Sabrina Carpenteris letting listeners run with their own theories about her latest single.
The 21-year-old singer/actress recently debuted her song,“Skin,“which fans quickly ran with as an apparent response to 17-year-old Olivia Rodrigo’s No. 1 hit, “Drivers License.” Carpenter’s tune sparked furtherintrigue in the supposed love triangle dramainvolving Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, who has also worked with Carpenter.
While appearing onThe Late Late Show with James CordenTuesday night, Carpenter said that “Skin” has fans assigning different meanings to her own words.
“People will make a narrative out of something always, you know?” she told host Corden, who jested that she was “skirting around” the controversy linked to the song. “I think this was like a really interesting song for people to kind of misinterpret and make it into something that it wasn’t really supposed to be in the first place.”
“But I’ve just been enjoying making music,” she concluded with a smile.
From L to R: Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett.ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty; Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic; JC Olivera/WireImage
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Fans initially thought Rodrigo’s lyrics were about Bassett andhis new rumored relationship with Carpenterbased on “clues,” including the line: “You’re probably with that blonde girl, who always made me doubt.”
In turn, fans believed Carpenter’s “Skin” was a response to Rodrigo’s song, telling her that she isn’t going to let her fellow Disney star’s words get under her skin — plus a line that says “Maybe ‘blonde’ was the only rhyme.” However, Carpenter took to social media torefute those claims, saying that the song “isn’t calling out one single person.”
“some lines address a specific situation, while other lines address plenty of other experiences I’ve had this past year,” Carpenter continued. “it also shows that many things have actually gotten under my skin.. and I’m still learning to not give other people so much power over my feelings. I know a lot of you struggle with the same thing.”
source: people.com
