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‘I’m a tyrant!’: pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter on freakish fame, fighting Disney and writing the song of the summer
After 14 years in obscurity, she has now been streamed by billions, censored by the BBC and toured with Taylor Swift – and she’s still only 25. But the Espresso singer says the public aren’t making life easy
Photograph: Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for Tas Rights ManagementThe morning we meet in early June – in the basement of a luxury hotel in Soho, central London; she describes the decor as looking like “they just threw up every pattern in the world” – it has just been announced that Please Please Please, her withering yacht-rock-meets-country follow-up to Espresso, will debut at No 1 on the UK charts, a rarefied new zone for her. Although she arrives at our interview looking like a human Barbie – deeply bronzed, impeccably coiffed, Burberry two-piece freshly pressed – and speaks cautiously and deliberately, she is also quick-witted, liable to slip in a joke at the end of a solemn sentence or let out a hearty, mischievous laugh. Nonsense, the album’s breakout single, is a heady blend of Hawaii slide guitar and rap-adjacent flow about being so aroused that you can’t speak properly – making it a killer karaoke track and a perfect encapsulation of Carpenter’s distinctive style.
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