Sabrina Carpenter has been working hard on hew new album for the past year while living in New York – and fans can’t wait!
The 22-year-old singer and actress dropped the track “Skinny Dipping” from the upcoming LP. This marks her first single on her new label, Island.
She recently opened up to Zane Lowe of Apple Music about her new music and what we can look forward to. Sabrina dished:
“It is a very honest record, which I think is kind of the first time that I can say that in a light where I had left a label that I was at since I was 12 years old and when you sign a deal when you’re 12, you… There should be a way around it.
And what’s unfortunate is nobody truly, even my parents, I can’t actually ever be like… It’s nobody’s fault.”
She went on to share more about her experiences with her previous label and contract, and how she’s now free to be herself with her music, for the first time in a decade:
“It was just the fact that, when you are that young, you don’t have the resources to know what you’re actually signing up for and all I knew is that I wanted to make music and I knew that if I did that, then I was going to be able to make music.
And I’ve learned a lot and, essentially, this next record for me, feels like the first one where I am myself. I know that sounds crazy, but it just feels… Also like you change so much from 12 to 22, and that’s ridiculous.”
Sabrina also stated that she doesn’t take anything for granted and she doesn’t regret anything, and that through it all, she now has all she could ever ask for:
“I don’t regret the past, and I don’t take it for granted, and I don’t take anyone that helped me and believed in me for granted. I just think that there’s a lot that I’ve learned and now a lot that I can kind of honestly reflect and look back on and see things with clear eyes and see people’s intentions with clear eyes, and see moments where I could have gone left instead of right.
And if it would’ve made a difference, doesn’t matter, you can’t change that. But it’s been that combined with, you said this earlier, but the music that I grew up on and how that’s really shaped me and working with these people that understand music better than anyone. And I think that it’s been a really beautiful, just fun process, which is all I could ever ask for.”
