Sabrina Carpenter Addresses 'Me, Espresso' Lyric & Reveals How Almost Cutting 'Nonsense' From Her Last Album Influenced Making Future Track Lists

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Sabrina Carpenter is opening up about her music! The 25-year-old songstress is the latest guest on the popular digital series Hot Ones with First We Feast and host Sean Evans, and he of course grilled her about her songwriting, choosing an album track list and more. Keep reading to find out more… One of the first things Sean asked was about almost not including “Nonsense,” one of her biggest hits, on her last album Emails I Can’t Send, and how that has shaped how she chooses songs for an album track list. “It made me want to trust my personal favorites a little bit more.

I think like when you’re making a record over time, you want to play it for your best friends, you want to play it for your family, and then you start to get in your head a little bit on everyone’s favorites,” Sabrina said. “I think the lesson I learned with ‘Nonsense’ was that this song was so kindred with my personality and I started to get so in my head on like what fits a record versus what fits like Sabrina or myself as an artist.

And that taught me so many lessons moving forward, making the next record. I think now whatever feels the most honest and connects with me the most, I feel like will connect with other people.” Later on Sabrina opened up about misheard lyrics and the line “me, espresso” in her summer smash “Espresso.” “I do like to pay attention to if people can understand lyrics because so much of what I like is, you know, the punchline, and if people don’t the punchline, it’s like [a] waste of 30 seconds,” she shared. “And I’m learning as I go.

I don’t think I have it all figured out, but that’s like how I feel about ‘me, espresso.’” “I’ve heard a lot of people that we’re like, ‘She should have said, ‘That’s that blonde espresso, duh,”