Sabrina Carpenter for PAPER Magazine
On her recent success after releasing music for the past 10 years: “I don't know how to describe it,” she says. “When you're a child and you just have a feeling of, I know I'm going to do this someday. I know I'm going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I'm destined for. I have dreams and goals, and I will say I’m a little bit of a freak manifester sometimes, which is a blessing and a curse depending on how you look at it. I always knew deep down that this was something I would do with my life, and I didn't ever really doubt that, even when shit was hitting the ceiling fan,” she laughs, quoting her own “Please Please Please” lyrics. “No pun intended. I don’t think I ever doubted it.”
On being told to chose one genre: “I'll put it this way: when I was younger, I was told by a lot of grown men that I needed to pick a genre, stay in that genre, be that genre and do one thing,” she says. “And there wasn't even a genre that excited me at the time. It was their idea of what I should be. I was like 12 or 13. I know that sounds insane, but that was put into my head. So I think secretly my entire life, the goal was to be able to create something that felt multi-genre but also so distinctly myself. Sonically, all the songs are different, but the lyrical perspective is all Sabrina. It’s all me and it’s all stories in my life. That’s the throughline.”
On what to expect off her upcoming new album: “If your favorite song is ‘Espresso,’ then you'll have another song that you love. And if your favorite song is ‘Please’ Please Please,’ you’ll have another song that you love. And if you hate both of those songs, then listen to a different album,” she jokes. “I'm grateful for the people for tuning in, whether it be 10 years ago, five years ago, yesterday or tomorrow, in two years. There’s definitely some people that are still not tuned in. I plan on tuning them in.”
On her hit "Espresso": “When I was writing [‘Espresso’], I knew I loved it,” she says. “ I don't ever want to make myself sound like a psychic. All I knew was that I was faced with a decision of what song I wanted to put out into the world first when it came to this album, I was like, I think this is the time for this song. This makes the most sense for me right now and where I’m at in life.”
On new song "Taste" and writing songs about someone: Lyrics on Taste include, “I’ve been known to share” and “you’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissing you.”
When asked if she’s ever reluctant to write about certain topics, especially in relation to past coverage she’s had in the press, Carpenter explains what she calls the “scary truth.” She says, “I will write any song. It doesn’t mean I’ll put it out, but I’ll write it. I think the series of unfortunate events I’ve encountered in relationships are no secret to people who know me or think they know me.”
On writing "Please Please Please": “I think dating men in general, you're setting yourself up for a little bit of that,” she says. “That was how it came about, because I was like, ‘You know, I think this is funny, but it's real.’ I definitely remember leaving and questioning it, and it wasn’t until I wrote the bridge that I realized that was the song I’d dreamt about writing my whole life.”
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