Yahoo Lifestyle Sabrina Carpenter Was Asked How She Navigated Releasing A Brutal Diss Track About Her Own Father After He Cheated On Her Mom, And Her Response Is Low-Key Iconic
Sabrina Carpenter has opened up about how she navigated releasing a seriously brutal diss track about her dad cheating on her mom — despite her parents staying together and him very much remaining a big part of her life.
For context, the song is the opening and title track of Sabrina’s 2022 album, Emails I Can’t Send, and the star does not hold back in the lyrics.
“You wanna discuss, ugh, you disgust me,” Sabrina sings at one point. “Don’t make me cuss you out / Why’d you let me down? / Don’t say sorry now.”
She then tells her dad that because of him, she “can’t love right” and finds herself villainizing “nice guys” because she fears they will cheat on her.
“I blame you for / Every worst that I assume,” Sabrina goes on, and in case there was any doubt over who the song is about, she adds: “When I'm forty-five, someone calls me their wife / And he fucks our lives in one selfish night / Don't think I'll find forgiveness as fast as mom did / And, God, I love you, but you're such a dipshit.”
“You were all I looked up to / Now I can’t even look at you,” Sabrina concludes, before quipping in a sassy outro: “I mean, as they say in Chicago, ‘He had it coming.’”
As the song states, Sabrina’s mom, Elizabeth, forgave her dad, David, for his indiscretion, and the two are still together and live in Palmdale, California.
Sabrina has remained incredibly close with her family amid her astronomic ascent to fame over the last year, and in her new Vogue profile, both of her parents were backstage with her as she prepared for the San Diego date of her sold-out Short N’ Sweet tour.
And with her relationship with her father seemingly going strong, it’s understandable that Sabrina was asked about how he reacted to her airing the family’s dirty laundry to the entire world less than three years ago.
Discussing the way the song in question sees her analyze her own relationships as a direct result of her father, Sabrina told Vogue: “Why do we end up loving the people we love later in life? That song just really made a lot of things make sense for me.”
And when asked about how her dad learned of the song’s existence, she quipped: “Sure as hell did not play it for him in person.”
“I sent it to my mother first,” she explained, before admitting: “There were definitely feelings involved.”
However, the star remained defiant as she pointed out: “But you birthed me, so you kind of have to deal with the repercussions.”
Needless to say, Sabrina’s fans are pretty obsessed with this response, with one person writing as they reacted to the quotes on X: “‘You birthed me, so you kind of have to deal with the repercussions’ is going right to the top of my arguments list.”
Another agreed: “I'm gonna start using that last quote way too much.”
Somebody else added: “something every person in their 20’s needs to have in their lexicon god it’s so pertinent.”
While one more said of Sabrina: ”I am happy knowing sabrina will never let men have peace.”
And another admitted: “i always wondered what sabrina carpenter’s dad thought about her singing about his infidelity, to the world. cuz that’s insane to me.”
You can read the full lyrics to “Emails I Can’t Send” below — let me know what you make of them in the comments!
It's times like these wish I had a time machine
So I could see what you did October thirteenth
At 10:15, were you really asleep?
Were you lying to me and the family?
There's no us in us when I'm lacking trust
You wanna discuss, ugh
You disgust me
Don't make me cuss you out
Why'd you let me down?
Don't say sorry now
And thanks to you I, I can't love right
I get nice guys and villainize them
Read their texts like they're having sex right now
Scared I'll find out that it's true
And if I do, then I blame you for
Every worst that I assume
When I'm forty-five, someone calls me their wife
And he fucks our lives in one selfish night
Don't think I'll find forgiveness as fast as mom did
And, God, I love you, but you're such a dipshit
Please fucking fix this
'Cause you were all I looked up to
Now I can't even look at you
I mean, as they say in Chicago
"He had it coming"
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