Sabrina Carpenter isn’t any stranger to spiciness in her lyrics, however in her hen wings? She doesn’t fare fairly as effectively.  

On the most recent episode of First We Feast’s Hot Ones Thursday (July 11), the 25-year-old pop star answered questions on her skyrocketing profession whereas consuming sizzling hen wings with host Sean Evans, and attempting to not succumb to spice overload. Before the Scoville ranges received too overwhelming, Carpenter addressed complaints about her Billboard Hot 100 prime 5 hit “Espresso,” the principle hook of which earned a barrage of memes when the observe first dropped in April because of its barely clunky syntax: “That’s that me espresso.” 

“So much of what I like is the punchline,” the singer informed Evans. “If people don’t know the punchline, it’s like, waste. That’s how I feel about ‘me espresso.’ I’ve heard a lot of people that were like, ‘She should’ve said, That’s that blonde espresso, duh.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, yes. That is another song as well that deserves its spot in the world, but this one for me … ‘me espresso’ just felt like the right thing to say, and it rhymes with the line before it.” 

“I just think it’s so funny,” she continued, shrugging. “Maybe everyone’s right.” 

The “Please Please Please” artist additionally opened up about how the success of her Emails I Can’t Send single “Nonsense” — which she nearly all the time performs with an NSFW improvised outro tacked on on the finish — has given her confidence earlier than placing her love of The Beatles to work in a spherical of trivia. It was shortly after Evans requested Carpenter about her affinity for overlaying different artists’ songs throughout her reside exhibits, nonetheless, that issues began getting a bit dicey. 

“That was so crazy … You just want to scream,” she exclaimed, exhaling heavy sighs whereas attempting to not yell. She tried to carry it in, however just some seconds later, she let loose a loud, pained, “Oh my god!”  

“It’s really, really hot,” she added with tears in her eyes. “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Has anyone ever sued you?” 

The episode comes a few month and a half forward of Carpenter’s sixth studio album, Short N’ Sweet, which drops Aug. 23. “Notice I didn’t call it Short N’ Spicy because I like sweet things better,” she quipped by tears on the very finish of the interview. 

Watch Carpenter on Hot Ones above.