Sabrina Carpenter Stuns in Purple on 2025 MTV VMAs Purple Carpet

Sabrina Carpenter stole the present together with her daring take a look at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.

The singer, 26, turned heads as she walked the pink carpet forward of the Sunday, September 7, awards present at UBS Area in New York.

Carpenter surprised in a pink, long-sleeved gown product of lace. The robe's floral embellishment included sequins, which left her glowing on the pink carpet.  She accomplished the look with a lavender fuzzy boa. Her hair was styled down in her signature voluminous curls.

Carpenter is nominated for eight VMAs, together with Video of the 12 months, Finest Pop, Finest Route, Finest Cinematography, Finest Enhancing and Finest Visible Results for “Manchild,” Finest Album for Brief n' Candy and Finest Pop Artist. She can also be scheduled to carry out in the course of the ceremony.

Carpenter received her first VMA in September 2024 when she took house Track of the 12 months for “Espresso.” She additionally carried out on the awards present for the primary time final 12 months, singing a medley of her hits “Please Please Please,” “Style” and “Espresso.”

Forward of the 2025 VMAs, Carpenter launched her new album, Man's Finest Buddy, on August 29, which options her June single, “Manchild.”

“I didn't plan on releasing a brand new file nonetheless when inspiration strikes, I am going to the studio, and when it doesn't, I nonetheless go to the studio,” she wrote of the album in a June electronic mail to followers. “However fortunately life was actually taking place to me and inspiration struck!”

She added: “I attempted to not overthink the method this time, I felt so comfortable making Man's Finest Buddy that I felt prefer it was a present that shouldn't be taken as a right as each inch got here collectively so effortlessly, the place I'd bang my head to crack quite a few codes. This one felt like driving a motorcycle!”

Shortly after the album announcement, Carpenter fired again at critics of her music's attractive content material in her Rolling Stone cowl story.

“It's all the time so humorous to me when individuals complain,” she mentioned within the profile printed in June. “They're like, ‘All she does is sing about this.' However these are the songs that you just've made standard. Clearly you love intercourse. You're obsessive about it.”

Later that month, Carpenter responded to backlash she obtained for her Man's Finest Buddy cowl art work, which confirmed her on all fours as a person pulled her hair.

“Does she have a character exterior of intercourse?” one X person requested in June.

Carpenter reacted to the barb together with her signature humor, replying, “Woman sure and it's goooooood.”