The latest celeb to take on the gauntlet of chicken wings, Sabrina Carpenter joined host Sean Evans on a new episode of Hot Ones, to chow down on some super spicy chicken and answer some questions.
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For the first wing, Sean brought up how he finds it fascinating that major hit “Nonsense” almost didn’t make the emails i can’t send tracklist. Asking Sabrina if “there’s a lesson to be learned there, and if so how might it have influenced or shaped your approach to making a tracklist this time around,” for her upcoming album Short n’ Sweet, dropping August 23.
“It made me want to trust my personal favorites a little bit more. I think like when you’re making a record over time, you want to play it for your best friends, you want to play it for your family, and then you start to get in your head a little bit on everyone’s favorites,” Sabrina said.
“I think the lesson I learned with ‘Nonsense’ was that this song was so kindred with my personality and I started to get so in my head on like what fits a record versus what fits like Sabrina or myself as an artist. And that taught me so many lessons moving forward, making the next record. I think now whatever feels the most honest and connects with me the most, I feel like will connect with other people.”
From there, the wings got spicier, and the questions kept coming. With Sabrina answering Sean’s inquiries about certain lyrics hitting just right, her vocal maintenance routine, most awkward concert crowd conversation moment, and more.
For wing six, kind of circling back to talking about lyrics that hit, Sabrina discussed the topic of misheard lyrics, and the public reaction to the line “me, espresso” in her summer smash “Espresso.”
“I do like to pay attention to if people can understand lyrics because so much of what I like is, you know, the punchline, and if people don’t get the punchline, it’s like a waste of 30 seconds,” Carpenter said. “And I’m learning as I go. I don’t think I have it all figured out, but that’s like how I feel about ‘me, espresso.’”
“I’ve heard a lot of people that we’re like, ‘She should have said, ‘That’s that blonde espresso, duh,' and I’m like well yes, that is another song I think as well that deserves it’s spot in the world,” Sabrina continued. “But this one for me was like you know, ‘me, espresso’ just felt like the right thing to say and it rhymes with the line before it and just all the reasons. I just think it’s so funny, maybe everyone’s right.”
Sabrina also chatted what she looks for when selecting songs cover, how special it was to headline Musikfest in Bethlehem, and followed up the last dab with a doodle inspired by her experience with the wings of death.
To catch it all, watch Sabrina’s full Hot Ones episode below.