Sabrina Carpenter reflects on lessons learned from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Sabrina Carpenter has opened up about how her experience supporting Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour influenced her own headline shows.

Speaking to Vogue, Carpenter reflected on her 25-date stint opening for Swift, noting, “Her stadiums make my shows look like clubs.” The singer elaborated on the impact of watching Swift perform, saying, “Watching her keep their attention as if she’s playing in their living room, it was like — and I told her this — ‘Your tour enabled me to do mine.’”

Carpenter also discussed the release strategy behind her album ‘Short n’ Sweet’, revealing that her label Island Records initially wanted ‘Please Please Please’ as the lead single. However, she pushed for ‘Espresso’ to be released first, with plans to debut it at Coachella. “There’s something about this song that, if I’d never heard it before, and I heard it live for the first time, I would understand it,” she explained. “I was definitely being swayed in another direction, but I knew deep down that it was this song. I was afraid of disappointing people for, like, five minutes. And then I was like: ‘No.’”