Trent Reznor names Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ as the best song of 2024

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Trent Reznor has declared Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping hit ‘Espresso’ as the best song of 2024.The Nine Inch Nails frontman was asked for his pick by radio station Alt 98.7 on the red carpet at the Golden Globes last weekend (January 5)“I’m gonna have to go with ‘Espresso’,” the musician replied, much to the interviewer’s surprise.

Watch the moment below.A post shared by ALT 98.7 LA's NEW ALTERNATIVE (@alt987fm)‘Espresso’ was released in April last year, from Carpenter’s sixth album ‘Short N’ Sweet’, and is up for Record Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at this year’s Grammys.

It has already picked up the MTV Video Music Award for Song Of The Year.The song also narrowly missed out on being named as Spotify’s most streamed song of 2024, coming in second place behind Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds Of A Feather’.Carpenter recently said that upon its release, she felt she had “literally no idea” if the public would like the song.“I remember deciding to put this song out in the beginning of summer and thinking espresso, coffee is kind of more of a fall beverage,” she said. “I really didn’t know if it would connect, but the sentiment and the sound of the song and the confidence that it kind of just carries along with it was something that I really believed in.”She continued: “So I had literally no idea that anyone would like it, but I liked it, and that was kind of all that mattered to me in that moment, and something I try to remember over and over again.”It is not the first time that Reznor has spoken up for a modern pop song – in 2023, he said Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ made him “tear up” when he heard his daughter sing along to it.Reznor and musical partner Atticus Ross left the Golden Globes with gold after winning the.