Sabrina Carpenter clearly knows which side of her geopolitical s***storm is buttered. Marching onto a Union Jack stage while flanked by a parade of King’s Guards, she serves up a vivifying shot of “Espresso” interspersed with snippets of “Rule Britannia”, and closes her ultra-raunchy “Bed Chem” segment by disappearing groinward on one of her sentries (or was he a beefeater?).
Throughout her Brits 2025 opening performance, the Pennsylvania pocket rocket celebrates British pop supremacy as if angling for citizenship, and who could blame her? With America making a monumental arse of itself on the world stage – did you see Teddy Swims dressed as a sentient duvet? – it’s time once more for this land of hope and (morning) glory to step up and lead the free-music world.
