The country influence on Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please is pretty obvious - she went as far as to release a second version of it that features none other than Dolly Parton - but producer Jack Antonoff says that, when the song was being created, he had some different classic artists in mind.
In a new sneak peek video of his Mix with the Masters breakdown of the song, Antonoff says: “So I wanted this song to feel like discovery. I wanted it to feel like someone getting their hands on something for the first time and being, you know, shocked and freaked out by it. But in this Jeff Lynne/Abba concept, you know, you start in a very organic ‘song is God’ place, which is always a great place to start, but when we were writing it it was really about, in many ways, the structure of a country song that tells a story.”
