For the past 18 months or so, Sabrina Carpenter has been on the hottest of hot streaks, releasing hit after hit after hit. As such, she’s a worthy winner of Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year award, but speaking as she accepted it, Carpenter reflected on how long it took her to learn to write the kinds of all-conquering pop songs that she’s become famous for.
As has been well-documented, Carpenter had released a lot of music before she made her big commercial breakthrough with 2024’s Espresso, and she admits that, for a while, she was flailing.
