Sabrina Carpenter teamed up with Dolly Parton for a country-tinged take on “Please Please Please” — complete with a new music video that seemingly references Carpenter’s ex Barry Keoghan.
Carpenter, 25, enlisted Parton, 79, for the duet, released on Friday, February 14, a.k.a. Valentine’s Day, as part of the Short n’ Sweet deluxe edition. The new video seems to be a direct sequel to last year’s original, which famously starred Keoghan, 32, as Carpenter’s love interest. (The duo were dating in real life at the time but split in December 2024 after nearly one year together.)
In the new clip, Parton and Carpenter are out for a drive in a pickup truck, but it soon becomes clear that this isn’t your average jaunt — they’ve got a big bag of cash in the back and a shovel. When they hear a police siren somewhere behind them, they start to get nervous, but the cruiser passes without incident.
At the end of the video, viewers learn why they were so nervous: they’ve also got a body back there, and he’s wearing the same outfit that Keoghan was in the original “Please Please Please” visual. His head is covered by a burlap sack, muffling his cries, and while he’s got enough energy left to kick his chained-up feet, that shovel hints he may not be long for the aboveground world.
The first “Please Please Please” video ended with Carpenter tying up Keoghan, whose character failed to live up to her pleas in the lyrics: “I heard that you’re an actor, so act like a stand-up guy / Whatever devil’s inside you, don’t let him out tonight.”
Carpenter hasn’t publicly addressed her split from Keoghan, but she’s been very vocal about her collaboration with Parton.
“Dolly and me singing in a pickup truck!!!!!! I am so honored to have one of my biggest idols on a song that means so much to me,” the newly minted Grammy winner wrote via Instagram on Friday. “Love you forever @dollyparton.”
Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter had a short — but sweet — romance. The Saltburn actor and “Nonsense” singer sparked romance rumors in December 2023 when the Daily Mail published photos of the duo on an outing in Los Angeles. During her Disney Channel days, Carpenter was in a relationship with Bradley Steven Perry, which […]
In a behind-the-scenes video Parton shared via Instagram, the two singers shared a hug and marveled at their similarly petite heights. “Turns out, two things can be short and sweet 😉,” Parton quipped in the caption.
The country legend also joked that she’d have to make “Please Please Please” a little bit more PG-13 for her audience. (In the final version of the duet, the line “Don’t embarrass me, motherf—er” becomes “Don’t embarrass me like the others.”)
“You and your dirty words,” Parton teased Carpenter. “I can’t say those words!”
Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe) is out now.
