Sabrina Carpenter brewed up more than just espresso when she headlined Austin City Limits, serving an impressive country-kissed set that left Zilker Park buzzing on Saturday (10/4, good buddy).
Halfway through a set of cute production and teeny hemlines, out popped an unexpected guest who turned the fest into a happening when Shania Twain walked out to join Brina for “That Don’t Impress Me Much.”
The young crowd especially seemed to like when Shania changed the lyric to “You’re from Austin, Texas.”
Twain, the Canadian-born singer from Windsor, Ontario, has the type of career bigger than most people's dreams. Over the years she has sold more than 100 million records.
The Come On Over (1997) album that includes “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” has sold roughly 40 million copies worldwide which puts it rare company blow just AC/DC’s Back in Black (estimated 50 million) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller (estimated 70 million) among the best-selling studio albums of all time.
Sabrina has covered "That Don't Impress Me Much" once, last year in Toronto.
They also appeared together in Carpenter’s Netflix holiday special last year, A Nonsense Christmas, where Twain played Mrs. Claus and sang “Santa Baby” with her.
What was extra nice about the duet was it shook up a setlist that seems to have forgotten Sabrina has a new album that debuted at #1 on the charts.
Of the 17 tracks she played to the festival-goers, only two came from Man’s Best Friend : “Manchild” and “Tears.”
A whopping baker's dozen were from Short N' Sweet. Hell she played more off emails I never sent than she did off 2025's top album debut by a female on Spotify.
Is she waiting till Christmas? Maybe ACL weekend two?
If not then, perhaps SNL when she's doing double duty as the host and the musical guest on October 18?
Here are a few songs from Man’s Best Friend that are doing well on streaming that really should make their live debuts soon: “Go Go Juice” (42 million Spotify streams), “My Man on Willpower” (38 million), “Never Getting Laid” (31 million).
Meanwhile over at YouTube, "When Did You Get Hot?" has over 7 million views and it's just a simple lyric video. Could that be the tune she live debuts on SNL?
Speaking of hot, on Saturday in a sweet move that will add fuel to the gossip rags, during "Juno," Sabrina arrested Joe Keery aka DJO aka Steve from Stranger Things.
After the show they both followed each other on Insta and your girl wrote how much she loved it.
"ACL weekend 1 💛💛💛," she told her 49 million IG followers. "@aclfestival crowd of my dreams, Shania of my dreams, Djo of my dreams. what a perfect night, thank you all so much for coming out and singing loudlyyy just how I like it."
Now in its 23rd year, the ACL festival sprouted from the PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits, which began in 1974.
The festival that attracts 75k fans a day was launched in 2002 and every year it turns Zilker Park into a multi-stage orgy of music in the city that is often called the Live Music Capital of the World.
Sabrina heads to the Opry tomorrow then heads back to Austin next weekend. Then she plays to nights in Steel City, Nashville, TO, and major residencies at MSG and Staples Center.
Get your tix, if you can, or get on the RSVP list on her website.
Short N' Sweet 2025 remaining tour dates
10/07 Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville
10/11 Zilker Park (ACL Music Festival), Austin
10/18 Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, NYC
10/23-10/24 PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh
10/26-11/01 Madison Square Garden, NYC
11/04-11/05 Bridgestone Arena, Nashville
11/10-11/11 Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
11/16-11/23 Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles
