Sabrina Carpenter 5th Studio Album: Everything We Know

Does Sabrina Carpenter have new music in the works? The former Disney Channel star started teasing music in August 2021, and fans freaked out! Now, they’re gearing up for the record, titled Emails I Can’t Send.

“It’ll be a Wednesday,” Sabrina shared via Instagram, alongside a clip of what appeared to be a new song. Days later, she announced the song’s title, “Skinny Dipping,” via Instagram Reels.

In the short clip, the Girl Meets World alum is holding a boom box on her head while sitting on a balcony and mouthing along to the song.

“It gave me, as Sabrina, the opportunity to get a little bit closer with my own voice and myself,” the actress told Flaunt magazine in June 2021 about how she created new music amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “Being alone in a room with a piano, and being able to send those ideas to my friends, and not having them being over-thought or touched too much was great. It gave me a little bit more time, whereas before I had to leave the studio with a full song done and nothing beforehand. I try not to go in with a specific mission of a thing I want to make, because it may take you down the wrong path and not allow you to be as creative as possible.”

Following her start on the fan-favorite Disney Channel series, Sabrina released her debut studio album, Eyes Wide Open, in April 2015. Since then, she’s dropped three more records — Evolution, Singular: Act I and Singular: Act II — and is officially working on a fifth, which she told Flaunt was a “sonic universe.”

“This whole quarantine, it has been like, ‘Well, you know what, it doesn’t need to be perfect. I’m just going to put it out as is, c’est la vie, and see how it goes,'” she told the publication. “Because I’ll put something out, and be like, ‘Ah I wish I could change that, just a little bit.’ So, I’m trying not to overthink it right now, but I am trying to make sure it tells the story I want to tell. So, I’m taking my time with it.”

And this time around, Sabrina is in full control.

“This was finally the album where I got to just have fun and f–k around and not take everything so seriously, because it wasn’t like, you gotta go in the studio and make a song [in a specific way],” she told Teen Vogue in September 2021. “It was completely and entirely just me steering the ship.”

Scroll through our gallery for everything we know about Sabrina’s 5th album so far.

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‘Not About Joshua Bassett’

Sabrina squashed all rumors that her song “Nonsense” was about ex-boyfriend Joshua Bassett during her Los Angeles concert on October 15, 2022.

“I’ve got a great personality but no t-ts,” the actress sang, going off-script in the track’s outro before adding, “This song is not about Joshua Bassett.” LOL, message received.

5th Album Confirmation

Flaunt magazine’s June 2021 interview with Sabrina confirms that the actress was working on her fifth record while starring in Tall Girl 2 and starting production on an Alice in Wonderland remake.

“I started writing emails to myself in the beginning of quarantine as a way of kind of not going insane. And I realized the type of venting emails that you write out, but never plan on sending are the most authentic, real part of your brain that you can capture in that moment, because you’re not worried about how people are going to hear it or how they’re going to perceive you after they hear it,” she explained during an interview on “At Home With” on Apple Music 1. “So, basically, the songs that I’ve been writing for the last year have come from the starts of those emails.”

Creating the Record

“I think a huge thing that I set out to do when I started writing my next album in general was the fact that I was like, ‘If I start getting in my head about when people hear it and what they think about it, I’m not gonna be honest, I’m genuinely just not gonna write what I actually wanna write,’” she told Teen Vogue. “Because I’ll be considerate and think about people that I love and care about, which is good and bad at the same time. … I can write about other people’s experiences, but I just don’t think I would be able to understand other people’s emotions the way I can try to understand my own.”

Telling Her Truth

When speaking with Apple Music 1, Sabrina explained that this is “a very honest record.”

“I’ve learned a lot and, essentially, this next record for me, feels like the first one where I am myself,” she shared. “I just think that there’s a lot that I’ve learned and now a lot that I can kind of honestly reflect and look back on and see things with clear eyes and see people’s intentions with clear eyes and see moments where I could have gone left instead of right. And if it would’ve made a difference, doesn’t matter, you can’t change that. But it’s been that combined with, you said this earlier, but the music that I grew up on and how that’s really shaped me and working with these people that understand music better than anyone. And I think that it’s been a really beautiful, just fun process, which is all I could ever ask for.”

Praising Her Fans

“I think it’s really, really the most incredible thing that the fans have stuck with me this long because you could never ask for that. I could truly never ask for the love and dedication that they give me,” Sabrina told Entertainment Tonight in February 2022. “What I am also so lucky about is that it doesn’t feel like work. The fact that it’s that kind of a relationship with them, it just makes me want to give them the world and I’m very grateful for that.”

‘Fast Times’

The second single from her upcoming record is titled “Fast Times,” which she released in February 2022.

“It encourages you to take life a little less seriously,” Sabrina told Bustle of the song in March 2022. “So, I picture my fans listening to this song while getting dressed and pumping themselves up, or even screaming it in the car with their friends. That’s the way I’ve experienced the song, so hopefully they’ll do the same thing.”

What to Expect

“It’s so hard to describe music without listening to it, so keep that in mind as I’m about to describe it,” she told Bustle of the upcoming record. “I think the main difference is that I focused on the idea that no one is who they were when they were 18 or 19 years old. And no one is the same person when they were 22 years old, which is how old I am now. We’ve all been through a lot of extremes, and that was helpful in a lot of ways for my growth, not only as a person, but also as an artist. So I used that idea and put it into my music.”