Sabrina Carpenter is here with her new album titled Singular Act II. To kick off the album pre release she has released a new single off the mysic project titled “Exhale.”
The release of the song touches on her emotions surrounding anxiety, its arrival wasn’t specifically tied to the month of mental health awareness. Fortunately, Sabrina says the timing was perfect, and a song that she had been nervous about sharing made its way into the world at the exact right time.
“Anxiety is a very hard topic to put in a bubble,” she said. “I don’t think you know what it is because it is a thousand questions that you can’t answer. Sometimes it feels like you can’t breathe; you don’t know where to start, you don’t know where to begin to start feeling better and to start healing yourself.”
So at a recent recording session, she began to put down thoughts, that turned into lyrics like, “Who put the baby in charge? / It’s already hard to buy all the parts and learn to use them. / Who put the world on my back and not in my hands?” For the accompanying video, Sabrina is seated in a field, and she sings of wanting just a minute to collect herself, asking, “Can I exhale for a minute? / Can I get this out in the open? / Can I sit down for a second? / Can I breathe?”
Sabrina Carpenter had called anxiety her “biggest struggle,” but she shied away from singing about it. “I never wanted anybody to feel like I was complaining… I have so many things to be grateful for,” she told MTV News. But she credits a switch in thinking with helping her open up when she needs to.
“It’s taking that second to remind yourself that just because you have so much to be grateful for doesn’t mean that there aren’t things you’re internally struggling with.”
Singular Act 2 out 7/19
Preorder live 6/7 pic.twitter.com/itlJStaCvv— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) June 4, 2019
Tracklist:
1.In My Bed
2.Pushing 20
3.I Can’t Stop Me (feat. Saweetie)
4.I’m Fakin
5.Take Off All Your Cool
6.Tell Em
7.Exhale
8.Take You Back
9.Looking at Me
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