Sabrina Carpenter lures Barry Keoghan out of the bathwater for 'Please Please Please' video's fiery love story
Real-life loves Carpenter and Keoghan costar in the video inspired by "historically and famously chaotic couples."
Sabrina Carpenter and boyfriend Barry Keoghan can't get enough of each other in the new video for her song "Please Please Please."
Released Thursday, the clip (below) depicts the two as a couple who meet in jail — she's getting out, as he walks by — and can't stay apart. He stays behind bars, so she visits, and she's there to pick him up more than once, as he's released.
Carpenter's old Hollywood–inspired leading lady is there, too, to nurse Keoghan's wounds after he's beat up by a pack of guys in a backroom fight and to give him a "you shouldn't have done that" look when he stuffs a man in her trunk or robs a bank. Ultimately, Carpenter's character shows him who's boss, when she teases him with handcuffs, then appears to put them on him for real. Keoghan's bad boy also ends up with tape over his mouth, which Carpenter kisses, before walking away.
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The idea is that someone is asking her lover not to let her down this time. "I heard that you're an actor," she sings in one verse, "so act like a stand-up guy. Whatever devil's inside you, don't let him out tonight."
The chorus: "Please, please, please don't prove 'em right. Please, please, please don't bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice. Heartbreak is one thing. My ego's another. I beg you, don't embarrass me, motherf---er. Please, please, please."
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The singer and actress' latest picks up where her video for "Espresso," the song she released in April, left off.
"I ended the last video getting arrested, so naturally I thought it would be satisfying to start the 'Please, Please, Please' video in jail," Carpenter told Vogue. "I liked the idea of falling in love with a convict and being shocked and embarrassed every time he commits crimes. I was sooo lucky to get Barry Keoghan in the video cause he is just magic on screen."
The video's director, Bardia Zeinali, told the fashion magazine that she looked at "historically and famously chaotic couples. Pamela [Anderson] and Tommy Lee, Sid and Nancy, Madonna and Dennis Rodman, and then in films Natural Born Killers and a bit of Thelma & Louise. These stories about two people who are on the run or on the road, the dynamic shifts in which one person becomes more submissive and the other more dominant, where the accomplice becomes the person in control and in power, which is what happens in the video. She’s getting dragged into these chaotic situations and in the end there’s a final moment, this last straw, where she takes control."
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In real life, Carpenter went public with the Saltburn star in the first few months of this year, most notably in March, when they walked the red carpet together at the high-profile Vanity Fair party following the Oscars.
"Please Please Please" is on Carpenter's upcoming album, Short n' Sweet, which is out Aug. 23.
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