During singer’s second night at BST, she had fans howling at the moon before surprise performance
Sabrina Carpenter performed two back-to-back nights at BST Hyde Park in London this weekend and at tonight’s show, she brought out surprise guests Duran Duran.
Before her guests joined her onstage on Sunday, she had the audience literally howling at the moon. After the crowd practiced their howls, Carpenter said, “I also thought it might be fun if I brought out some friends of mine from the U.K. I’m going to need you guys to put that howling to good use. But everybody please give it up and make so much noise for the legendary Duran Duran.”
The band’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor came out to cheers before launching into their 1982 Rio single, “Hungry Like the Wolf.” Le Bon and Taylor took the reins while Carpenter sang harmonies, and she later led the second verse before everyone had the chance to summon their best wolf howls toward the end of the song.
Carpenter is set to headline Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 3 before she drops her new album, Man’s Best Friend, on Aug. 29. It’s the follow-up to 2024’s Short n’ Sweet, the album on which she’s still currently touring. The second leg of her North American tour runs through November. In her July-August cover story for Rolling Stone, she explained why she didn’t want to wait long between album cycles.
“If I really wanted to, I could have stretched out Short n’ Sweet much, much longer,” she said. “But I’m at that point in my life where I’m like, ‘Wait a second, there’s no rules.’ If I’m inspired to write and make something new, I would rather do that. Why would I wait three years just for the sake of waiting three years? It’s all about what feels right. I’m learning to listen to that a lot more, instead of what is perceived as the right or wrong move.”