Sabrina Carpenter is winning Met Gala power rankings, raving about Cats on Broadway, and getting the full record-ranking treatment — Monday is not playing around. Welcome to Sabrina Carpenter Daily Fancast. We've got the carpet, the curtain call, and a full Short N' Sweet deep dive queued up. The Cats endorsement alone has my group chat in shambles, so yeah, we're starting there. We'll do Met Gala power rankings first, and then we'll get into why Sabrina calling anything a must-see is apparently melting people's brains. This one comes from Spin It! The Record Ranking Podcast:
Sabrina Carpenter leaves quite an impression (5 feet, to be exact) with her explosive breakout album Short N' Sweet! James & Connor may not be the Sharpest Tools in the shed, but we're ready to break down this album! We'll talk about Sabrina's Best New Artist credentials, her probable and improbable family members, and all the dumb guys in these dozen tunes.
Spin It! The Record Ranking Podcast dropped their Short N' Sweet episode back in late March — episode 194 — and it's making the rounds again, so here we are. The 'five feet, to be exact' opener? Earned. And I respect that they stayed in the bit all the way through the timestamp list — over an hour on a twelve-track album is serious commitment. The Cowboy Carter comparison is the part I'd actually want to hear argued out loud. Those two albums were in very different lanes in 2024, and I don't think Short N' Sweet loses that fight as badly as the Grammy result made it look. Over on r/SabrinaCarpenterFans, with 21 upvotes:
I think she works mostly as a higher-end mezzo. Goodbye sits quote low, as well as a lot of her other songs. And she doesn't sing too high for long enough to strike me as a soprano, there's strategy to it.
Goodbye as exhibit A is a good call. That song sits low on purpose, and it sounds great — mezzo-soprano with taste, that's the read. This one's from The Hollywood Reporter:
The results are in for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Red Carpet Power Rankings, an exclusive partnership with data firm Launchmetrics, revealing that earned engagement for the evening totaled $1.56 billion — that’s a new record for red carpet impact, surpassing the 2025 Met Gala, which totaled $1.3 billion.
Met Gala red carpet numbers are in from Hollywood Reporter and Launchmetrics — one point five six billion in earned engagement, a new record, beating last year's one point three billion. And Sabrina Carpenter in Dior is one of the names at the top of their power rankings. The Dior look was doing the work and the internet knew it immediately — fan edits were circulating before she was even off the steps. Worth noting: the boycott noise before the event clearly didn't move the needle. Engagement went up, not down, so the controversy was basically free promotion. Parasocial irony. Everyone who logged on to be mad still counted as a click. Just Jared writes:
Sabrina was seen holding one of the show’s yellow fans as she left the theatre. She went on her Instagram Stories that night to share a photo of the Playbill, adding, “Must see!!!!!”
Cats: The Jellicle Ball has been nominated for 9 Tony Awards this year, including Best Revival of a Musical
Sabrina caught the reimagined Cats on Broadway Thursday — the Jellicle Ball production with the New York City Ballroom choreography — and hit her Stories with a five-exclamation-mark 'must see.' Not a partnership post, just a genuine co-sign. She went with Sarah, Paloma, and her manager, which is basically her real inner circle — and she walked out holding one of the yellow fans, so she was fully in it. Also, this is like four days after she surprise-performed at the Met Gala. She is not slowing down. The show's up for nine Tonys, including Best Revival, so Sabrina shouting it out right now isn't nothing. That's real visibility during awards season. Just Jared runs it as a celebrity-spotted item, but the timing gives it a little more weight. We've linked every story from today's episode in the show notes, so if something caught your ear, you can head there and read a little further.
That's Sabrina Carpenter Daily Fancast for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.