Last week, Espresso debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Carpenter's highest charting hit yet. More important, it has taken over the nation's psyche.
You can hardly go anywhere these days without hearing someone quoting the song's infectious hook That's that me espresso or wondering aloud, what is a me espresso?
Carpenter uses the caffeine metaphor in Espresso to suggest how restless she makes a guy she has wrapped around her finger: Say you can't sleep? Baby, I know.
In Espresso, Carpenter understands that espresso rhymes with I guess so. That's poetry.
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