# Taste (Sabrina Carpenter song)
**Taste** is a song by the American singer [Sabrina Carpenter](https://www.edgepedia.org/sabrina-carpenter), released on August 23, 2024 through Polydor/[Island Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/island-records) as the third single from her sixth studio album, *Short n' Sweet*[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/). It followed her two previous Number 1 singles, "Espresso" and "Please Please Please", and topped the UK Official Singles Chart, spending nine weeks at the summit[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | August 23, 2024, Polydor/Island Records; third single from *Short n' Sweet*[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) |
| Writers and producers | Written by Sabrina Carpenter, Julia Michaels, and Amy Allen; produced by John Ryan and Ian Kirkpatrick, with Julian Bunetta also contributing to production[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) • [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5GI38vWew8) |
| Genre | Described by Official Charts as a pop/slacker rock song reflecting on the complexities of relationships[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) |
| UK performance | Entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 1 on 30 August 2024; 9 weeks at Number 1, 45 weeks in the Top 100[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) |
| Other peaks | Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100; Number 1 in Australia and Ireland; Number 2 in New Zealand and Norway[3](https://hitslist.fyi/song/sabrina-carpenter-taste-pkg016bbr7je) • [4](https://acharts.co/song/194878) |
| Music video | Directed by Dave Meyers, co-starring Jenna Ortega, inspired by the film *Death Becomes Her*[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) • [5](https://www.thewrap.com/sabrina-carpenter-jenna-ortega-taste-music-video-death-becomes-her/) |
| Streaming | About 1.6 billion plays on Spotify as tracked by the Kworb statistics service[6](https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/74KM79TiuVKeVCqs8QtB0B_songs.html) |
## Release and production
The song arrived with the album on August 23, 2024, and its music video premiered the same day[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) • [7](https://www.documentarytube.com/blog/sabrina-carpenters-taste-video-jenna-ortega-stars-in-a-campy-horror-rivalry/). The credits listed by [Universal Music Group](https://www.edgepedia.org/universal-music-group) name [Carpenter](https://www.edgepedia.org/carpenter) as vocalist and co-writer alongside [Julia Michaels](https://www.edgepedia.org/julia-michaels) and Amy Allen, with John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, and Ian Kirkpatrick producing; Serban Ghenea mixed the track and Nathan Dantzler mastered it[2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5GI38vWew8). Amy Allen, a songwriter whose credits also include work with Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX, and Rosé, co-wrote all twelve tracks of *Short n' Sweet*[8](https://apnews.com/article/23f69f74777eecba3194cadccd43bbfe).
Carpenter described the song in a statement carried by [Universal Music Japan](https://www.edgepedia.org/universal-music-japan) as one of her favorites on the album, saying she was amused by her own mistakes and by the face-palm situations that relationships put her in, and that she had made the idea of someone she cares about falling for another person lighthearted and fun[9](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/sabrina-carpenter/news/2024-08-23/).
## Music video
The video was directed by Dave Meyers, who also directed the clip for "Espresso", and features the actress [Jenna Ortega](https://www.edgepedia.org/jenna-ortega), known for starring in Netflix's *[Wednesday](https://www.edgepedia.org/wednesday-tv-series)*[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/) • [9](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/sabrina-carpenter/news/2024-08-23/). Carpenter said on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* that the video was inspired by one of her favorite films, *Death Becomes Her*, and that Ortega was a huge fan of that film; she called it her favorite video she had made[5](https://www.thewrap.com/sabrina-carpenter-jenna-ortega-taste-music-video-death-becomes-her/).
The clip is a campy, gory love-triangle romp in which Carpenter plays a spurned ex who attacks the other woman (Ortega) with a butcher knife and ends up impaled on a white picket fence; the two characters kiss toward the end, playing on the chorus line "I heard you're back together, and if that's true / You'll just have to taste me when he's kissin' you"[10](https://www.vogue.com/article/sabrina-carpenter-march-cover-2025-interview). Critics noted further film references, including to *Kill Bill* and *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre*[11](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/creightonian.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/b5/ab599c44-6b0e-11ef-927a-8fc85b27ce9a/66d8e20f776e5.file.pdf). TIME described the video as a viral hit that accompanied the album's release[12](https://time.com/7027418/sabrina-carpenter-interview-time-100-next/).
## Commercial performance
**United Kingdom.** Taste entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 1 on 30 August 2024 and stayed there for nine weeks, the longest-running Number 1 of 2024[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/). By 18 October 2024, in the song's eighth consecutive week at the summit, Official Charts announced that Carpenter had become the first artist in 71 years to spend 21 weeks at Number 1 in the UK in a single year, combining "Taste" (9 weeks), "Espresso" (7 weeks), and "Please Please Please" (5 weeks); the only previous artist to do so was [Frankie Laine](https://www.edgepedia.org/frankie-laine) in 1953[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/). The song spent 45 weeks in the Top 100, with a 25-week continuous run from 5 September 2024 to 20 February 2025[1](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/).
**Elsewhere.** The song reached Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024 and charted for 38 weeks[3](https://hitslist.fyi/song/sabrina-carpenter-taste-pkg016bbr7je). It debuted at Number 1 on Australia's ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart in the week of 2 September 2024, the same week that "Please Please Please" sat at Number 2 and "Espresso" at Number 3[13](https://www.aria.com.au/charts/singles-chart/2024-09-02). Aggregated chart data show Number 1 peaks in Ireland (7 weeks) and Australia (8 weeks), and Number 2 peaks in New Zealand, the United States, and Norway[4](https://acharts.co/song/194878). On Spotify the track had accumulated about 1.6 billion streams[6](https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/74KM79TiuVKeVCqs8QtB0B_songs.html).
The single's debut at Number 2 in the United States came in a week when "Please Please Please" was at Number 3 and "Espresso" at Number 4, a three-song top-five occupancy the Spanish outlet LOS40 noted only [The Beatles](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-beatles) had achieved before[14](https://los40.com/2024/12/05/sabrina-carpenter-walls-e-hilario-aspirantes-a-entrar-en-la-lista-este-sabado/).
## References
1. [TASTE – SABRINA CARPENTER, Official Charts Company](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sabrina-carpenter-taste/)
2. [Taste (Official Audio), Sabrina Carpenter, YouTube (UMG credits)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5GI38vWew8)
3. [Taste by Sabrina Carpenter: chart & list history, hitslist](https://hitslist.fyi/song/sabrina-carpenter-taste-pkg016bbr7je)
4. [Taste by Sabrina Carpenter – Music Charts, acharts.co](https://acharts.co/song/194878)
5. [Sabrina Carpenter Spills on Landing Jenna Ortega for Secret 'Taste' Music Video, TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/sabrina-carpenter-jenna-ortega-taste-music-video-death-becomes-her/)
6. [Sabrina Carpenter – Spotify Top Songs, Kworb](https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/74KM79TiuVKeVCqs8QtB0B_songs.html)
7. [Sabrina Carpenter's "Taste" Video: Plot, Cast and Film References, DocumentaryTube](https://www.documentarytube.com/blog/sabrina-carpenters-taste-video-jenna-ortega-stars-in-a-campy-horror-rivalry/)
8. [Meet Amy Allen, the songwriter behind the music stuck in your head, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/23f69f74777eecba3194cadccd43bbfe)
9. [『Short n' Sweet』リリース、「Taste」MVプレミア公開, Universal Music Japan](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/sabrina-carpenter/news/2024-08-23/)
10. [How the World Fell for Sabrina Carpenter, Vogue, March 2025](https://www.vogue.com/article/sabrina-carpenter-march-cover-2025-interview)
11. [The Creightonian, September 2024 issue](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/creightonian.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/b5/ab599c44-6b0e-11ef-927a-8fc85b27ce9a/66d8e20f776e5.file.pdf)
12. [Sabrina Carpenter Has Waited Her Whole Life for This, TIME](https://time.com/7027418/sabrina-carpenter-interview-time-100-next/)
13. [ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart, week of 2 September 2024](https://www.aria.com.au/charts/singles-chart/2024-09-02)
14. [Sabrina Carpenter, Walls e Hilario, aspirantes a entrar en la lista, LOS40](https://los40.com/2024/12/05/sabrina-carpenter-walls-e-hilario-aspirantes-a-entrar-en-la-lista-este-sabado/)
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