Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Sabrina Carpenter would be the first to admit that “Emails I Can’t Send,” her fifth and most recent album, was like going back to square one. “I saw it as my first big-girl album, for sure,” the 24-year-old says over the phone from Rio de Janeiro, where she’s about to open for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour.” That growth is the hallmark of “Emails,” which she repackaged as a deluxe version (with the title “Emails I Can’t Send Fwd”) this past March.
The star of the 2014-17 Disney Channel comedy “Girl Meets World” had a new lease on life going into her most critically acclaimed work to date, signing with Island Records after a split from her longtime label, the Disney-owned Hollywood Records.
She now has the freedom to express herself creatively. “Island kind of let me run off and make the album I always dreamt of making that I couldn’t make before,” she says.
Why not? “For political reasons I can’t get into,” she says. “But also I didn’t have the perspective to make that album when I was younger.
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