Sabrina Carpenter Covers The TIME 100 Next & Duets With Christina Aguilera On “What a Girl Wants”

Sabrina Carpenter is on the cover of TIME magazine. The young singer is on the cover as part of the magazine’s annual “TIME 100 Next” list. Highlights from her interview are below.

On wanting to make mistakes: “I wanted to make sure to still be young while I’m young… To go through your life trying to be a little robot angel, you’re going to have a lot of regrets later. That’s also why during that time of my life I was a little bit of an emotional wreck.”

On how persistency pays off: “There were so many things I dreamt of doing as a little girl I got to do this year that felt like such a cool, sweet, little bucket-list moment for my younger self. I literally threw up when I found out about SNL. Not to be graphic.”

On being messy: “I like the fact that I just put out a song that starts with ‘I can’t relate to desperation,’ and then I’m putting out the most desperate possible sounding chorus I could in my life. The idea is like: if everything is super calculated, then the second you make a statement, that’s who you are for the rest of your life—as opposed to it being like: or you can be super confident one day and then the most emotional wreck the next day.”

You can check out more from her interview, including a fun little pieces from Christina Aguilera, here. In other Christina Aguilera and Sabrina news, the pair teamed up to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Aguilera’s debut album. The pair performed a duet of Aguilera’s hit song, “What a Girl Wants”, which you can check out above.