Why Sabrina Carpenter is cooler than Taylor Swift

If anyone writes a good break-up song, it's Taylor Swift. Everyone wants to turn it up loud and cry, right?… Maybe that's a personal‘loml’, but no one can deny that Taylor writes poetry. But now that Taylor experience., is happy and engaged , a power vacuum has emerged. Who is going to make songs that perfectly capture how you feel? The solution is here, in glittery outfits and all; Taylor's 'musical daughter' as some call her:

. It's Sabrina who steals the show – in Sabrina Carpenter. Taylor's opening act and in pop culture. Because if Taylor lets us write diaries full of thoughts, then Sabrina encourages us to send drunken texts. Taylor sings fairy tales and Sabrina is the real deal.

This might be a, uh, statement (Swifties don't get mad, I'm a Swiftie too), but it's the truth. Especially in her earlier work, Taylor romanticizes everything. It's about the perfect

love story . Just look at the albums. Evermore Folklore and , where she writes so poetically about love that it could really be folklore stories., She doesn't say she misses her ex, but “.

You marked me like a bloodstain“I knew you'd haunt me like a tattoo kiss”, “I knew you'd haunt all my what-ifs”, ““, and ““chasing shadows in the grocery line“”. Those are quite a few beautiful lines to describe something quite simple. While that's beautiful – and”Cardigan is one of my favorite songs for exactly this reason – it does show that Taylor romanticizes her love life quite a bit. The lyrics could almost be a movie, which sometimes even happens literally. Like the 10-minute version of All Too Well , which was released as a short film after the re-recording of, Red . Sabrina, on the other hand, also writes about her love life and break-ups, but through her humor and simpler lyrics, it feels a bit more real. More relatable. Now Sabrina doesn't just write “That's that me Espresso,” you know. In her album.

Emails I Can’t Send there are also more complex lyrics, with my personal favorite being the title track , about her father's infidelity. Especially in her latest album,, Man's Best Friend.

, Sabrina sings about personal situations: unstable relationships that keep going on and off, she realizes that an old acquaintance has suddenly become very hot, a friend who no longer sees her, a man who only has sultry talk and doesn't treat her well. These are situations that most of us have experienced at some point. It's, , and that's what grabs people., For example in real, where she describes how she romanticizes the simplest actions of a man. “.

Baby, just do the dishes. I’ll give you what you want Tears, .“ Sounds familiar? It might, because finding the bare minimum amazing is something that happens a lot in this digital age. “I get wet at the thought of you, being a responsible guy.” She throws in another joke and the most important thing: she sings as if she were telling it to a friend. That makes her lyrics more realistic and relatable for fans.“Sabrina makes easter eggs hilarious.easter eggs are what Taylor Swift is known for.

: she puts little hints in her photoshoots, music videos, and social media posts to tease unreleased music. Fans take the theories so far that one sounds smarter than the other.

Yes, “I think the best easter eggs are cryptic,”: ze stopt kleine hints in haar fotoshoots, videoclips en sociale media-posts om nog-niet-uitgebrachte muziek te teasen. Fans trekken de theorieën zo ver door dat de een nog slimmer klinkt dan de ander.

“Ik denk dat de beste easter eggs cryptisch zijn,” Taylor told Entertainment Weekly. “They can be in your clothes or jewelry. This is my favorite way to foreshadow.” So she wore a blue dress during a concert as a hint before she 1989 Taylor’s Version – the blue album – announced. Or she sets clocks in her videos to a specific time, which again means a release time. Going on that treasure hunt as a fan is a lot of fun, but it can also be exhausting.

Sabrina’s easter eggs are not hidden, but rather highlighted. There is a red thread running through her music videos that hints at the next song. In Espresso she gets arrested on the beach. In ‘Please, Please, Please’ Barry Keoghan saves her from that and later ends up with tape on his mouth. In the version with Dolly Parton, we see the same man in the trunk of a car. That same car reappears in ‘Manchild’. At the end of that clip, she gets into another car, and we see that one again in Tears.

These are already hints in themselves, but Sabrina has something else fun that always comes back: she injures or kills men in her videos.

Yes, seriously. Since Espresso it ends badly for men in every music video: they get injured or die from the most bizarre accidents. They fall off jet skis, drive cars off cliffs, are transported alive in a trunk, get shot, drown and even Sabrina’s own boyfriend in Tears doesn't survive.

The surprising thing is that this ending has already changed a few times. At first, he was killed by Sabrina herself, because until that moment no man had died in the video. “It’s a thing, someone has to die every video,” she said to him before she threw her stiletto into his heart. In the second ending, a tree is struck by lightning and falls on the man. In the (yes really) third ending, a piano falls from the sky onto him. Well… you can't make it up, and men die from it in Sabrina Carpenter videos. Changing the ending multiple times is also a kind of easter egg, a joke that Sabrina shares with the fans.

Sabrina vs Taylor: who wins?

So: is Sabrina really more fun than Taylor? Look, I'm not going to start a war here. Taylor Swift is amazing, she gives us the biggest stories – and I say this as a Swiftie since I was 16 – but Sabrina is currently writing about the little moments that we experience faster ourselves.

She is a fresh and especially funny breeze. In my book, there is room for both: Taylor remains the soundtrack for your diary, but Sabrina is there for the drunk texts you should have deleted the next morning. Both are delightful.