{"id":105288,"date":"2025-08-29T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105288\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:20:11","slug":"how-mans-best-friend-songstress-went-from-disney-channel-actress-to-pop-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105288\/","title":{"rendered":"How Man\u2019s Best Friend songstress went from Disney Channel actress to pop superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina Carpenter\u2019<\/a>s career is anything but wooden. Last August she released Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/a>, one of the albums of the summer, which topped the charts in 19 countries. Three songs from the record, Espresso, Please Please Please and Taste, ranked in the top five of the Billboard chart in America simultaneously. Carpenter became the first solo performer to achieve this feat; the Beatles<\/a> are the only other act to have managed it.<\/p>\n

Her status has built up quickly. In the first half of 2022, Carpenter\u2019s songs were streamed 73 million times in America; in the same period this year, that number had jumped to 1.9 billion. In April, Luminate, a data firm, found that Carpenter\u2019s fandom was growing faster than any other musician\u2019s. (Their index looks at things such as social media engagement and public awareness as well as streaming data.)<\/p>\n

\"Sabrina<\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter (pictured at the Met Gala in May) has had quite the year since touring as Taylor Swift\u2019s supporting act.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Carpenter is hoping to follow up on that success with Man\u2019s Best Friend, a new album released on August 29. Its lead single, Manchild, has already topped the charts in America and Britain. In coming months, you can expect to hear her effervescent melodies and sultry lyrics blasting from every car radio and teenager\u2019s bedroom. How has Carpenter established herself<\/a> as pop\u2019s new princess<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Three factors explain her ascendancy. First, her music is compulsively catchy. Carpenter has spent a long time finding the right sound. (Man\u2019s Best Friend is her seventh studio album.) Like pop stars Miley Cyrus and Olivia Rodrigo, Carpenter started her career as a child actor on the Disney Channel. Her first song was released in 2014, when she was just 14 years old; she spent the next decade exploring modes as varied as folk and electronic dance music.<\/p>\n

\u2018Everything she does is with that knowing wink at the audience.\u2019<\/p>\n

Glenn Fosbraey<\/p>\n

This experimentation came to fruition on Short n\u2019 Sweet. The record is a paragon of pop in 36 minutes, incorporating sounds from disco to country to hip-hop. Even as Carpenter borrows from different genres, her songs have a distinctive, whimsical quality.<\/p>\n

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Jack Antonoff, a producer who works with Carpenter (as well as Taylor Swift<\/a>), has said the appeal of Please Please Please lies in the \u201cpush and pull\u201d between the regimented percussion and \u201cbubbly \u2026 floating\u201d synthesisers: \u201cIt makes you feel like a little bit drunk, a little bit dreamlike.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second reason for her popularity is her witty lyrics. Carpenter stands out because she makes \u201creally fun, really flirty, sometimes silly, literally nonsensical songs\u201d, notes Erica Campbell, author of a forthcoming book about the star. Take Espresso, Carpenter\u2019s biggest hit, in which she croons: \u201cSay you can\u2019t sleep, baby, I know \/ That\u2019s that me espresso.\u201d Or this, from Bed Chem: \u201cWhere art thou? Why not uponeth me?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s career is anything but wooden. Last August she released Short n\u2019 Sweet, one of the albums…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-105288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}