Sabrina Carpenter’s R-rated ‘Taste’ Music Video Featuring Jenna Ortega Completely Ate Taylor Swift’s ‘Fortnight’ Video With Ethan Hawke and Left No Crumbs
- Sabrina Carpenter’s music video for 'Taste' grabs attention with intense visuals.
- The R-rated video, starring Jenna Ortega, features cheeky and edgy content.
- It surpasses Taylor Swift’s 'Fortnite,' which includes eerie science experiments.
In a sea of music videos that all blur together, Sabrina Carpenter’s new one grabs your attention—like a neon sign in a sea of gray! The R-rated video for her recently-released song Taste, starring Jenna Ortega, is making waves.
It has been hailed as a big success because of how cheeky it is. The video is pretty intense and edgy, especially compared to Taylor Swift’s Fortnight, which, despite being stylish, doesn’t hit as hard as Carpenter’s latest creation.
Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega Deliver a Gory Masterpiece
Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste video is a real showstopper. It came out just a few hours after her album Short n’ Sweet was released. The video dives into a visceral narrative filled with intense, over-the-top drama that is hard to ignore. It uses classic horror tricks but goes way over the top with the gore and violence.
The video starts with Carpenter singing a spooky lullaby: “Rock-a-bye baby, snug in your bed/ Right now you are sleeping, and soon you’ll be dead.” Jenna Ortega, known for her roles in Wednesday, Beetlejuice, Scream VI, and X, was the ideal choice for this video.
In the video, Carpenter plays a vengeful character who sneaks into her ex-boyfriend’s home and brutally attacks his new girlfriend (Ortega) with a machete. But Ortega had set up a decoy in the bed and pops out from hiding, shooting Carpenter with a rifle. Carpenter falls out of the second-story window and ends up impaled on the fence below.
Then a messy, gory fight between the two women begins, inspired by the 1992 film Psycho starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. There’s everything from weaponized defibrillators to voodoo dolls, where Ortega even chops off Carpenter’s arm.
The chaos ends with a steamy poolside kiss between the Espresso singer and the Beetlejuice 2 star, before Ortega accidentally kills their shared boy toy with a chainsaw. At the funeral for their lost love, the two women realize they’re better off as friends than enemies.
Taylor Swift’s Fortnight Was Amazing, But Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste Topped It
The video for Taylor Swift‘s song Fortnight starts with its striking cinematic black-and-white palette. In it, T-Swizzle plays a character who’s being experimented on by scientists after a bad breakup. These scientists are none other than Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, who were in the movie Dead Poets Society 35 years ago, together. Post Malone also shows up in the video.
The video starts with Swift waking up in a white gown, chained to a bed in a creepy asylum. Then it cuts to scenes where she’s wiping her face to reveal tattoos. Later, she’s with Malone in a bright room full of typewriters. The story features a couple in strange situations: they hug on a deserted road while a paper tornado swirls around them, and then they end up in a spooky lab where Hawke is a nerdy scientist.
Hawke and Charles are busy in their lab while Swift is strapped to a weirdly upright table, like something out of a Frankenstein movie. Just when Malone strolls back into the lab (now a scientist himself) and saves Swift from the strange experiments.
Of course, Tay’s colorless Fortnight video is amazing in its own way. But the bold move in Sabby’s Taste video stands out from her peers. It guarantees that the video will stick in people’s minds for years because of how different it is.
Taste is available to stream on Spotify.
