Sabrina Carpenter Just Revealed All of Her Childhood Crushes
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In “Slim Pickins,” off her sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter ends the song with the following line: “Since the good ones call their exes wasted / And since the Lord forgot my gay awakening / Then I'll just be here in the kitchen / Serving up some moanin' and b*tchin'.”
Now, we have no idea what goes on in Carpenter's kitchen — aside from the fact that she lights her sage with the stove — but what we do know is that she wasn't lying about the first part, and we are not talking about drunk-calling your ex. In a new video with W Mag pegged to a new cover story, Carpenter opened up about her celeb childhood crushes, and I guess the Lord truly did forget her gay awakening.
In the video, which you can watch below, Carpenter was asked to share the names of people she had a crush on. “It's funny, all the posters on my wall were women,” Carpenter admitted with a smile. “All my girl crushes were Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande," she admitted before trailing off and admitting she was just trying to make the most of her Tiger Beat posters.
She might not have had a gay awakening despite all the posters, but she did, in fact, have a “straight awakening” — we'll just call it that — thanks to none other than Zac Efron. “I had a very dangerous Zac Efron phase when he was playing Link in Hairspray,” Carpenter admits in the video. “He was dancing, and he was singing, and that's obviously up my alley, and I love hair, and I was blown away.”
Carpenter also shared that she actually got to meet Efron when she was 12 at a Fourth of July celebration on a beach. “I saw him, and I walked up to him, and I said, ‘I’m a big fan of your work.' And he gave me a hug. I remember being like, 'Oh my god, he wasn't wearing a shirt, and he gave me a hug. I was like, ‘This is amazing; I’m never washing my body.'"
HAIRSPRAY, Zac Efron (front left), Brittany Snow (front right), 2007. ?New Line/courtesy Everett Col
In the actual interview with W Mag, Carpenter opened up about her career beginnings and recording “Espresso” in France during a brief break from touring with, would you look at at that, her childhood crush Taylor Swift.
“I was in a ghost town that had one little creperie down the road. I had my shot of espresso, and then I might have had some champagne, and before I knew it, the song was written," she shared. “I definitely hear it now in every car I get into, and being on the radio, to me, is still — it’s like fate. You have to be at the right place at the right time.”
Related: Is Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet a No-Skip Album? Almost.
Carpenter also opened up about having fans dissect the references in her songs to try and extrapolate them to real-life happenings and gossip, admitting that while she feels it's natural, she'll probably never explicitly explain her inspirations. “I get why people are interested,” she told W. “But they can listen to my album and decide for themselves what the songs are about.”
Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue
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