{"id":8107,"date":"2025-07-14T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8107\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:10:03","slug":"how-sabrina-carpenter-conquered-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8107\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sabrina Carpenter Conquered Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSabrina Carpenter<\/a> is as good as any current pop star at cultivating controversy and attention \u2014\u00a0the latest evidence was the now-subsided furor over her absurd Man\u2019s Best Friend album cover, which seems to take cues from Spinal Tap\u2019s Smell the Glove. \u201cShe\u2019s leaning into it and laughing about it at the same time,\u201d says Angie Martoccio, who profiled Carpenter for her recent Rolling Stone cover story<\/a> \u2014\u00a0which revealed that image aside, the singer\u2019s true obsession is music.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware that she was a full-on music nerd,\u201d Martoccio says in the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a>, which takes a deep look at Carpenter\u2019s career so far and previews her next album, Man\u2019s Best Friend, out Aug. 29. (To hear the whole episode, go here<\/a> for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, or just press play above.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s obsessed with the Seventies and spends her off-time watching Saturday Night Fever and really studying the discographies of her favorite artists,\u201d Martoccio adds. Carpenter\u2019s ABBA<\/a> fandom runs so deep she\u2019s named her cats Benny and Bj\u00f6rn, attended the ABBA Voyage show multiple times (taking wardrobe inspiration from it), and scored a personal museum tour from Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode digs into just how far Carpenter has come from the moment when she seemed in danger of being seen as just \u201cthe blonde girl\u201d from Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2018s \u201cDriver\u2019s License.\u201d The publicity around the two artists\u2019 teenage love triangle seemed to send Carpenter into artistic overdrive: She wrote great songs inspired by it all \u2014\u00a0\u201cSkin\u201d and \u201cBecause I Liked a Boy\u201d \u2014\u00a0as she began the work of redefining herself on her own terms with 2022\u2019s E-Mails I Didn\u2019t Send.\u00a0 When Martoccio asked if Carpenter ever thinks about that period now, she got a Don Draper-worthy response: \u201cI don\u2019t think about it at all.\u201d Later, Carpenter was spotted watching Rodrigo\u2019s Glastonbury set from the wings.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMartoccio\u2019s interview also touched on Carpenter\u2019s relationship with the world\u2019s scrutiny. The artist admits to reading everything written about her online \u2014 from body-shaming comments to criticism of her show\u2019s sexual content \u2014 to the point where she\u2019s \u201cnumb\u201d to much of it. Her feelings about being picked apart ended up on the vinyl-only \u201cNeedless to Say,\u201d a song she told Martoccio is close to her heart.<\/p>\n

\n\tDownload and subscribe to Rolling Stone\u2018s weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a> (or wherever you get your podcasts). Check out eight years\u2019 worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth interviews with Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, SZA, Questlove, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Taylor Hawkins, Willow, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Kirk Hammett, Coco Jones, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Charlie Puth, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, and Gary Clark Jr. And look for dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter is as good as any current pop star at cultivating controversy and attention \u2014\u00a0the latest evidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8245,88,216,8246,8247,8248],"class_list":{"0":"post-8107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-abba","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-olivia-rodrigo","12":"tag-rolling-stone-music-now","13":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}