Sabrina Carpenter: 'If You Tell An Artist How To Be One, Then They Aren't Going To Be An Artist'

Sabrina Carpenter steps out of the BBC Radios in London, England after an appearance on Thursday afternoon (November 15).

The 19-year-old singer recently spoke with W magazine about her new album, Singular Act 1 and how she took control of it all.

“From start to finish, every sound, every thing that you hear, every level in the mix, every ad-lib came from a place of me being myself,” Sabrina shared.

Sabrina added that working on the album for over two years, helped her find a confidence that she didn’t realize she had.

“There were times when I was 15 or 16 and I’d be in the recording studio singing and do some vibrato, and people would be like, ‘Can you just keep it straight?’ Then I realized later, ‘Wait, that’s my voice.’ You don’t realize until later that those little things make me Sabrina and differentiate me for different people.”

“The concept that I found for this album later on was that I wasn’t writing about confidence; I could just hear a new confidence embodied throughout it.”

“I know myself better than anybody, and I know my fans better than anybody, and that was one thing I had to constantly fight to get people to pay attention to,” she said. “If you tell an artist how to be an artist, then they aren’t going to be an artist. That is such a sound bite, but it’s true. I had to start taking control and really capitalize on that confidence.”