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Ben Rogerson

“We were messing with different keys and then we heard the second verse jump up. It sounds like she’s having this idea in real-time": Jack Antonoff explains that unusual key change in Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please

Logic would suggest that following up one of the biggest songs of the year would be difficult - the only way is down, right? - but Sabrina Carpenter managed to make this seemingly daunting task look effortless.

There was a high risk that, after all that Espresso, Please Please Please - the second single from Carpenter's Short n' Sweet album - could have felt like a major comedown, but listeners said ‘yes, yes, yes’ to its country-nodding charms, and it became another massive hit.

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