At just over five feet tall, Sabrina Carpenter is one of the giants of the pop world.Her latest album, "Short n' Sweet," debuted at #1.
But that's not the half of it: Her first three singles – "Espresso," "Please Please Please" and "Taste" – all hit the top five of Billboard's Hot 100 in the same week.The only other music act to do that was The Beatles back in 1964.It's a testament to her talent, and the will to keep going no matter what."Sunday Morning" met Carpenter at a rehearsal studio in rural Pennsylvania, not far from where she grew up – a place to practice her stage show in relative privacy away from the paparazzi.
She said it feels like home to her: "The air is better, the water's better, the bread's better." Her new concert stage is a giant dollhouse, with a piano, a fireplace, a bedroom, and a long, curved staircase that she navigates in heels.There's also an army of support people behind the scenes, but the show itself is all Sabrina.
Beneath all the frilly outfits is a backbone of steel. Asked what might be the biggest misconception about her, Carpenter laughed, "How much time do we have? I think a misperception is that I don't write my music.I think a lot of people think because I have, you know, a producer and co-writers that I love, that I'm sitting in the room on my phone, not writing songs."In fact, she wrote or co-wrote all of her recent songs. At just 25, with her clever lyrics playing everywhere and her face on the image head to toe on the latest issue of Time magazine, Sabrina Carpenter seems to have just exploded on the music scene.
But it took her more than a decade to get here. She's one of four girls born to Elizabeth and David Carpenter, and young Sabrina showed a love of music early on."They never told me to 'stop singing,'" she said.
"And I think that, like, psychologically, really probably helped me." She started posting singing videos on YouTube, and then at 13 she earned a part in the D...