Sabrina and Madonna: Pop is alive & they rock it!

Sabrina Carpenter welcomed Madonna back to Coachella after 20 years, with the pair performing "Like a Prayer" together. The last time the Queen of Pop appeared on the musical festival's lineup was on April 30, 2006.

During the second weekend of the annual musical festival Coachella on April 17, at the end of Carpenter’s performance, the Queen of Pop Madonna joined while the "Pop Princess" was singing Juno and the pair went straight into Vogue, marking their first ever duet.

A day after the new duet, Sabrina took to her Instagram

Pop Queen Madonna and the Pop Princess Sabrina Carpenter

account to express her love and gratitude to the 67-year-old singer-songwriter, calling the night with Madonna "straight out of a dream."

In the gushing post, she penned down a "thank you":

"Coachella weekend 2 might take the damn cake," she began. "Madonna ..…I’ve got something i wanna talk about! thank you for coming out, bringing your love, and gracing the audience with everything you are + astrology knowledge + the greatest songs of all time," the Espresso singer noted.

Although her music is styled somewhat differently, Carpenter's sensual nuances and progressive image elevate Madonna's bold, conservative-challenging impact from the eighties to new heights. Despite this, they appear worlds apart, largely due to the time that has passed. Nearly five decades separate their prime eras, yet they share a significant connection!

Unlike Taylor Swift's production, which is plastic, Carpenter, like Madonna, brings a truly pop-culture, stage story that is told through a theatrical approach, mixing time, costumes, symbols, dance and music.

Madonna was the queen of reinvention and the goddess of transformation. She maintained control over her image from the era of "Like A Virgin" and "Material Girl" to "Erotica" and the more spiritual "Ray of Light" in between. "True Blue" and "Who’s That Girl" represented Madonna’s response to a shifting consciousness.

Her photobook, "Sex," successfully kept her in the spotlight and was fittingly banned and widely criticized. However, by today's standards, it would be seen as relatively tame.

Carpenter's transformation is rooted in her ability to evolve. From a sweet girl to her current confident, sexually aware persona, her new music video, House Tour, showcases Madonna's influence and the evolution of her artistic boldness.

Listening to Emails I Can’t Send Anymore also reveals a clever reimagining of her public persona, complemented by the suggestive album cover of Man's Best Friend.

The vagina/vulva goddess symbol represents divine feminine procreative energy, fertility, and the sacred source of life. In her performance Sabrina Carpenter is honoring it as a portal of life, creation, and divine feminine power, rather than something to feel shame about. Many traditions view the Yoni as a sacred vessel of life and divine feminine energy.

Madonna, though, was breaking rules when there were still many left to break.

Carpenter is pushing the boundaries after Madonna had already stretched the limits of acceptance. She has picked up where the Eighties icon left off and is successfully progressing, moving forward where others have previously fallen short.

This likely explains why the two artists expressed mutual admiration on stage. Madonna reminisced about her own Coachella debut 20 years earlier, calling the moment "full circle."

They concluded their stage collaboration by performing "Like A Prayer," then embraced and moved on.