Sabrina Carpenter.Photo: Alfredo Flores
After months of anticipation,Sabrina Carpenteris finally back and she’s sharing a piece of herself with fans through her new record.
“Anybody that grows up experiences their 20s and experiences how rough of a road that is,” the “Skinny Dipping” singer, 23, tells PEOPLE. “But then adding what we’ve all dealt with in the last two years and then adding so many other things on top of that, for me personally it was a very, very pivotal time in my life.”
Sabrina Carpenter.Alfredo Flores
She adds, “So the fact that this album is now forever going to really mark that time and [serve] almost as a diary of that time in my life — I’ll never really be able to recreate and go back to that time. There’s something nostalgic about it.”
Now that it’s out, theGirl Meets Worldstar says the creation process was “really special” because she was simply “writing letters” to herself the entire time. “I think the fact that it all came together is really, really surreal,” she says.
Carpenter calls herself a “perfectionist” and says she took her time with the release because she wanted to make something she was “really proud of” — and she is. “I’m so happy that at the end of the day, I just make it for myself,” she says. “Then, the fact that I’ve had fans that have been growing up with me and can now relate these stories to their lives. It’s so special.”
She had two drinks curated to match the theme of her songs and the event was decorated with red hearts everywhere. But her work with Samsung goes even further. Carpenter collaborated with the company to create the music video to her song “Because I Liked a Boy” — which is believed to be about herrumored love trianglewithJoshua BassettandOlivia Rodrigo— and she says it was “really special.”
“That song just meant so much to me for a really long time,” she says. “And I was always really, really delicate and careful with the way that I wanted to make the video. I could not have asked for a better team of people to just fully back me up and support my vision.”
Fans began lining up for the concert at 7 a.m. and Carpenter says it “blows” her mind how “dedicated” they are. “I’m trying to even think if there was any artists that I camped out early for… you know, maybe theJonas Brothersactually,” she says. “I just think it’s such a special relationship that you have, when they’re that dedicated. I’m so lucky.”
With that, she’s now prepared to perform her new songs and “meet people all over the world.”
“Then also just slay hot girl summer,” she says jokingly. “I don’t know why I said that. I’m definitely not having a hot girl summer. We’re gonna be working. The hottest girls are working.”
source: people.com
