Carpenter also performed her own hits, including “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “House Tour” on Monday night (May 4).
Sabrina Carpenter is checking items off her pop icon bucket list at a rapid pace. After teaming up with Madonna on the bubbling dance track “Bring Your Love” from the Queen of Pop’s upcoming Confessions II album last week, Carpenter ticked off another Mt. Olympus of diva collabs at the Met Gala on Monday night (May 4) when she took the stage with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks for a meditative cover of her band’s legendary 1975 ballad “Landslide.”
In a video posted by the Met Museum, Nicks took the stage first, dressed in a bewitching glittery black gown accented by translucent fingerless gloves, emerging like the classical work of art she is after a pair of assistants pulled down a sheet covering a giant picture frame, with the singer backlit like an Impressionist masterpiece. Over gently picked acoustic guitar, Nicks sang the opening lines, “I took my love, I took it down/ Climbed a mountain and I turned around/ And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills/ ‘Til the landslide brought me down.”
Then, Carpenter, wearing a shimmering golden gown, emerged from the dark and gently took Nicks’ hand as she cooed the lines, “Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?/ Can the child within my heart rise above?/ Can I sail through the changin’ ocean tides?/ Can I handle the seasons of my life?”
After the last line, Nicks, 77, sagely told Carpenter, 26, “I don’t know … we don’t know.”
The women then joined forces for the third verse, their voices perfectly melded as they sang, “Well, I’ve been afraid of changin’/ ‘Cause I’ve built my life around you/ But time makes you bolder/ Children get older/ And I’m gettin’ older, too/ Yes, I’m gettin’ older, too.” While the A++-list of guests could be heard chatting over the first half of the song, by the time the two women hit the final refrain it sounded as if the room as gone silent to properly take in the superstar summit.
Nicks kept Carpenter out to give her a hand on Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” and then also performed “Gypsy” and her 1981 solo hit “Edge of Seventeen.”
Carpenter wasn’t done, either. The singer, who earlier in the evening walked the red carpet in a stunning Dior dress by Jonathan Anderson that paid homage to Audrey Hepburn’s 1954 movie Sabrina by wrapping the singer in film strips from the movie, also performed her own hits, including “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “House Tour” in a colorful pop art-inspired dress after being carried to the stage by four tuxedo attendants.
