{"id":386208,"date":"2026-04-18T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:38:07","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-staged-an-a-league-of-their-own-reunion-at-coachella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386208\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter staged an A League Of Their Own reunion at Coachella"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was pretty natural that\u2014as rumors arriving ahead of the show suggested\u2014Sabrina Carpenter might bring Madonna up on stage with her at Coachella this year<\/a> for a little communal celebration and tribute. After all, Carpenter\u2019s hyper-successful pop blend of sexuality and self-awareness owes a lot to Madonna\u2019s titanic run in the \u201980s and beyond, so why not bring her out for a little \u201cVogue,\u201d and even (apparently) a light lesson in astrology? (There\u2019s a new moon in Taurus, we\u2019re informed, so try to keep out of trouble. Also, Madonna just announced a new album, Confessions II, and we\u2019re pretty sure any moon is a good moon for corporate synergy.) Our question, though, is whether anybody realized Carpenter was also staging an inadvertent A League Of Their Own reunion with this weekend\u2019s massive music festival set, and, if so, why was that not the focus of the bit?<\/p>\n

See, Carpenter had a whole \u201cmovies\u201d theme going for her headlining run at Coachella this year, which included bringing Susan Sarandon on stage last weekend<\/a> to do a monologue where she pretended to be an older Carpenter, reflecting on her career. To bookend that moment, Carpenter repeated the trick this weekend with Geena Davis, revealing the whole thing to be a\u00a0Thelma And Louise\u00a0homage. (Although the timing made it more of a Thelma\u00a0or\u00a0Louise situation.) But we simply have to ask: If you have two of the top-billed stars of Penny Marshall\u2019s well-loved 1992 baseball comedy A League Of Their Own already showing up on your stage, how does that idea not dominate your mind? Give Lori Petty a call! Maybe reach out to Hanks, see if he wants to get up on stage and talk about typewriters for a minute. This could have been Coachella\u2019s defining A League Of Their Own-themed headlining set, and the opportunity has clearly been squandered.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Carpenter instead opted to simply play some of the most popular songs on the planet to a screaming horde of fans while paying tribute to an artist who very clearly inspired her. What a waste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was pretty natural that\u2014as rumors arriving ahead of the show suggested\u2014Sabrina Carpenter might bring Madonna up on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-386208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386208","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=386208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}