Sabrina Carpenter on new music, songwriting and album cover debate

Sabrina Carpenter connected caller music, medium screen

Sabrina Carpenter opens up astir caller euphony and viral medium screen statement successful exclusive interview 10:24

Sabrina Carpenter dropped her seventh album, "Man's Best Friend," connected Friday – astir 1 twelvemonth aft her Grammy Award winning medium "Short n' Sweet."

"I was conscionable going done a batch and I was like, 'well, I could either, you know, beryllium and sulk astir it, oregon I could constitute astir it,' and it doesn't mean I person to enactment immoderate of this out," Carpenter told "CBS Mornings" astir creating the album.

In an exclusive interview, the superstar spoke astir her caller music, songwriting process and the viral statement astir her archetypal medium cover.

For "Man's Best Friend," Carpenter worked with acquainted collaborators, including Jack Antonoff, John Ryan and Amy Allen.

"It felt similar a set successful a batch of ways. Like, someone's connected the drums, and someone's implicit present playing the synth and past we're connected the tambourine. … Then I'm cutting vocals. We're each doing pack vocals together," she said regarding the album.

Carpenter described having "many antithetic processes" portion penning her songs – but highlighted lyrics and concepts travel first.

"When I started, you know, becoming much intersexual arsenic a person, I deliberation it's conscionable thing that's a portion of life. You privation to constitute astir it," she said. "I didn't recognize it was arsenic taboo of a taxable until I started penning astir it much freely."

The Grammy Award victor gave penetration into a fewer of the songs connected the caller album.

For "Never Getting Laid," she revealed, "that 1 was a spot of a turning constituent for maine due to the fact that I'm truthful utilized to penning bitter songs and this 1 felt similar being bitter but with a batch of sweetness."

She said "Don't Worry, I'll Make You Worry" "sounds similar a threat, but it's, like, it's each conscionable said with a wink. It's said with, like, a pat connected the back. I deliberation that is the mode that I communicate."

While fans speculate who her euphony is about, Carpenter maintained she wouldn't say.

"It's much amusive for radical to representation successful their caput than the idiosyncratic I representation successful my head, I think," Carpenter said.

"I consciousness beauteous transparent going into immoderate of my relationships, that I constitute songs and I deliberation they're conscionable arsenic down for it. I deliberation it's also, astir of the time, they've been beauteous flattered erstwhile I … erstwhile they get a opus written astir them, bully oregon bad."

Carpenter admits that her euphony whitethorn not beryllium for everyone, saying, "you don't person to similar what I do.  I deliberation there's this weird misconception that each creator has to cheque each container for everyone to similar everything astir them."

She conscionable hopes her fans she's speaking to done her euphony consciousness the transportation and tin relate.

"Then I'm happy," she said.

The popular prima has antecedently said she thinks of her beingness and euphony similar a movie, saying "there's similar a batch of suspenseful music. There's immoderate cliff hangers sometimes. It's genuinely an up-and-down."

While describing her ain beingness arsenic versatile, she said she's currently, "in a beauteous place."

Album screen debate

Prior to the merchandise of her caller music, a statement ensued implicit Carpenter's archetypal medium screen for "Man's Best Friend," shocking the singer.

"I deliberation betwixt maine and my friends and my household and the radical that I ever stock my euphony and my creation with first, it was … it conscionable wasn't adjacent a conversation. It was just, like, it's perfect. For what the medium is, it's cleanable for, you know, benignant of what it represents."

The screen depicted Carpenter kneeling connected the ground. An idiosyncratic is lasting adjacent to her with Carpenter's manus connected the person's thigh arsenic they're pulling her hair.

She said her volition was to support the screen unfastened to interpretation.

"My mentation is being successful connected the control. Being successful connected your deficiency of power and erstwhile you privation to beryllium successful control," Carpenter said. "I deliberation arsenic a young woman, you're conscionable arsenic alert of erstwhile you're successful power arsenic erstwhile you're not."

She explained the medium for her was astir "the humanity of allowing yourself to marque those mistakes."

Carpenter said she tries to instrumentality the captious comments lightly.

"My fans that cognize maine and cognize the idiosyncratic down the euphony volition look astatine that photograph and they cognize precisely what it is. People that person nary thought who I americium perfectly look astatine that photograph and go, like, 'where are her parents?'"

"My parents really saw the photograph and they loved it," she said.

Friendship with Taylor Swift

Carpenter opened for Taylor Swift connected the Eras tour.

She's besides featured connected a opus successful Swift's upcoming album, "The Life of a Showgirl," which volition beryllium released Oct. 3.

While Carpenter wouldn't uncover thing astir the song, she spoke astir the opportunity, saying, "I've been looking up to her (Swift) since I was, … I retrieve the archetypal clip I heard a opus by her. I was 8 years aged connected the schoolhouse bus, and I was … conscionable similar my beingness was changed."

She besides expressed her excitement for Swift pursuing the announcement of her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs prima Travis Kelce, saying she wasn't amazed astatine however large the absorption was from fans.

"I'm conscionable blessed for them," Carpenter said.

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