Sabrina Carpenter continued her big week of press with another major interview following her Rolling Stone story. Carpenter spoke to Vanity Fair more about her music, friendship with Taylor Swift, and navigating dating in the spotlight.
Carpenter, who opened for Swift’s Eras Tour earlier this year, was asked about whether Swift gave her any advice about handling public relationships. Swift, of course, has a long history of dating other celebrities and is currently with Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce. Carpenter, meanwhile is dating actor Barry Keoghan, who co-starred with her in her “Please Please Please” music video.
Carpenter hesitated when asked about Swift offering any tips, saying, “I don’t think that there’s ever a how-to book on any of this stuff.” She acknowledged the public interest in her love life and how her art adds to the intrigue: “It’s a lot of what I’m writing about, and it’s a lot of what inspires me.” While her music is intimate, it covers the full scope of her life, she explained, not just her love life: “This is my diary. Once I put it out there, it’s for other people to interpret. I try to not tell people what a song is explicitly about. People don’t always know what’s going on inside the minds of anyone, let alone a young girl who’s navigating love and a lot of things for the first time.”
Of Swift herself, Carpenter had nothing but praise: “It is magnificent to grow up idolizing someone, and then meet them, and they are all the things that you hoped that they would be. On a personal level, she’s really been there for me, and I’m so grateful. That’s something she’s taught me really well—she has remained very human throughout all of it.”
Carpenter didn’t really talk about Keoghan in the interview, but she did admit that she didn’t warn him about one “Nonsense” outro that referenced him and his film Saltburn (“Made his knees so weak, he had to spread mine / He’s drinkin’ my bathwater like it’s red wine”). “Maybe I should do that [give him a heads-up next time],” she said. “I guess it’s a little too late now.”