Sabrina Carpenter's Stockholm Show Divides Critics

"Professional feminine pop dream" or "KAJ-vibes on stage"? The critics' opinions are divided, but no one gives Sabrina Carpenter full marks for her first concert at Avicii arena in Stockholm.

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Sabrina Carpenter's Stockholm Show Divides Critics
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"A professional feminine pop dream", summarizes SVT's critic Moa Lindstedt in her review of the American star's Sweden performance. However, she does not think that the former Disney star's many allusions to sex are entirely unproblematic.

In Sabrina Carpenter's case, it works a bit like that, there are still quite a few children in the audience, says Lindstedt, but adds that the star herself has never said she wants to be a babysitter.

Aftonbladet's Markus Larsson is not as critical: compared to what Madonna or Miley Cyrus have done on stage, Carpenter is "about as controversial as popcorn", he writes and gives the concert a four.

Dagens Nyheter's Mattias Dahlström thinks that the entire concert, including the setting – a kind of fake Hollywood villa – is designed to be "fun". The concert becomes, in his eyes, as much a musical, but the song material is not quite enough for a full performance, he thinks and gives an average grade of three.

Svenska Dagbladet's reviewer Nike Rydberg is even more negative. The grade becomes a two, despite Sabrina Carpenter probably being "our next big world star". The artist wants too much at once, thinks Rydberg and concludes with the words: "When the confetti rain falls, it feels like KAJ has won Mello".

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