Sabrina Carpenter's third album, Singular: Act I, was another capital-M moment for the talented multi-hyphenate. She worked on it for close to two years. In an interview with W magazine, conducted just a couple days before the record dropped, she discussed what the album meant to her as an artist. "There were times when I was 15 or 16 and I'd be in the recording studio singing and do some vibrato, and people would be like, 'Can you just keep it straight?'" she shared. "Then I realized later, Wait, that's my voice. You don't realize until later that those little things make me Sabrina and differentiate me from different people."
Carpenter also revealed her struggles in getting producers to pay attention to who she is and to respect her as an artist in her own right. "I know myself better than anybody, and I know my fans better than anybody, and that was one thing I had to constantly fight to get people to pay attention to," she said. The singer explained that she had to "start taking control and really capitalize on that confidence" because otherwise her work wouldn't be able to make the art she wanted.
