Carpenter’s full setlist:

1. “Taste”
2. “Good grace”
3. “Slim Pickins”
4. “Tornado Warnings”
5. “Lie to girls”
6. “decode”
7. “Bed Chemistry”
8. “Resilience”
9. “Fast times”
10. “Read your mind”
11. “The sharpest tool”
12. “opposite”
13. “because I liked a boy”
14. “Chance”
15. Surprising cover song (for the first show, it was ABBA’s “Mamma Mia”)
16. “Nonsense”
17. “Stupid & Poetic”
18. “Juno”
19. “Please, please, please”
20. “Don’t laugh”
21. Bonus: “Espresso”

What’s up with Carpenter’s famous “Nonsense” outros?

Fans noted that Carpenter designed her show so that she doesn’t have to do an outro when she sings “Nonsense.” Instead, her microphone suddenly cuts out at the end of the song and she is pulled offstage in a surprise twist. A screen above reads“We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical issues.”

On X, formerly known as Twitter, footage surfaced of how “Nonsense” ended during her first concert.

Why didn’t Carpenter include any songs from her other four albums?

Short and sweet is Carpenter’s sixth album, but her tour will only feature songs from her two most recent LPs. That may be due to Carpenter’s own feelings about her earlier music.

Carpenter spoke with Variety early August about how she doesn’t feel as connected to her previous work emails I can’t send, which she released in July 2022.

“For the people who love and listen to those early records, I love you for that,” she said. “But I personally feel a sense of disconnection from them, largely because of the shift in who I am as a person and as an artist, pre-pandemic and post-pandemic.”

She called her last two albums, Short and sweet And emails I can’t send, her first two adult specimens. Sshort and sweet is “my second ‘big girl’ album; it’s a companion, but it’s not the same (as emails I can’t send), she said. “In terms of having full creative control and being a full-fledged adult, I would consider this a second album.”


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