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Sabrina Carpenter Compares Meeting Pop Hero Paul McCartney to Visiting the Upside Down: ‘Like Entering an Alternate Universe’

Sabrina Carpenter told Stephen Colbert that meeting her pop hero Paul McCartney was like visiting the Upside Down from 'Stranger Things.'

And while many pop musicians will tell you that some portion of their desire to write songs stems from an obsession with the Beatles, not many of them cite the country jamboree “Rocky Raccoon” as their guiding light. “When I was very, very young, my dad played me ‘Rocky Raccoon’ for the first time and I was so mesmerized by that song and the songwriting of it all that I fell in love with Paul McCartney,” Sabrina Carpenter told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Thursday night (Dec. 12). Then, when she grew up, Carpenter said she fell in love with McCartney’s songwriting, and, eventually, she met Sir Paul, as evidenced by an awards show candid of the two Colbert pulled out from behind his desk.

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