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,

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,