SNL’s Jane Wickline Sings as Sabrina Carpenter, Expressing a Desire For More Queer Rumors
On the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, newcomer Jane Wickline sings a song from the perspective of Sabrina Carpenter, lamenting that there are never gay rumors about her. She mentions how Taylor Swift gets that treatment, how Harry Styles wearing rainbow pants was the talk of the town, but Sabrina Carpenter made out with Jenna Ortega “passionately” in a music video, and everyone just took her at face value when she said it was a metaphor for an ex-boyfriend. She complains, as Sabrina, that she’s the only straight pop star taken for her word and she wants people to discuss if she could be bi or pretending to be straight, even though she’s not. She wants the mystique of the POSSIBILITY. Wickline also points out that Sabrina Carpenter made out with a girl alien at the VMAs and covered Chappell Roan, and yet, and I quote, “NOTHING!” And, as Wickline mentions in the song, Carpenter even has a Christmas album called “Fruitcake.”
Not only was this SNL song hilariously written and performed — I personally was a fan of the poetic line, “I leave a trail of breadcrumbs then I leave a trail of loaves of bread,” and the subtle “please, please, please” reference — but it’s also funny because it has a hint of truth to it.
In June of this year, gay tiktokers took to their podcast and called Sabrina Carpenter the straightest person they’d ever seen. While never directly responding to it, Sabrina Carpenter did, soon thereafter, cover a Chappell Roan song and sing a song with the line, “God forgot my gay awakening.” The Jenna Ortega music video came out in August. Plus, in her Netflix special for the Fruitcake album, she duets with Chappell Roan. As if to say exactly what Jane Wickman was implying – I’m not gay but I’m sad you don’t think I could be.
And honestly, I think that’s beautiful.
I cannot find any proof online that Jane Wickline is queer, but I have no doubt queer people had a hand in writing this sketch, because it was so on the nose and hilarious. It checks all my boxes – wordplay, hilarious delivery, gay jokes that don’t make queer people the butt of them, and teasing straight people. A win-win in my book.
You can check out the sketch here:
More Queer Pop Culture Links For You:
+ Queer icons Angelina Jolie and Cynthia Erivo interviewed each other for Actors on Actors
+ Stephanie Beatriz’s latest show Man on the Inside got renewed by Netflix for a second season
+ A surprise Carpool Karaoke dropped, featuring Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan, and Dua Lipa, which is a great lineup for me, personally
+ The White Lotus Season 3 Trailer is here
+ Margaret Cho is releasing an album soon and a single from it, Lucky Gift, is out now
+ Critical Role released a holiday album, which includes some queer love songs including my favorite, a Laudna/Imogen song, Cold Inside
+ Someone who has missed the point entirely threw jewelry AT Billie Eilish while she was singing “What Was I Made For,” hitting her
+ In better Billie news, she did an NPR Tiny Desk Concert with her brother Finneas and it was lovely
+ Kristen Chenoweth stands up against the One Million Moms for their homophobic bullshit
+ It can be argued that Lioness is pandering to the MAGA crowd
+ 2024 loved a toxic lesbian on TV (and we loved them, too)
+ In the movie Maria, the singing you hear is a blend of Angelina Jolie’s voice and Maria Callas’s
+ And of course, it’s Autostraddle’s year-end list season, and you can check out the TV Team’s favorite characters and favorite TV scenes of the year so far!
