Say you can’t sleep, baby, I know that’s that Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso, Sabrina Carpenter‘s signature drink. Closing out a year that has been amped up on caffeine, the pop phenom has teamed up with Dunkin for a fated collaboration.
In a new commercial, Carpenter takes another innuendo-filed victory lap with some ass-shaking — oh wait, sorry, no. It’s “Ess-” shaking, as in “Espresso” and as in Sabrina’s Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso. “I just love shaking that ess,” the singer says in the clip. “Been shaking that ess for hours. You should try it.”
The guests at a Dunkin HQ launch party for the iced beverage take her up on it. So does Gam Gam, a grandmother who knows a thing or two about Ess (and chest) shaking. “Oh, shake that ess kind of sounds like shake that a—,” Carpenter quips before being cut off by a Dunkin censor bar.
Sabrina’s Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso is hand-shaken to combine espresso, oat milk, and brown sugar flavor. The new addition to the menu will hopefully ease some of the stress Carpenter has felt around ordering at coffee shops this year. “I do have to question ordering [espressos] a lot now,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in August. “They’re just waiting for me to say it, and I’m like, ‘Tea.’”
Carpenter has been having fun with “Espresso” and its accompanying studio album Short n’ Sweet, which does its fair share of winking, nodding, and shaking, too. The single accounts for three of the singer’s six Grammy Award nominations. It’s up for Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Remixed Recording for Mark Ronson x FNZ’s “Working Late Remix.”
“My mom has been like, ‘Do you feel crazy right now?’” Carpenter told Rolling Stone earlier this year of the explosive reaction to the record. “I just love that people get my sense of humor.”
