Watch Poppy’s charming cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Taste’ for ‘Like A Version’
Poppy has performed her take on Sabrina Carpenter‘s ‘Taste’ for triple j‘s Like A Version series – you can watch it below.
triple j has shared Poppy’s full performance for its Live A Version series, which sees musicians performing covers of other artists’ work, albeit with their own stylings. The performance – which also includes a masked Jordan Fish – was recorded during her recent tour in Australia with Bad Omens.
Speaking on why she chose the song, Poppy explained: “I love her voice and I think she’s very pretty. And the song is really fun to sing, so here we are.”
For the performance, Poppy also pays homage to Australian band The Divinyls, interpolating their song ‘I Touch Myself’ after ‘Taste”s chorus. Poppy explained why she chose to honour The Divinyls: “The first time I heard [‘Taste’], I thought it sounded like ‘I Touch Myself’, which is also my favourite karaoke song, so combining it made sense.”
Poppy’s take on ‘Taste’ also sees her cut down the track to just over two-and-a-half minutes. Check it out below.
This isn’t the first time that Poppy and Sabrina Carpenter have crossed paths in a way. Back in 2019, the two musicians were seen together at the Billboard Music Awards, and were photographed together on the red carpet.
Poppy’s cover was uploaded shortly after both Poppy and Carpenter were nominated at the Grammy Awards earlier this week. Poppy was nominated for Best Metal Performance for ‘Suffocate’ with Knocked Loose, while Carpenter – who also performed at the awards – was nominated for several awards.
Poppy ultimately lost to Gojira, while Carpenter took home the awards for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album – you can see the full list of Grammys 2025 winners here.
Since the Grammys, Poppy has been making headlines for an interesting case of mistaken identity. On the red carpet, fellow metal musician Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox was misidentified by a reporter as Poppy, and conducted an interview with LaPlante who was put on the spot and had to answer questions meant for Poppy.
LaPlante decided to go along with the awkward error and answer as if she were Poppy. After giving the interviewer a look of confusion, LaPlante responded: “I am Poppy, and I am really happy to be here nominated with Knocked Loose. I hope it’s me [who wins] or Spiritbox and Courtney.”
Now, after sharing a snippet of the interview on Instagram as part of her Grammys post, Poppy has released a special new T-shirt on her merch store. The black-and-white tee features a printed name tag reading: “Hello, I am Poppy.”
Elsewhere, Spotify has jumped on the viral Grammys moment by using a photo of LaPlante on its Kickass Metal Playlist, along with the note: “Poppy on top of today’s best Metal playlist.”
Knocked Loose and Poppy’s ‘Suffocate’ landed at Number 17 on NME‘s 50 best songs of 2024 list at the end of last year. In November, they played an epic rendition of the collaborative track together on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
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