Sabrina Carpenter’s new music video gives fans a taste of Jenna Ortega’s scream queen reputation—and an extra short and sweet surprise: a kiss, amid rumors Carpenter has called it quits with actor Barry Keoghan.
The “Espresso” singer25, was joined by the 21-year-old “Beetlejuice” star in the music video for “Taste.”
The video — which was released Friday along with Carpenter’s sixth studio album, “Short n’ Sweet” — opens on a bed draped in a lacy pink quilt, on which sit several weapons. Carpenter then waltzes into a mansion to kill the woman in bed with her boyfriend, only for Ortega to interrupt and shoot the singer.
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Carpenter then falls out the window and is impaled by the fence. That’s where the video comes from — which also features one tribute to the “Kill Bill” nurse — sees the stars trying to beat each other to death in increasingly graphic ways.
As the “Wednesday” star makes out with her mutual boyfriend, the man suddenly transforms into Carpenter, with the two women kissing as Carpenter sings “You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissing you.”
Carpenter on shared a clip of himself, bloodied, and Ortega — holding a blood-soaked chainsaw — posing to the tune of Talking Heads’ 1977 hit, “Psycho Killer.”
The steamy and gory video and album, released amid the chat Carpenter and “Saltburn” star Keoghan, 31, broke up last week.
The “Banshees of Inisherin” actor played the love interest in the video for Carpenter’s, “Please please please,” which was released in June and features the lyrics, “I heard you’re an actor / so act like a stand up guy” – an obvious allusion to Keoghan himself.
Keoghan was also seen supporting Carpenter as she served as Taylor Swift’s opener on several legs of the Eras Tour.
Despite several sightings during and after the tour, and rumors of a split, a source said People last weekend that Carpenter and Keoghan — who liked her sultry August 16th post – is just “on and off.”