{"id":123161,"date":"2024-08-06T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=123161"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:55:24","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-almost-did-not-release-her-smash-hit-espresso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/sabrina-carpenter-almost-did-not-release-her-smash-hit-espresso\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter almost did not release her smash hit &#8220;Espresso&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> released one of the most indisputable bops this year! &#8220;<em><strong>Espresso<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; the main single from her upcoming album &#8220;<em><strong>Short n&#8217; Sweet<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, the song has spent 16 weeks in the tally, reaching a peak of No. 3. The track also had dazzling performances at Coachella and Saturday Night Live, making Sabrina Carpenter the ultimate artist to watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g3hPBfZi7uE?si=_XviZTY71bzqSVgD\" title=\"Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (Live On Saturday Night Live \/ 2024)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3hPBfZi7uE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>But guess what? &#8220;<em>Espresso<\/em>&#8221; almost did not make it as a single!<\/strong> In a recent interview with Variety, the 25-year-old singer revealed that the big fish in her label were not too convinced about dropping this track as a single. Actually, it kind of looked like she was the only one advocating for the fun-pop anthem to become the starting point of her new era.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;I was completely alone in wanting to release \u2018Espresso.\u2019 Not so much from my immediate team. But when it came to \u2018the powers above,\u2019&#8221; she air-quoted, &#8220;there was a lot of questioning behind whether it made sense. But they trusted me in the end, and I was happy that I believed in myself at that moment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Variety.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Variety.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Variety-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Variety-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Variety-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the rest is history! &#8220;Espresso&#8221; has gone on to become one of the biggest songs this year, propelling Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s career to a new height. The track officially made her an A-lister in the music industry, sparked interest in the follow-up single &#8220;<em><strong>Please Please Please<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; and set up expectations for the release of her album, out on August 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Carpenter released one of the most indisputable bops this year! &#8220;Espresso,&#8221; the main single from her upcoming album &#8220;Short n&#8217; Sweet&#8221; debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, the song has spent 16 weeks in the tally, reaching a peak of No. 3. The track also had dazzling performances at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":123184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,4],"tags":[1358],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-pop","9":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123161"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=123161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}