Sabrina Carpenter celebrated Halloween at the Short n' Sweet tour stop in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday (October 31) and rocked not one, not two, but three different costumes.
In addition to dressing up as a Playboy bunny and Tinker Bell, Carpenter also rocked a black cat and curly blonde hair to channel Olivia Newton-John's character Sandy Olsson in the beloved 1978 film. Grease. During the segment of the show where the 25-year-old pop star plays a “Spin the Bottle” game to choose a cover to sing, she ended up performing John's “Hopelessly Devoted to You.”
On video circulating on social media, the entire crowd at the American Airlines Center sang along with Carpenter as she effortlessly belted out the chorus. “But now there's nowhere to hide/ After you pushed my love aside/ I'm out of my mind/ Desperately devoted to you,” she sang.
This is hardly the first time Carpenter has taken on the classic Grease ballad, as she performed “Hopelessly Devoted to You” several times throughout her run as the headliner on Taylor Swift's Eras tour.
Newton-John also starred alongside John Travolta in the blockbuster Greasewhich was the highest-grossing film of 1978. The film's soundtrack spent 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and earned a Grammy nomination for album of the Year. “Hopelessly Devoted to You” received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. In April 1979, Newton-John performed the song on the Academy Awards telecast.
Newton-John died in August 2022 at the age of 73 after a decades-long battle with breast cancer.
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