Saturday night live airs at 11:30pm every week and continues well past midnight, so the cast and crew will probably appreciate some Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso” to keep them awake when she makes her musical guest debut later this month. As announced on Thursday (May 2), the 24-year-old pop star is scheduled to appear on the show's upcoming season 49 finale on May 18 hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal, with Vampire Weekend set to take the stage a week before.
Rock band 'A-Punk' is scheduled for SNLThe May 11 episode, which Maya Rudolph will lead for her third time as host of the comedy show. The news comes just under a month after Vampire Weekend released their latest album, Only God was above uswhich debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200. It will mark the Grammy-winning quartet's fourth time on the schedule.
A week later, Carpenter — fresh off her first Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit with “Espresso,” which recently debuted at No. 7 — will bring her proven Eras tour and Coachella skills to 30 Rock. Gyllenhaal, like Rudolph, is hosting for the third time.
The announcement comes just days ahead of Dua Lipa's upcoming double stint as host and musical guest this weekend. SNL. In a recent promo clip for the episode, the singer — whose new album Radical Optimism drops Friday (May 3) — helped cast member Chloe Fineman perfect her pop star impression, with a little luck.
“It's close enough, you're going to nail it,” Lipa tells the comedian in the sketch, handing her the mic to take over musical guest duties. “I'm actually going to be focusing on my sketches, so I thought maybe you could do the show for me. I'm going to go get dinner.”
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