THE SONGWRITING PROCESS of Sabrina Carpenter‘s new song, “Fast Times,” started with sampling a tequila bottle and playing drums with some pencils. The singer — who dropped the sexy, playful pop song and video at midnight on Thursday — was chillin’ in New York with her “closest friends” Julia Michaels, J.P. Saxe and John Ryan when they co-wrote the track.
“We weren’t taking ourselves too seriously making it, which really reflects the energy of the song,” Carpenter tells Rolling Stone. Not “taking herself seriously” has also been her approach to life as she approaches 23. “[It’s] really about the feeling when you’re letting life steer the wheel and you think ‘Let me enjoy this now and I’ll process the emotional repercussions of this later,’” she explains. “[It’s] very indicative of my 20s thus far.”
