Sabrina Carpenter Just Admitted That She Doesn’t Like One Of Her Most Iconic Lyrics After She Spotted A Completely Accidental Mistake That Fans Thought Was Intentional This Whole Time

At every show, the star ad-libbed a new outro for the song, with each one customized to the city or state she was performing in. 

While the tour ended in 2023, Sabrina has continued this tradition during other performances, including her festival appearances and while opening for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows. 

The singer has become particularly renowned for the seriously NSFW lyrics that she cleverly incorporates into the outros, and fans waiting to see what she has come up with has quickly become a highlight at each show.

In fact, Sabrina said that it took her two years to notice the jarring mistake, which fans had thought was completely intentional this entire time.

Dissecting “Nonsense” in a new TikTok video with Variety, Sabrina read out the song’s tongue-in-cheek closing lyrics: “Woke up this morning, thought I'd write a pop hit / How quickly can you take your clothes off pop quiz?”

“But, y’know, no one has really commented on it,” Sabrina added. “Now I’m bringing it to your attention, so I shouldn’t have done that.”

A couple of fans commented on the TikTok to admit that they, too, dislike this repetition, with one person writing: “Yeah the repeat has always made me mad.”

“It's always bothered me that she says pop twice!” somebody else echoed.

“how did she not notice that…” one person asked, while somebody else wrote: “Pop hit/pop quiz sounds very intentional 😭😭”

“I thought the double pop was intentional and part of the word play,” another user agreed. One more echoed: “i thought she said pop twice on purpose 😭”

“I thought it was intentional!” somebody else wrote.

Others went so far as to say that they actively enjoy Sabrina’s repetition, with one fan commenting: “ive always loved the fact that she uses pop twice in different meanings 🥹🥹”

“I like that she says pop twice I thought that was the point 😂” another added. Somebody else insisted: “It’s cute that she says pop twice, it’s a homophone.”

While one more concluded: “I think it saying pop twice is fun. POP hit, POP quiz. Using the same word but with different meaning is fun and campy.”

Speaking during an appearance on Hot Ones last month, the star acknowledged that the grammatically-incorrect line doesn’t work for everybody.

“I heard a lot of people that were like: ‘She should have said that’s that blonde espresso, duh,’” she explained. “‘Me espresso’ just felt like the right thing to say, and it rhymes with the line before it.”

And during an interview with Apple Music, Sabrina added that she likes the fact that her sense of humor comes through in the lyrics to “Espresso.”

“There was something really exciting about the fact that there was so much personality throughout the entire song, because those are ones that are really, really fun to sing live with a crowd,” she said.

Sabrina continued: “Those are the ones that people, I think when they don’t know my music or who I am or anything, they can just tune into a single song and kind of leave with a better idea of my sense of humor.”