Sabrina Carpenter Says This Beatles Song Left Her Mesmerized As A Kid

LOADINGERROR LOADINGSabrina Carpenter couldn’t help but gush over The Beatles’ 1968 song “Rocky Raccoon” and the track’s primary writer Paul McCartney on Thursday.The pop star — in an interview with “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert — revealed that her father, David Carpenter, played her the song for the first time when she was “very, very young.”Advertisement “I was so mesmerized by that song and the songwriting of it that I fell in love with Paul McCartney.I was convinced that was my husband, my future husband” said Sabrina Carpenter, who has been nominated for six Grammy Awards including the “Best New Artist” category at the 2025 ceremony.The “Please Please Please” singer added that McCartney, who was age 56 when she was born, was “quite old” but she was “so young” when she heard the song so she didn’t understand the difference when she looked at photos of the music icon.The pop star, who achieved a feat on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this year that was once uniquely held by The Beatles, has previously showed love for “Rocky Raccoon” and included it in a playlist for Teen Vogue back in 2018.Advertisement “I remember [my dad] turning on this song and immediately I was like, ‘This is music?’” she told Teen Vogue at the time.“This song I think to a lot of people they were probably just thinking, ’Oh, the Beatles were high when they wrote this.

I mean, they were high, but also like there is such a story behind it and they kind of did that with all their songs and it made me really want to be a songwriter.”Carpenter met McCartney earlier this year.She told Colbert the moment brought tears to her eyes and felt like entering an alternate universe, like The Upside Down in “Stranger Things.”Advertisement “But a lot happier than ‘Stranger Things,’” she added.“But he was so sweet and the one thing I say about him is every room that he enters, he makes everyone feel seen and heard and...