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Emails I Can't Send (2022)

Where the lyrics of Emails I Can't Send take you, and where it was really made.

The album's theme is emails and messages Carpenter meant to send to others but kept private.

Key places

Recording at Jungle City Studios (2022)

Recording site Jungle City Studios — Jungle City Studios in New York City is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The album's recording was finished in New York City after Carpenter moved to Manhattan in June 2021. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Clubhouse Studios (2022)

Recording site The Clubhouse — Clubhouse Studios is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The credit does not give a specific track or session date. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Emails I Can't Send: fifth studio album by American singer Sabrina Carpenter
• Released 15 July 2022 through Island Records
• Primarily a pop and folk-pop record with elements of alternative pop, bedroom pop, electropop, storytelling and synth-pop
• Themed around emails and messages she intended to send to others but kept private
• Five singles: Skinny Dipping, Fast Times, Vicious, Because I Liked a Boy, Nonsense
• Deluxe edition Emails I Can't Send Fwd: released 17 March 2023, adding the single Feather
• Opens with the title-track intro and closes with Decode

Background

• June 2019: while promoting Singular: Act II, she told Marie Claire she had started work on a fifth album
• 2020: stand-alone single Honeymoon Fades and vocals for the Clouds soundtrack
• January 2021: signed to Island Records after four albums with Hollywood Records
• January 2021: first Island release, Skin
• September 2021: told Teen Vogue that many songs were written from emails she wrote to herself
• June 2021: moved to Manhattan's Financial District, where she finished recording in New York City
• Collaborators named in the recording period: Julia Michaels, JP Saxe, John Ryan and Leroy Clampitt

Recording

• Recording credited to Jungle City Studios (New York City) and Clubhouse Studios
• Mixing credited to Henson Recording Studios (Los Angeles) and MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach)
• Mastering credited to Sterling Sound (Edgewater)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and raised in East Greenville.
• She began studying voice at age six and posted YouTube covers of Christina Aguilera and Adele songs around age ten.
• In 2008 she entered the online singing contest The Next Miley Cyrus Project and placed third in 2010.
• She signed with Hollywood Records in 2014 and released her debut EP in April 2014.

Members

• Solo artist.

Career

• Breakthrough as Maya Hart on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017).
• Early albums Eyes Wide Open (2015), Evolution (2016), Singular: Act I (2018), and Singular: Act II (2019) had limited success.
• She joined Island Records in 2021 and released Emails I Can't Send (2022), which included the hit singles "Nonsense" and "Feather".
• Short n' Sweet (2024) topped the US Billboard 200, won two Grammy Awards, and produced the global number-one singles "Espresso" and "Please Please Please".
• Man's Best Friend (2025) also topped the Billboard 200 and produced the US number-one single "Manchild".
• She has acted in films including The Hate U Give (2018), Tall Girl (2019), and Work It (2020), and played Cady Heron on Broadway in Mean Girls (2020).
• She has won two Grammy Awards and six MTV Video Music Awards.

Reception

At release

• The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics
• Capital writer Savannah Roberts called it Carpenter's most personal album, saying it gave fans an intimate look into her life
• Vogue's Liam Hess described it as the most fully realized vision of Carpenter the musician
• The Edge writer Rhianna Saglani praised the collaboration with JP Saxe and called the album a piece of art in itself
• The Central Trend writer Ella Peirce called the album remarkable
• The Indiependent's Agnius Kazlauskas called it an emotional roller-coaster that explores the inner corners of Carpenter's mind
• Village Pipol's Indi Jimenez praised the songwriting as distinct and recognizable as Sabrina Carpenter's
• In Review Online's Kayla Beardslee called it one of the best pop surprises of the year but criticised its production choices
• The Strand Magazine's Siraaj Khan praised the new direction but felt some songs were not unique to Carpenter and called the album too commercial

Reappraisal

• Ranked on Rolling Stone and Billboard lists of the best albums of 2022

Records

• US Billboard 200: debuted at number 23 with 18,000 album-equivalent units, 7,000 of them pure album copies
• Canadian Albums Chart: debuted at number 55, later peaked at number 32
• ARIA Albums Chart: debuted at number 44, later peaked at number 27, her second and highest entry at the time
• UK Albums Chart: debuted at number 76, later peaked at number 21
• Top 30 in Argentina, Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album's title clue was hidden in the music video for Skinny Dipping, where the name appears in a Scrabble game
• On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Carpenter confirmed the title had been hidden in work released the year before
• During the tour, Nonsense was performed with a new alternate ending every night, and the variations went viral on TikTok
• The video for Feather, shot at the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn, drew polarised reviews, and the bishop said the parish did not follow diocesan filming policy
• Carpenter served as an opener for Taylor Swift at The Eras Tour, where she performed several songs from the album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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