Sabrina Carpenter duets with Stevie Nicks
- Sabrina Carpenter was the Met Gala’s surprise performer on May 4, then brought out Stevie Nicks for live Fleetwood Mac duets inside the Met. - The pair sang “Landslide,” and footage from inside also showed “Don’t Stop,” while Carpenter opened with “House Tour,” “Espresso,” and “Please Please Please.” - It mattered because the Met’s biggest music moments usually stay private — but this one leaked fast and instantly became the night’s defining inside clip.
The big Met Gala music moment this year wasn’t on the carpet. It happened once guests were inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after the cameras mostly stopped rolling. Sabrina Carpenter turned out to be the night’s surprise performer, and then Stevie Nicks walked onstage and changed the temperature in the room. Together they sang Fleetwood Mac songs that basically guaranteed the clips would outrun the fashion chatter by morning. ### What actually happened inside? Carpenter performed a short set for Met Gala guests on Monday, May 4, in New York. Videos and reports from inside the event show her doing her own songs first — including “House Tour,” “Espresso,” and “Please Please Please” — before Stevie Nicks joined her later in the night. The performance took place inside the Met, not on the red carpet or in the public livestream. ### Which songs did they do together? The headline duet was “Landslide,” which is the kind of song that immediately gives a crossover moment emotional weight. Multiple reports and clips also point to a second Fleetwood Mac number, “Don’t Stop,” with Carpenter and Nicks sharing vocals. Nicks also performed “Gypsy” and “Edge of Seventeen” as part of the closing stretch. ### Why did this hit so hard? Because the Met Gala is weirdly split in two. Outside, it’s a fashion spectacle built for cameras. Inside, it’s a tightly controlled private fundraiser with a no-phone rule, so the most memorable moments usually survive as rumor, a few official images, and shaky leaked clips. That makes any real musical surprise feel more exclusive — and more viral once it escapes the room. ### Why Sabrina Carpenter? Carpenter makes sense as the pick because she’s in that exact zone the Met likes — huge mainstream visibility, strong visual identity, and songs everyone in the room already knows. She was also part of this year’s host committee, which made her more than just a random booking dropped into the program. Yahoo’s live recap also framed her as one of the night’s central figures before the inside-performance clips started circulating. ### Why Stevie Nicks? Nicks gave the set its multigenerational jolt. Carpenter alone would have been a big pop booking. Carpenter plus Nicks turned it into a handoff moment — not literally, but emotionally. “Landslide” is one of those songs that collapses age gaps fast, so the duet worked like a bridge between Carpenter’s current pop peak and Nicks’ long mythic status in rock. That’s why the clip traveled so quickly. ### Was this the night’s main performance? Basically, yes. Vogue described Carpenter and Nicks as the evening’s big double act, and entertainment coverage treated the duet as the standout inside-the-room moment. That tracks with how the Met often works — one surprise set becomes the thing everyone talks about after the gowns have already been cataloged. This year, that was clearly Carpenter and Nicks at the Temple of Dendur. ### So why does this matter beyond one clip? Because it shows how the Met Gala now produces two kinds of cultural winners. There’s the best-dressed winner, and then there’s the person who owns the morning after. Carpenter seems to have done both, but the duet is what gave the night a story. In a room built around image, she and Nicks created an actual moment. ### Bottom line? The fashion got people in the door, but the Sabrina Carpenter–Stevie Nicks duet is what people will remember from May 4. That’s the rare Met Gala moment that feels exclusive and instantly public at the same time.
