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Sabrina Carpenter to Swifties: 'F--- Them All' for Hating on Jack Antonoff

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 17, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 17, 2024 |


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Sabrina Carpenter revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that she worked with musician and producer Jack Antonoff on “about half of her upcoming sixth studio album,” Short N’ Sweet, coming August 23rd. Specifically, he produced and co-wrote the single you’ve been hearing all over TikTok lately, “Please Please Please.”

Carpenter is a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie, who opened for her on a handful of legs of the Eras Tour. But Swift’s collaborations with Antonoff—1989 through TTPD—are controversial. Some fans find his work monotonous and feel that he’s made the music of Swift, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey nearly unrecognizable from each other. This criticism reached its height with the release of The Tortured Poet’s Department earlier this year, which many argue is Swift’s worst album to date. (I used to be one of those people but will admit that it has grown on me.)

“Fuck them all,” Carpenter said of these haters. “I think he’s one of the most talented people I’ve ever met. When he’s in a room, he’s able to literally touch every instrument in the room and make it sound magical. He also works very fast, which I really appreciate because I work very fast.”

She explained how they met outside of a New York comedy club by chance a couple of years ago.

“I was peeing my pants because I wanted to work with him for my whole life. After that, we, luckily enough, became friends; personalities meshed, and it was only a matter of time. He heard some of the stuff that I was working on for this album, and we just started to make magic.”

Antonoff has said that Carpenter is “becoming one of the biggest young pop stars, and that song is such a statement of expressing yourself, not just lyrically, but sonically,” presumably referring to their collaboration on “Please Please Please.”

“I think that the aesthetic of not giving a fuck or the aesthetic of telling it like it is has become so popular that there’s a lot of people who pander to that concept rather than are that concept. Sabrina actually is,” he added, bringing to mind the lyrics from “Espresso,” Carpenter’s other song you can’t get away from this summer: “I can’t relate to desperation / My ‘give a fucks’ are on vacation.” Perhaps he was inspired by that feeling when he helped her write the lyrics to “Please Please Please:” “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another / I beg you, don’t embarrass me, motherfucker.”