It’s Sabrina Carpenter’s world right now, and we’re all just living in it. She has released the song of the summer (if “ Espresso ” isn’t currently stuck in your head, you’re in a minority). She has been on tour with Taylor Swift , released a music video with Oscar-nominated actor (and rumoured boyfriend) Barry Keoghan and now she is on the cover of Rolling Ston e magazine.
The accompanying interview includes lots of juicy details about her life and her experience of fame, but there’s one part which has made waves on the internet, while talking about her song writing. Carpenter says, almost as a throw away: “Those real moments where I’m just a 25-year-old girl who’s super horny are as real as when I’m going through a heartbreak and I’m miserable and I don’t feel like a person.” It might feel a bit backwards to focus on the horny bits of Sabrina’s interview – she comes over so smart and composed and mature, with such a genuine wit.
The only reason it’s interesting or noteworthy is because for so much of pop history, it’s been so rare. You were allowed to look sexy, dance sexy, sing sexy, dress sexy, but you absolutely were not supposed to want to have sex. If a female popstar in the pre-2020s was talking about sex, it was part of a rebrand ahead of a doomed third album, not a young woman at the height of her fame and power casually acknowledging that she has a sex drive.
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