Sabrina Carpenter Promotes Emails I Can’t Send With Vogue

Sabrina Carpenter recently sat down with Vogue to discuss her new album, Emails I Can’t Send. The young singer unveiled the album last month and has been doing press ever since. Highlights from her interview are below.

On when she began writing her new album: “I was doing a run on Broadway [in Mean Girls] right before the pandemic, and once the shutdown happened, I sort of went into this mode of… I mean, everybody has their way of coping. Some people were like, I’m not going to do anything for however long, and I’m just going to take this time off for myself and recuperate. But for me, I was like, I’m going to start this process [of writing a new album]. I knew that it would take a long time, because I really wanted to take my time with this project in particular. I signed with a new label in the middle of the pandemic, and I think there’s so much that changes between the ages of 18 to 21, so I knew that this project would be very different. But the process kind of started there. It incorporated a lot of living life as well as it did actually working on the music—I was really writing through everything that I was experiencing.”

On whether or not the title of the album is literal: “Yeah, totally. I think the hardest thing for me has always been naming the album. I don’t know why, but I think it’s just the fact that you have so many stories in one place, and you’re expected to slap one word on it. That’s a lot of pressure. When I wrote the actual title track, I was [using] one of the emails that I had written to myself, and I just said out loud: “That’s the name of the album!” Then every song kind of came from that place. Every song came from those emails or messages or whatever my way of coping was at the time. I think it captures a really important time in my life.”

You can check out even more from her interview here. Emails I Can’t Send is available now!