Sabrina Carpenter References ‘Death Threats’ After Olivia Rodrigo-Joshua Bassett Backlash In New Song

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Sabrina Carpenter has a very different view of events from most people. On Friday, the 23-year-old singer released her new album, Emails I Can’t Send, on which she addresses the backlash she received after Olivia Rodrigo debuted “Drivers License”.

Rodrigo’s song was about Joshua Bassett, with whom she had a relationship, and who began dating Carpenter soon after they broke up. READ MORE: Sabrina Carpenter Was ‘Traumatized’ By ‘Emergency’ Storyline In Carpenter’s new track “Because I Liked a Boy”, she addresses the fallout from being one of the unnamed subjects of Rodrigo’s song. “Now I’m a homewrecker/I’m a slut/I got death threats…” she sings on the track. “Tell me who I am, ’cause I don’t have a choice/All because I liked a boy.” In an article at Rolling Stone, Carpenter talks more about the song and her motivation for it. “Now, looking back on it, the last two or three years of my life, that song came from a really real place in my life, so it didn’t feel right to not kind of write that song.

But at the same time, I’ve had so many people that have heard it tell me how much they relate to it in their own way,” she says. “Like, ‘I went through years where people were believing all these things that people were saying about me that weren’t true.’” She adds, “It was very therapeutic to write that song from hindsight and being like, ‘Wow, one thing leads to another and things can really get out of hand.’ Just being able to own it at the end of the day, and not let it determine who you are.” Carpenter also says, “So many people probably have dealt with the situation of being labelled something that they’re not.