Sabrina Carpenter talks about opening up for Taylor Swift on the Latin American leg of her Eras tour, how she thinks of her viral "Nonsense" outros, being a K-Pop stan, her new fragrance Sweet Tooth Caramel Dream, and more!
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00:00 I've been growing up with her advice in her songs
00:02 'cause it's very much like a how-to book
00:04 on how to survive as a young woman.
00:07 Hey, what's up?
00:08 It's Sabrina Carpenter and this is Billboard News.
00:10 (upbeat music)
00:13 Hey everybody, it's Rania Niftos with Billboard News
00:22 and I'm here with one of my favorite artists,
00:24 Sabrina Carpenter.
00:26 - Hello.
00:27 - Hey.
00:28 - Hi.
00:29 ♪ 'Cause I like to pour it ♪
00:31 ♪ So don't leave ♪
00:33 ♪ We're looking so pretty tonight ♪
00:35 ♪ Wearing your favorite color under the light ♪
00:38 ♪ I'll be honest ♪
00:40 ♪ Looking at you got me thinking nonsense ♪
00:43 ♪ Cat was in my stomach when you were ♪
00:45 - This looks a little different
00:47 than the usual Billboard set
00:48 because we are here behind the scenes
00:51 of your new fragrance, Caramel Dream.
00:54 - Yeah, we on set for sure.
00:55 - We drenched ourselves in it earlier.
00:57 - We smell crazy.
00:58 - So good right now.
00:59 - So good.
01:00 (laughs)
01:01 And yeah, I mean, it's your second fragrance.
01:04 - Yeah.
01:05 - How exciting.
01:05 - Yeah, I feel, I mean, I feel so lucky
01:07 to make one fragrance, let alone two.
01:10 It's also really nice because you know when you get
01:11 like a pet and like the pet's like kind of lonely
01:14 and you're like, "Oh, I need to get another cat now
01:16 'cause the cat's alone."
01:18 That's how I feel about the fragrance.
01:19 'Cause like the first one now has like a sister.
01:22 It has a companion.
01:24 But they're both very different and unique
01:25 in their own special ways.
01:26 So it's hard to choose a favorite,
01:28 much like a pet. - Of course,
01:29 like your children, like your pets.
01:30 - Like your pet.
01:32 And yeah, I'm so passionate about the fragrance
01:34 because it smells, it smells incredible.
01:37 I mean, it's all the things that I love
01:39 and it's very aligned with like
01:42 where I'm at in life right now.
01:44 - Where you're at in life right now is not too shabby.
01:46 - Oh, thank you.
01:48 - You wrapped your own tour, which was beautiful.
01:51 Loved the scenery, loved everything.
01:53 - Thank you so much.
01:54 - And you're about to go on tour
01:55 with the one and only Taylor Swift.
01:57 - The one and only.
01:58 - The heiress tour.
01:59 What was your reaction when you found that out?
02:02 - Oh my God.
02:03 Honestly, I didn't really have a whole lot of thoughts.
02:06 Your mind kind of just goes.
02:08 - Right.
02:09 - That is, you know, one of my main inspirations
02:12 ever since I was a little girl.
02:14 ♪ As far as I'm concerned ♪
02:15 ♪ You're just another picture to burn ♪
02:19 - Roland, now to just be able to like watch
02:22 that show every night is gonna be so special.
02:24 And I feel so lucky that we get to go
02:26 to all the places we get to go with her.
02:28 - Has Taylor given you any advice on performing,
02:31 on your career or anything?
02:33 Just, I feel like she speaks like gospel.
02:35 So anything is just.
02:36 - Well, yeah, it's so funny.
02:38 I'm like, I've been growing up with her advice
02:40 and her songs.
02:41 - Right.
02:42 - 'Cause it's very much like a how-to book
02:43 on how to survive as a young woman,
02:45 which is really special.
02:46 But watching her in itself is like how you learn.
02:50 - Masterclass.
02:51 - Yeah, and I just admire her work ethic
02:53 and her talent and her, like, she's just so amazing.
02:56 So I'm not gonna like, I'm not gonna be weird
02:59 'cause I'm totally with her.
03:00 - Right, right.
03:01 No, it's cute, it's fun.
03:03 - Yeah, it's so fun.
03:04 - And obviously something about your show
03:06 is that your fans look forward to every single time,
03:09 every single stop are the nonsense outros.
03:12 ♪ God has given me all the endorphins ♪
03:15 ♪ I wish I never had to pay my mortgage ♪
03:19 ♪ Beverly is the city I was born in ♪
03:23 ♪ A person I've not even noticed ♪
03:26 ♪ This song is not about Joshua Bassett ♪
03:29 - How do you come up with one every night?
03:32 - I'm not gonna lie.
03:33 I mean, I've made a lot of provocative jokes
03:36 and I put up a, like, I talk a big talk.
03:38 The outros are partially inspired by real life
03:41 and partially like, it's just the more outrageous sometimes
03:46 the more fun it is.
03:47 - Exactly.
03:48 It's all fun.
03:49 - It has to be fun.
03:49 - Exactly, yeah.
03:50 - That's all part of the song.
03:51 You've been in the pop space for quite some time.
03:53 I mean, you grew up basically on camera singing.
03:57 How have you seen pop music evolve, I guess,
04:00 over the course of the past, what, 10 years
04:03 that you've been in the industry?
04:05 - I think what I really appreciate about music,
04:07 but most specifically pop, is that it's always evolving
04:11 and, you know, there's no point in trying
04:14 to like, catch onto a trend
04:15 'cause by the time you catch onto the trend
04:17 we're onto something else.
04:18 And so I think it's more fun and exciting
04:20 to just really always keep exploring
04:21 and finding new parts of myself within my music
04:25 and just being very true to my own personal journey
04:29 and thoughts and all that.
04:30 - And a new growth that I'm seeing in pop music
04:33 over the past few years and something
04:34 that I know you're a fan of is K-pop.
04:37 - Girl.
04:38 - You introduced twice at Women in Music.
04:41 - Yeah, that was so fun.
04:42 - You're close with Lisa from Blackpink.
04:44 - Yeah, I love her so much.
04:44 - I mean, how amazing, what a genre.
04:46 Like, what do you think it is about it?
04:48 I mean, beyond it being just incredibly catchy,
04:51 that is really connecting with people.
04:53 - It's really nice to have fun when you think about life
04:57 because life can be so many things
04:59 and a lot of the time it's heavy and it's confusing.
05:01 And so I really do appreciate, you know,
05:04 how much fun I have when I listen to K-pop,
05:07 but I mean, so many different artists I'm a huge fan of.
05:10 And more than that, like, they're just impressive.
05:13 They're some of the most like,
05:15 talented people I've ever met.
05:17 ♪ I give a second chance 'cause you give ♪
05:21 - If you guys wanna know more about Caramel Dream,
05:24 Sabrina and I ran through the entire thing
05:26 over on Talk Shop Live.
05:27 We smelled the fragrance, we talked about the notes,
05:29 we talked about the inspiration, we did the whole thing.
05:32 - We talked a lot.
05:33 - We talked, we chatted away.
05:35 - Touring with Taylor Swift,
05:37 we need to know what era is she in, what album era?
05:40 - What, is the fragrances?
05:42 - Yes.
05:42 - Ooh, that's a really good question.
05:44 I guess there's a little part of me that wants to say red.
05:49 Only because when I think of like,
05:52 when I think of red, I think of like a fall album.
05:55 - That's what I was gonna say.
05:56 You can catch it all over on Talk Shop Live
05:58 and you can buy the fragrance directly there, super easy.
06:02 (upbeat music)
06:05 (whooshing)