Sabrina Carpenter Talks Pushing Back at Her Record Label, Alleged Olivia Rodrigo Response Song & What She Told Taylor Swift

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Sabrina Carpenter is opening up about her career. The 25-year-old “Espresso” singer got candid in conversation with Vogue, out now.

During the conversation, she spoke about her music leading up to her breakout hit “Espresso,” disagreements with her record label, Taylor Swift‘s impact on her, her alleged response to Olivia Rodrigo‘s debut hit, and much more. Keep reading to find out more… On the label wanting “Please Please Please” to be the first single, and her pushing for “Espresso”: “There’s something about this song that, if I’d never heard it before, and I heard it live for the first time, I would understand it.

I was definitely being swayed in another direction, but I knew deep down that it was this song. I was afraid of disappointing people for, like, five minutes.

And then I was like: ‘No.’” On only making four albums under her five-album contract with Hollywood Records: “I definitely didn’t fulfill my contract, thank God.” On her 2018 single “Sue Me”: “I’m so happy that it exists because I think that when a lot of people try to figure out where maybe my personality and my music and the bluntness and the honesty come from, I do think it started in that chapter of my life.” On Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour‘s impact: “Her stadiums make my shows look like clubs.