{"id":27064,"date":"2025-09-17T04:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:08:06","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-reflects-on-predicting-her-coachella-headlining-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27064\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter Reflects on Predicting Her Coachella Headlining Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer will headline opening night of the festival when it returns in April <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sabrina-carpenter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sabrina-carpenter\" data-tag=\"sabrina-carpenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> released \u201cEspresso\u201d just in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coachella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coachella\" data-tag=\"coachella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coachella<\/a> not realizing it would become the defining hit of her career. But during her set, she did predict one thing right: her future headlining slot at the festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWoman of my word,\u201d the singer wrote in an Instagram post announcing the lineup for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coachella-lineup-2026-bieber-sabrina-karol-g-anyma-headline-1235426475\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coachella 2026. <\/a>Alongside the caption, she shared a video from when she performed \u201cNonsense\u201d there last year. \u201cCoachella, see you back here when I headline,\u201d she quipped during the personalized outro for the song. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter will hit the stage on Friday for both festival weekends. The XX, Disclosure, Ethel Cain, Teddy Swims, Devo, Sexyy Red, Central Cee, and girl groups BINI and Katseye will perform earlier in the day. Justin Bieber and Karol G will lead the Saturday and Sunday lineups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI feel really grateful that this has happened over the course of a lot of time of me figuring it out because it doesn\u2019t feel like it was sprung up on me,\u201d Carpenter told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sabrina-carpenter-espresso-short-n-sweet-taylor-swift-1235036627\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone <\/a>last year about her not-so-sudden rise to the top. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like I can just relax and be excited about it. I say Sabrina wasn\u2019t built in a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this year, ahead of her latest album Man\u2019s Best Friend, Carpenter appeared on the cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-mans-best-friend-fame-1235359144\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cIf I really wanted to, I could have stretched out Short n\u2019 Sweet much, much longer,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cBut I\u2019m at that point in my life where I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait a second, there\u2019s no rules.\u2019 If I\u2019m inspired to write and make something new, I would rather do that. Why would I wait three years just for the sake of waiting three years? It\u2019s all about what feels right. I\u2019m learning to listen to that a lot more, instead of what is perceived as the right or wrong move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u2018Brina knows best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer will headline opening night of the festival when it returns in April In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25766,156,157,111,139,69,3569],"class_list":{"0":"post-27064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-coachella","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}