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How Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ and Two Other Songs Were Written in One Day


Producer Jack Antonoff and songwriter Steph Jones tell the stories behind Sabrina Carpenter's hits 'Espresso' and 'Please Please Please.'

If a genetic engineer — or a version of AI way better than the ones we’ve got now — could conjure a perfect song of the summer, there’s a good chance it would sound a lot like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”: frothy, effervescent, instantly identifiable and as catchy as poison oak. Thus, it was not out of character that, during a break from her stint opening Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour,” Carpenter gathered Jones and collaborators Amy Allen and Julian Bunetta at a studio in France. Antonoff said in Variety ‘s “Behind the Song,” “I first heard Sabrina’s music a few years ago, and I’ve been in love with her voice ever since.” The three of them crafted three distinctive tunes that day in the Village.

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