The louche tone was apparent in the stage design, too, an intricate affair of platforms and staircases, as well as the performer’s initial outfit — a rhinestone bodysuit with a collar as sharp as the wings of a Corvette,

As the sense of anticipation intensified around Hyde Park ahead of the arrival of Sabrina Carpenter, a visual of the singer urging the crowd to “stick around for a great evening of television” played out on the big screens on the Great Oak Stage,