Sabrina Carpenter Joins Kacey Musgraves To Cover ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’’

During her performance at this year’s Outside Lands festival in San Francisco, fast-rising pop star Sabrina Carpenter welcomed out country icon Kacey Musgraves, inviting her to cover Nancy Sinatra's 1966 hit These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.

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Addressing her crowd after a short interlude around the middle of her set, Carpenter quipped that she had “a surprise” for them, albeit one that was “honestly more for me than it is for you”.

She went on to say of her (then-unknown) special guest: “There’s an artist that I’ve just loved for my entire life. And she is just so remarkable in so many ways, and her voice has just taken me through so much of my life, and so many pivotal moments, and she means the world to me.”

Musgraves then emerged from the back of the stage to an onslaught of cheers. The pair sang Boots as a traditional duet, swapping verses back and forth as the crowd sang along. “That was so cool,” Carpenter said immediately afterwards. “That was like a dream.”

Have a look at some fan-shot footage of the moment below:

It was a fitting duet for Carpenter and Musgraves, with the latter having covered Boots (specifically the Lee Hazlewood rendition) at least 90 times between 2014 and 2016. Meanwhile, Carpenter once went viral for covering Musgraves’ 2021 song Camera Roll; last year, too, she received praise for her cover of Musgraves’ Christmas Makes Me Cry.

Meanwhile, Carpenter is gearing up to release her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet, on August 23. It’ll feature her recent smash-hits Please Please Please and Espresso, with another single, Slim Pickins, set to arrive in the coming days after it was previewed live at Outside Lands.

Fans are also expecting Carpenter to announce an Australian tour before the year is out, after she confirmed that one was “very much happening” earlier in 2024. She last performed Down Under as the opener for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, where in Melbourne (Naarm), she paid tribute to the late Olivia Newton-John by covering Hopelessly Devoted To You.