Sabrina Carpenter Releases New Album “emails i can't send”: Streaming

2022-07-18
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Sabrina Carpenter Releases New Album “emails i can't send”: Streaming
American singer-songwriter and actress Sabrina Carpenter released fifth studio album “emails i can't send” along with a new music video for “because i liked a boy” on July 15, 2022.

It is her first album in three years since the 2019 album “Singular: Act II”, and also is first LP under he new label Island Records.
The album comprises 13-track, American singer-songwriter Julia Michaels and Canadian singer-songwriter JP Saxe contributed 7 songs including the album title track. Also, JP Saxe co-wrote with Sabrina Carpenter two more songs.
Produced by John Ryan, Jason Evigan, Leroy Clampitt, Jorgen Odegard and Ryan Marrone.
Last October, Sabrina Carpenter told Zane Lowe of Apple Music about the album, “I started writing emails to myself in the beginning of quarantine as a way of kind of not going insane. And I realized the type of venting emails that you write out, but never plan on sending are the most authentic, real part of your brain that you can capture in that moment, because you're not worried about how people are going to hear it or how they're going to perceive you after they hear it… So, basically, the songs that I've been writing for the last year have come from the starts of those emails.”
She continued, “I've learned a lot and, essentially, this next record for me, feels like the first one where I am myself… 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.”
Sabrina Carpenter explained of some tracks for the album via Rolling Stone.

“emails i can't send”
“This song reminds me of my childhood. I think anytime you start to process why you are the way you are, maybe because of things that happened in your childhood, it's always a sad realization to come to. It's also sad when you grow up and the characters in the storybooks were not who you thought they were. I knew it would be called “Emails I Can't Send” just purely from the way that I was writing it — almost as if it was a word vomit email. It honestly didn't even take a lot of thought. It sounds like an email that I've written before where I've been like, 'That's going in the drafts.' I usually find that those thoughts are sometimes the most universal.
I started to realize that some of those lines and some of those words that jumped out at me from emails that I wrote to myself were songs: verses, choruses, bridges. There were all these things that I wasn't afraid to say when I was writing an email that I knew no one was ever going to read that I was like, “Oh these are my unfiltered thoughts,” as opposed to when you go into a studio and there's all these expectations for what you're supposed to leave the studio with. When I was just writing to myself alone in my room, I wasn't thinking about anyone hearing it or judging it or liking it or disliking it. It's always been the hardest thing to name albums for me, so the fact that this kind of came somewhat naturally said a lot to me.”

“Tornado Warnings”
“The coolest thing about this story is that it's so literal. Well, both literal and metaphorical, because I use tornado warnings as a metaphor for being in situations where you know it's probably going to be bad for you, but you decide to ignore them. But this was based on a true story where I was in the middle of a park on a seesaw with someone that I shouldn't have been with and then it started to hail. And then I got a tornado warning on my phone and ignored it. The next day I had therapy, and I completely did not tell my therapist anything because I was afraid that he was going to be mad at me. And I was like, 'Why am I spending money on this therapy session if I'm gonna lie to you?'
Sometimes you're just like, “I don't want to heal yet. I know that if I open up to you, you're going to tell me what I need to hear.” I went to the studio later that day, wrote up what I thought was this really funny story, and it ended up being this painfully beautiful song. There were a few songs I decided to be a little bit more experimental when it came to the more spoken word-type rhythms. Sometimes it ends up sounding amazing. Sometimes it ends up sounding not great. But this was one of those scenarios where it feels really special. It feels very nostalgic.”
“Already Over”
“This one happened from a game we were playing in the studio. It was the end of a long week and we were really tired. We split into groups of two and each of us wrote a chorus in 15 minutes, and we'll rotate so by the end of the hour we'll have six chorus ideas. If we like any of them, great, we can start that tomorrow. And if not, we don't have to use any of them. It's fine. I teamed up with John Ryan, who produced the song. We wrote this slow, Beatles-y-sounding song called 'Closure.' And it's a different melody, but the lyric was “How am I supposed to leave you now that I know you're already over?” I have this feeling where sometimes I can't leave my own house. So if you're here, like, what am I supposed to do? You're already here, it's too late.
I just went ham musically. Dolly Parton was a huge reference of mine during this album, but I also wanted it to feel modern at the same time. It was a fun way to write about it in a way that didn't weigh me down like some of the other songs did. Sometimes writing some of the songs on the record was cathartic and I was crying and it wasn't fun. This one should feel sad, because it's such a strenuous feeling that you continuously need closure with a person and it's never fully finished — but that's also life. You're never going to get the perfect closure or ideal scenario when something is ending, because things ending always hurts. Y'know?”

“because i liked a boy”
“The most difficult part about this album was that it started from a place where it was reflecting my life at the time. 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. But at the same time, I've had so many people that have heard it tell me how much they relate to it in their own way. Like, 'I went through years where people were believing all these things that people were saying about me that weren't true.' People have experienced that similar situation in a completely different way than I've experienced it.
It was very therapeutic to write that song from hindsight and being like, 'Wow, one thing leads to another and things can really get out of hand.' Just being able to own it at the end of the day, and not let it determine who you are. My favorite lyric in the song is 'Tell me who I am, because I don't have a choice.' It's obviously sarcastic, but in the way that people can't tell you who you are. Only if you allow them to, like really get under your skin. [Covers her face.] But truthfully, you know who you are.
So many people probably have dealt with the situation of being labeled something that they're not. And it's frustrating because you want to do something about it. 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. 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. It's a weirdly empowering film in a sense. She uses humor to deflect her pain and what she's going through and I do that too. I think this song has elements of that too. It's also about the Black Eyed Peas!”

“decode”
“This one took the longest to get right. At this age, it's really, really hard to accept anything that's out of your control. At least for me. To be like, 'Why can't it just be the way that I want it to be in my head?' Being hard on myself and blaming myself for the entirety of the situation that I was going through.
It's so funny listening to this song now. I'm literally gonna cry. [She starts tearing up.] I hope for the rest of my life, I can use this song as a compass to guide me: 'You are past the point of asking questions and asking Whys and asking Hows. It just is what it is.' Sometimes you need to just accept that statement. There's a lot of power in being like, 'I'm not going to look back anymore. I'm not going to question and I'm not going to wonder why. I'm just gonna allow it to be what it was and know that it was meant to happen.'
I think this song will be important for anyone who has been in relationships or friendships in their lives that have caused them a lot of tumultuous stress and caused them to question themselves. My favorite line in it is 'Learning from you that I can walk away too,' because that was just a very interesting moment in my life where I was like, 'This is an option.' I had never looked at it as an option because I don't consider myself someone that would easily give up on a situation. I consider myself someone that would stay past the point that I should for love. That was a big moment for me, when I was like, 'OK, this is also an option for me as well. And that might even be better for me.' It's sometimes easier to stay in a situation that might not be good for you than it is to gather the courage to leave.”

“Fast Times”
“We weren't taking ourselves too seriously making it, which really reflects the energy of the song. [It's] really about the feeling when you're letting life steer the wheel and you think 'Let me enjoy this now and I'll process the emotional repercussions of this later.' [It's] very indicative of my 20s thus far.”

“skinny dipping” via Teen Vogue
“I didn't feel in that moment that I was at a place where I could literally be skinny dipping in water under the bridge. I didn't feel like I was healed and fully out of a place where I didn't hold any anger or resentment.”

“Vicious” via statement
“Sonically, you're able to hear me really closely, and it's almost like I'm narrating the story to you. This song is really narrative and personal. It's as if I'm having a conversation. We've all had experiences with people we love so deeply who turn out to be different than we thought they were. It's a really painful realization to come to terms with. A lot of times, we focus on the other side of the healing process and fail to own up to uncomfortable feelings like anger and resentment. I don't touch on that side of myself too often, but it's a huge part of my story over the past couple of years, so I thought it was important to start there on 'Vicious'.”
source : Apple Music

Sabrina Carpenter Releases New Album “emails i can't send”: Streaming

American singer-songwriter and actress Sabrina Carpenter released fifth studio album “emails i can't send” along with a new music video for “because i liked a boy” on July 15, 2022.