Sabrina Carpenter

2022 - 7 - 15

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Sabrina Carpenter sings about 'death threats' and Joshua Bassett's ... (INSIDER)

Carpenter's new song, "Because I Liked a Boy," seems to address the backlash she faced after Olivia Rodrigo released "Drivers License" in early 2021.

Bassett weathered similar insults in the wake of "Drivers License" and suffered septic shock and heart failure days after the song came out. "Now I'm a homewrecker, I'm a slut / I got death threats fillin' up semi-trucks," Carpenter sings in the chorus. The 23-year-old songstress unveiled "Because I Liked a Boy" on Friday as the fifth track on her fifth studio album, "Emails I Can't Send."

Sabrina Carpenter Just Addressed the Alleged Olivia Rodrigo Diss ... (Seventeen.com)

Sabrina Carpenter's new album "emails i can't send" is out and she's opening up about the Olivia Rodrigo, and Joshua Bassett love triangle.

Titled "because i liked a boy" the track starts with Sabrina possibly opening up about time with Joshua, with her singing: "You showed up with a boombox / And stars in your eyes / Who knew cuddling on trampolines / Could be so reckless? As for where else she looked for inspiration when writing this song, Sabrina said "One of my favorite movies is Easy A, and I was sort of picturing Emma Stone’s character because she was labeled to be something. For the final chorus, she sings, "And all of this for what? However, Sabrina was quick to refute these claims, saying that "the song isn’t calling out one single person," and that while "some lines address a specific situation, others "address plenty of other experiences I’ve had this past year." In 2021, Olivia went on to write multiple hit songs, seemingly about her experience — and fans went *wild*. Basically, everyone thought that Olivia had written "drivers license" about Joshua , with lyrics like "And you're probably with that blonde girl / who always made me doubt," pointing toward his new relationship with Sabrina. Now, more than a year later, Sabrina is opening up with her side of the story in her fifth studio album emails i can't send.

Sabrina Carpenter's New Song Sounds Like A Response To The ... (Elite Daily)

Sabrina Carpenter's new song "because i liked a boy" seems to be a response to the speculation about her relationships with Joshua Bassett and Olivia ...

Tell me who I am, guess I don't have a choice.” Finally, Carpenter delivered her response to “drivers license” in “because i liked a boy.” In the dreamy ballad, Carpenter addresses how she’d been painted as the villain that broke up the High School Musical sweethearts, but claims that’s not how the story actually went. The most buzzed-about song is the album’s lead single, “because i liked a boy,” because the lyrics seem to clearly be addressing that Sabrina Carpenter/Joshua Bassett/Olivia Rodrigo drama that “drivers license” stirred up.

Sabrina Carpenter Discussed The Joshua Bassett And Olivia ... (BuzzFeed)

Sabrina Carpenter Discussed The Joshua Bassett And Olivia Rodrigo "Drivers License" Drama In Her New Song ... "When everything went down, we'd already broken up.".

She uses humor to deflect her pain and what she’s going through and I do that, too. And it’s frustrating because you want to do something about it. As you're likely aware, Olivia sings, "You're probably with that blonde girl / She's so much older than me" — which many interpreted to be about Joshua and Sabrina.

Sabrina Carpenter References 'Death Threats' After Olivia Rodrigo ... (ETCanada.com)

Sabrina Carpenter has a very different view of events from most people. On Friday, the 23-year-old singer released her new album, Emails I Can't Send, ...

“Maybe we could’ve been friends/If I met you in another life/Maybe then we could pretend/There’s no gravity in the words we write,” she sang on that track. The tolerance for bulls**t in the last two years really minimized for me.” “Now, looking back on it, the last two or three years of my life, that song came from a really real place in my life, so it didn’t feel right to not kind of write that song.

Sabrina Carpenter Reflects on Being Called "S--t" and ... (E! Online)

Sabrina Carpenter dropped her new album Emails I Can't Send on July 15, which contains her song “Because I Liked a Boy." Read some of the lyrics here.

"Please tell me who I am/Guess I don't have a choice/All because I liked a boy." But then if you do something, people are mad; if you don't do something, people are mad; and you're like, ‘What's the way I'm going to feel happy and at peace with myself?' For me, it was just important to tell the story from my perception." "I'm not catastrophizing/Everything's derailing," she sings. "Dating boys with exes/No, I wouldn't recommend it." "I'm the hot topic on your tongue," she continues. The Girl Meets World actress reflects on bonding with a guy "over Black Eyed Peas and complicated exes."