Sabrina Carpenter winks at Tarantino

The golden period of. continues Sabrina Carpenter. A few days ago, Friday 10 April, she was the headliner of the first evening of Coachella Festival 2026. The Grammy winner for Best Pop Solo Performance 2025 transformed the festival into a personal Hollywood show: the Sabchella it was a riot of sets, dancers and retro atmospheres. But performing at Coachella isn’t Carpenter’s only call to Hollywood (a Quentin Tarantinospecifically).

Sabrina opened the concert with “House Tour“, the latest single from the album “Man’s Best Friend” (here is Rockol’s review). A few hours after the opening of the pre-order, the 45 rpm single of the song (which will be available from 26 June) went sold out. The single has already exceeded 300 million global streams since its release, while the video – published not even a week ago – already has more than 14 million views on YouTube. To contribute to the indisputable success of the video clip, there is also a certain taste Tarantinian.

Directed by Sabrina Carpenter herself together with the actress Margaret Qualleythe video features both alongside Madelyn Cline. The film follows the trio as they move inside a luxurious Hollywood villa amidst excess and luxury, until the police raid which gives way to a daring escape in a pink van. A well-known fetishist, Quentin would approve of these 3 minutes and 34 seconds starting from the very first frames: a close-up shot of Carpenter’s feet, who changes his shoes (strictly with vertiginous heels) and begins by saying: “Take your shoes off”.

Tarantino has always had a weakness for the girl gang powerfor groups of dangerous and cool women (from the famous “Kill Bill” to “Death Proof”). In “House Tour,” Carpenter, Qualley and Cline are criminal accomplices who pull the strings of the game with cocky confidence; Qualley, moreover, played Pussycat in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”, Tarantino’s latest film, theeaster eggs perfect of the textbook Tarantino quote.

The pulp key is also found in the shots: there are many from the bottom up, just like in Tarantino’s cinema, which made the trunk shot (cinematic technique involving a low-up shot, shot from inside the trunk of a car) one of his trademarks, as well as his rapid and sudden zooms on a detail, a stylistic feature of the 70s action films which Quentin also draws inspiration from.

You can’t help but think of the director of “Pulp Fiction” when the weather smells of noir irony. The video is based precisely on the juxtaposition of lightness (pop music, banal chatter between friends) with acts of violence or crime: there is the contrast between the 80s synth pop base and the theft of valuable possessions in the mansion (including, of course, a Grammy), or the road crime committed before the credits.

There photograph of the video uses extremely saturated and warm colors. It’s the kind of cinematic vintage typical of, say, the aforementioned “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”: blondes are golden, reds are scarlet, and the film grain makes everything look much more like a genre film than a standard music video.