The kiss between Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega in ‘Taste’, the tribute to ‘Death Becomes Her’

Sabrina Carpenter has dropped the horror-inspired music video for her new single “Taste”, a blood-and-gore production that heavily references the movie “Death Becomes Her.”

She launched the video soon after the release of “Short n’ Sweet”, her sixth studio album. The former Disney star already has a tour planned to support her second album with Island Records. Proceeds will benefit the LGBTQ+ community.

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‘Taste’, a tribute to ‘Death Becomes Her’

The video where Carpenter co-stars with Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega is a nod to the 1992 cult classic, with outfits and scenes calling to mind those of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.

The storyline involves various attempts by both Carpenter and Ortega’s characters to kill each other over the affections of a man.

They are unsuccessful in their efforts as they both manage to return from the dead. This is exactly what happened between Streep and Hawn who were also fighting over a man and un-killable because they had become immortal.

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Murderous cat fight

The video’s first murder attempt takes place with Carpenter breaking into her ex-boyfriend’s house with a machete and hacking what she thinks is his new girlfriend, played by Ortega.

However, it was a decoy, and Ortega gets her turn by shooting the singer with a rifle, the impact of which sends Carpenter falling out the window and impaling her on a fence.

This is followed by more gory fighting between the two, with a shower scene where Carpenter rips back a curtain while holding a knife paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”

The back-and-forth murders are brought to a halt when the two find themselves kissing by the pool, after which Ortega mistakenly murders the object of their affections with a chainsaw.

The two women decide during the funeral of their shared man that they were better off as friends than bloodthirsty enemies.