Sabrina Carpenter Covers Interview

Sabrina Carpenter is on the cover of Interview. The singer is on the cover of the September issue to promote her new album, Man’s Best Friend. Highlights from her interview are below.

On her love of New York City: I came here in 2021. I wanted to write my album, Emails I Can’t Send, at Jungle City [Studios]. I wrote that album and then I was like, ‘I can’t really leave here.’ It was such a cliché twenties thing. I was like, ‘I’m going to move to New York by myself.’ I’ve been bicoastal ever since, but I’m from the East Coast originally.”

On finding time to write her new album: “Well, I’ve been doing this for a long time. Sometimes that’s a good thing and sometimes it’s a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. There’s an idea that once you get to a certain point, the pressure’s on, and then you start to really overthink it. I was just like, ‘This is no different than when I was making the last album.’ Nobody told me I needed to put it out at any date. If I felt inspired, I would just write. You can write and it doesn’t have to be for anything. But if you listen back to it and you go, “This should be in the world; I want people to hear this,” then that starts to become more real. And that’s kind of what happened.”

On the controversy surrounding the cover: If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t do anything anticipating what the reaction will be. I only do things that speak to me, that feel right, and make sense when you hear the music. When I came up with the imaging for it, it was so clear to me what it meant. So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, ‘Wow.'”

You can check out more from her interview here.