
The NBC spot features the former star of Disney's "Girl Meets World" sipping coffee at a Parisian sidewalk café while enthusiastically chatting up an animated bird about the upcoming Games. Viewing Carpenter's bubbly conversation to "herself," the waitstaff, via subtitles, makes a thinly veiled reference to Carpenter's Top 10 megahit, surmising she has had enough "Espresso."
The 1-minute commercial is the latest national exposure in what has been a breakout year for the Quakertown native. After the Swift tour, Carpenter was featured at Coachella, was the musical guest on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live," announced a global arena tour and has had two top 10 hits, including her first No. 1 single.
The tour, launching in September and coming to Philadelphia Oct. 8, is in support of her upcoming sixth studio album, "Short n' Sweet," due to drop in August. Her latest single "Please Please Please," which last month reached No. 1, is No. 6 this week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, one spot behind her breakout "Espresso," which reached No. 3 earlier in June. Some music pundits tout "Please Please Please" as the signature song of summer '24.
How to get tickets to Sabrina Carpenter concert
Carpenter's 29-date Short n' Sweet Tour stops at the Wells Fargo Center Oct. 8. It is scheduled to head overseas in March 2025.
Tickets sold quickly for Carpenter's Philly show through ticketmaster.com as well as secondary markets.
But seats are available through secondary markets, including VividSeats, Seat Geek, and StubHub, which ranges from $241-$1,307. Prices are as of July 23 and can change due to dynamic pricing and other market factors.
Amaarae is the scheduled opener for the 7 p.m. concert.
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Where is Sabrina Carpenter from
Born in Quakertown, the 24-year-old's family lived in nearby East Greenville, Montgomery County, before heading to Los Angeles to pursue her career at 13. Shortly after, she landed the role of Maya Hart in Disney Channel's "Girl Meets World."
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Carpenter, who was signed to a record deal 10 years ago, has five albums to her credit, including 2022’s “emails I can’t send,” which featured the single “Feather.” She followed it up with the holiday-themed EP “Fruitcake” in November 2023.
As an actress, in addition to Carpenter's role in "Girl Meets World," which ran from 2014 to 2017, she has also appeared in “Law & Order: SVU” and the movies “Adventures in Babysitting” (2016 version), “Tall Girl” (2019) and “Work It (2020).”
Tom Haines writes for the Bucks County Courier Times / USA Today network.
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