\u201cManchild\u201d Goes to the Dogs<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIt showed the high level of confidence Carpenter was playing with on Friday night that she burned one of her two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits just a few songs into her set. \u201cManchild\u201d appeared first in a sort of Disney\u2019ed up instrumental interlude, and then in full as Sabrina frolicked with a number of backup dancers dressed as poodles and Dalmatians. It\u2019s a new visual theme for Carpenter, but one that works pretty well with the song \u2014 all about men not being much smarter or more useful than domestic pets anyway \u2014\u00a0and which leads you to wonder what she could do with a full Lady and the Tramp<\/em> redo. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nA Rare \u201cWe Almost Broke Up Again Last Night\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tCarpenter said she\u2019d never sung Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> deep cut \u201cWe Almost Broke Up Again Last Night\u201d before including it in her Friday Coachella set \u2014\u00a0not sure why it\u2019d never made the grade previously, but the performance and arrangement sounded fantastic, peaking with a particularly ripping live guitar solo. \u201cIf any one has ever been in a relationship that started and ended, then started, then ended again\u2026.\u201d Carpenter continued, \u201cI\u2019m singing his song directly to you.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u201cMy Man\u201d on Treadmills<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother MBF<\/em> headlight, \u201cMy Man on Willpower\u201d was memorably presented by Carpenter on Friday night with the help of moving walkways, which allowed her to do a little fun Jamiroquai-style maneuvering, but more importantly allowed her to visually capture the song\u2019s themes of one-step-forward, two-steps-back relationships with men. (And at the end, the thing pitched Carpenter off the stage altogether, which also felt appropriate.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2026Was That Actually Barry Manilow?<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIn the midst of a \u201cFeather\u201d that had already upped the disco quotient to Studio 54 levels, Carpenter took a dance break to be serenaded by a \u201cCopabacabana\u201d-quoting interlude that replaced that 1979 classic\u2019s \u201cAt the Copa\/ Copacabana\u201d chorus with \u201cSabrina\/ She\u2019s at Coachella!\u201d No word yet on if the interlude was performed by original singer Barry Manilow himself \u2014\u00a0singing has sadly been more of a struggle for Manilow lately \u2014 though it didn\u2019t sound not<\/em> like him, and we wouldn\u2019t put it past her to go directly to the source there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nWill Ferrell Saves the Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe handful of actor cameos in Carpenter\u2019s set were a bit of a mixed bag \u2014\u00a0the intro with Sam Elliott was an effective scene-setter, but the Susan Sarandon monologue went way too long and was plagued with audio issues that made her words largely incomprehensible to begin with. The most fun walk-on came from Will Ferrell, inexplicably showing up as the handyman to fix Carpenter\u2019s electrical issues after an end-of-song short-circuit (\u201ctypical Coachella\u201d). The funniest part was undoubtedly was Ferrell trying and failing to light a cigarette in the wind, before giving up and declaring, \u201cSmoking is bad for you anyway.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nAn \u201cEspresso\u201d Anniversary<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cWell two years ago, I wanted to put out a little song before Coachella,\u201d Carpenter reminded the audience, as a familiar combination of bubbling bass and synth blankets started to emerge from her backing band. \u201cAnd now, I think you might know the f\u2013king words.\u201d Just might indeed: \u201cEspresso\u201d has all but cemented itself in the all-time pop canon over the past 24 months, and it sounded just as great \u2014\u00a0and was just as fun to sing along to \u2014\u00a0as a victory lap on Friday night as it did as the most exciting new pop song in the world two years earlier. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA \u201cTears\u201d Waterfall<\/h2>\n\n\n\tWe\u2019ve spent a year with tears running down Carpenter\u2019s thighs \u2014 resulting from her, um, emotional overflow when her guy performs basic socialized human tasks \u2014\u00a0but on Friday, those tears turned into a full geyser. At the (ahem) climax of the Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> single, Carpenter was perched on a chair atop a full waterfall, giving the appearance of said tears coming rather fast and furious. It was certainly an unforgettable visual that she left us with as she drove away through the Coachella crowd to the strains of Kool & The Gang\u2019s \u201cHollywood Swingin\u2019,\u201d likely off to be disappointed by another romantic partner and end up headlining the moon in 2028 as a result. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/sabrina-carpenter-coachella-2026-review-best-moments\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2270658303-e1775899214414.jpg?w=1024″] \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m headlining Coachella!\u201d Sabrina Carpenter proclaimed partway through her performance doing exactly that on Friday night (Apr. 10) of the festival\u2019s first weekend. \u201cI mean\u2026 I can a little bit. But it sounds nicer to say that.\u201d Probably more than a little bit: Carpenter actually predicted this almost exactly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1877081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tIt showed the high level of confidence Carpenter was playing with on Friday night that she burned one of her two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits just a few songs into her set. \u201cManchild\u201d appeared first in a sort of Disney\u2019ed up instrumental interlude, and then in full as Sabrina frolicked with a number of backup dancers dressed as poodles and Dalmatians. It\u2019s a new visual theme for Carpenter, but one that works pretty well with the song \u2014 all about men not being much smarter or more useful than domestic pets anyway \u2014\u00a0and which leads you to wonder what she could do with a full Lady and the Tramp<\/em> redo. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tCarpenter said she\u2019d never sung Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> deep cut \u201cWe Almost Broke Up Again Last Night\u201d before including it in her Friday Coachella set \u2014\u00a0not sure why it\u2019d never made the grade previously, but the performance and arrangement sounded fantastic, peaking with a particularly ripping live guitar solo. \u201cIf any one has ever been in a relationship that started and ended, then started, then ended again\u2026.\u201d Carpenter continued, \u201cI\u2019m singing his song directly to you.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tAnother MBF<\/em> headlight, \u201cMy Man on Willpower\u201d was memorably presented by Carpenter on Friday night with the help of moving walkways, which allowed her to do a little fun Jamiroquai-style maneuvering, but more importantly allowed her to visually capture the song\u2019s themes of one-step-forward, two-steps-back relationships with men. (And at the end, the thing pitched Carpenter off the stage altogether, which also felt appropriate.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tIn the midst of a \u201cFeather\u201d that had already upped the disco quotient to Studio 54 levels, Carpenter took a dance break to be serenaded by a \u201cCopabacabana\u201d-quoting interlude that replaced that 1979 classic\u2019s \u201cAt the Copa\/ Copacabana\u201d chorus with \u201cSabrina\/ She\u2019s at Coachella!\u201d No word yet on if the interlude was performed by original singer Barry Manilow himself \u2014\u00a0singing has sadly been more of a struggle for Manilow lately \u2014 though it didn\u2019t sound not<\/em> like him, and we wouldn\u2019t put it past her to go directly to the source there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tThe handful of actor cameos in Carpenter\u2019s set were a bit of a mixed bag \u2014\u00a0the intro with Sam Elliott was an effective scene-setter, but the Susan Sarandon monologue went way too long and was plagued with audio issues that made her words largely incomprehensible to begin with. The most fun walk-on came from Will Ferrell, inexplicably showing up as the handyman to fix Carpenter\u2019s electrical issues after an end-of-song short-circuit (\u201ctypical Coachella\u201d). The funniest part was undoubtedly was Ferrell trying and failing to light a cigarette in the wind, before giving up and declaring, \u201cSmoking is bad for you anyway.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\t\u201cWell two years ago, I wanted to put out a little song before Coachella,\u201d Carpenter reminded the audience, as a familiar combination of bubbling bass and synth blankets started to emerge from her backing band. \u201cAnd now, I think you might know the f\u2013king words.\u201d Just might indeed: \u201cEspresso\u201d has all but cemented itself in the all-time pop canon over the past 24 months, and it sounded just as great \u2014\u00a0and was just as fun to sing along to \u2014\u00a0as a victory lap on Friday night as it did as the most exciting new pop song in the world two years earlier. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tWe\u2019ve spent a year with tears running down Carpenter\u2019s thighs \u2014 resulting from her, um, emotional overflow when her guy performs basic socialized human tasks \u2014\u00a0but on Friday, those tears turned into a full geyser. At the (ahem) climax of the Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> single, Carpenter was perched on a chair atop a full waterfall, giving the appearance of said tears coming rather fast and furious. It was certainly an unforgettable visual that she left us with as she drove away through the Coachella crowd to the strains of Kool & The Gang\u2019s \u201cHollywood Swingin\u2019,\u201d likely off to be disappointed by another romantic partner and end up headlining the moon in 2028 as a result. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/sabrina-carpenter-coachella-2026-review-best-moments\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2270658303-e1775899214414.jpg?w=1024″] \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m headlining Coachella!\u201d Sabrina Carpenter proclaimed partway through her performance doing exactly that on Friday night (Apr. 10) of the festival\u2019s first weekend. \u201cI mean\u2026 I can a little bit. But it sounds nicer to say that.\u201d Probably more than a little bit: Carpenter actually predicted this almost exactly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1877081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Rare \u201cWe Almost Broke Up Again Last Night\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cMy Man\u201d on Treadmills<\/h2>\n
\u2026Was That Actually Barry Manilow?<\/h2>\n
Will Ferrell Saves the Day<\/h2>\n
An \u201cEspresso\u201d Anniversary<\/h2>\n
A \u201cTears\u201d Waterfall<\/h2>\n