Trent Reznor has declared Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping hit ‘Espresso’ as the perfect track of 2024.
The 9 Inch Nails frontman was requested for his decide by radio station Alt 98.7 on the purple carpet on the Golden Globes final weekend (January 5)
“I’m gonna should go along with ‘Espresso’,” the musician replied, a lot to the interviewer’s shock. Watch the second under.
‘Espresso’ was launched in April final yr, from Carpenter’s sixth album ‘Brief N’ Candy’, and is up for Document Of The 12 months and Finest Pop Solo Efficiency at this yr’s Grammys. It has already picked up the MTV Video Music Award for Track Of The 12 months.
The track additionally narrowly missed out on being named as Spotify’s most streamed track of 2024, coming in second place behind Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds Of A Feather’.
Carpenter lately stated that upon its launch, she felt she had “actually no thought” if the general public would love the track.
“I bear in mind deciding to place this track out to start with of summer time and considering espresso, espresso is type of extra of a fall beverage,” she stated. “I actually didn’t know if it will join, however the sentiment and the sound of the track and the arrogance that it type of simply carries together with it was one thing that I actually believed in.”
She continued: “So I had actually no concept that anybody would love it, however I preferred it, and that was type of all that mattered to me in that second, and one thing I attempt to bear in mind over and over.”
It isn’t the primary time that Reznor has spoken up for a contemporary pop track – in 2023, he stated Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ made him “tear up” when he heard his daughter sing alongside to it.
Reznor and musical associate Atticus Ross left the Golden Globes with gold after successful the Finest Authentic Rating award for his or her work on Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. They’re additionally shortlisted on the Oscars this yr for each Finest Authentic Rating and Finest Authentic Track.
The pair have continued to trace at new music from 9 Inch Nails too, with Ross saying final yr: “I do really feel enthusiastic about beginning on the following report. I feel we’re in a spot now the place we type of have an thought.”
Extra lately, Reznor shared that the group have been “taking the inspiration we’ve garnered and funnelling it right into a 9 Inch Nails venture, which we’re engaged on now. We’re able to be again within the driver’s seat,” confirming that new materials is within the works.
A brand new album would mark the band’s first since 2020’s shock ambient double LP ‘Ghosts V-VI‘ which adopted 2018’s ‘Unhealthy Witch’.
They’ve additionally been confirmed to be engaged on the soundtrack on the upcoming movie Tron: Ares for Disney.
