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Sabrina Carpenter Sings "Eyes Wide Open" and talks 'Girl Meets World'

Sabrina Carpenter Sings "Eyes Wide Open" and talks 'Girl Meets World'

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Sabrina Carpenter performs her song "Eyes Wide Open" and discusses her social media bio, which incorporates a lyric from the song. She talks about her role on Disney Channel's 'Girl Meets World,' highlighting the show's evolving storylines and the cast's close bond. Carpenter also shares insights into her diverse musical styles, fashion inspirations, and answers fan questions about her favorite food, dance move, and embarrassing moments.

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Sabrina Carpenter visits the YH studio to perform her newest song "Eyes Wide Open"! She discusses her role on the show 'Girl Meets World', her different fashion styles and how she came up with her social media bio! She also answers some fan questions!

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Sabrina Carpenter

Hey, it's Sabrina Carpenter and this is Eyes Wide Open. Yeah. Everybody loves to tell me I was born an old soul Better keep my eyes wide open There's so much that I don't know

Young Hollywood

For the first lyric, it's all about, you know, you saying everyone thinks I'm an old soul. But it's funny because your Twitter bio also says that and your Instagram bio. You're like, everyone thinks I'm an old soul.

Sabrina Carpenter

Yeah. I'm an old soul. You know, I was like, what's a good Instagram bio, or what's a good Twitter bio after a long time because at first it was just like, I play my heart and I was like, I'm not, I'm not that businessy. So I was like, let's make something cool. So obviously I'm such a nerd that I used one of my own lyrics. But um, I'll change it I'm sure in a month or two.

Young Hollywood

Okay so what came first though? Was it the lyric of the song and then you were like, oh, that's a good, that's a perfect bio or was it the bio?

Sabrina Carpenter

I think so, because it was the lyric of the song and everybody does tell me that I'm an old soul. So I was like, hey, this, this works with life.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. And you're 16, right? You just turned 16.

Sabrina Carpenter

Just turned 16, yes.

Young Hollywood

First of all, I have to just show you this picture because it was like, there was so much perfection about it from your birthday party.

Sabrina Carpenter

Oh, thanks.

Young Hollywood

I mean everything about Oh, I mean, and then Ben Savage in it.

Sabrina Carpenter

Yeah. That's why it's perfect.

Young Hollywood

Exactly. But then your hair, I just have to talk about that.

Sabrina Carpenter

Thanks. It's crimped. It's kind of weird. I was like, let's be a modern Alice. What would a modern Alice do? And I was like, let's crimp it. I've never crimped my hair fully before because I could never find a good crimper. Um, luckily my hairstylist could because he's a hairstylist. Um, so yeah, crimped my whole head. And I can almost hear him now I gotta make him proud I keep my eyes Wide open

Young Hollywood

I watch a lot of your videos when you were growing up and you were like Oh, sorry. The cutest thing ever. You started singing, how old were you when you started singing?

Sabrina Carpenter

Oh, like as soon as I could talk. I think I was two. Music's always been like around me as long as I can remember. And it's just always been like just a huge passion.

Young Hollywood

Is it, do you love it more than acting or is it kind of just like goes hand-in-hand?

Sabrina Carpenter

Well, and that's that's a question I get a lot, but I think they're two totally separate things. Like you can't and I found acting a lot later than I found music. Um, but it's one of those things where music is something that you can, you know, you can really like, you can listen to it every day. You can, um, make videos and put music in the background. Like music is kind of like, you know, it's always around you. Whereas like acting is one of those things like you turn on the TV and there's acting, you turn on or like you go to the movies and there's acting, but it's not always around you. Well actually, I could be wrong. I mean, a lot of people are drama queens. So a lot of people act in real life. We're in Hollywood. So.

Young Hollywood

Right. That's true. That is that's a good point. It's true. The show, Girl Meets World. It's so awesome because we actually had the cast here, you know, yeah, we had Ben, we had Danielle and Rowan, before the show started. And it was just so interesting to sort of like hear like how it's a fresh take on Boy Meets World and sort of, you know, how it's progressed.

Sabrina Carpenter

Sure. Every week we get these scripts and we're like, wait, we're allowed to do this? Like it's, it's a story that we never thought that we'd be able to tell. Um, and it's also like, you can tell in our lines that they are just maturing. Like our comedy growth is maturing, everything in our characters. They're finding out, you know, things about their lives that we didn't even know yet. So, uh, there's a lot of stories that are starting to evolve now.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. So it's basically, I mean, it's you and Rowan, you know, Riley and, and Maya, you're basically just going through all like the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. I mean, right? Girl Meets World, right?

Sabrina Carpenter

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Are there any like crazy situations you guys get into?

Sabrina Carpenter

Every single week, girls, it wouldn't be a comedy. Um, but yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff. I mean, this season, obviously we're, we're digging into topics like uh, we just did an episode about autism, which was great. We did an episode about religion a couple weeks ago. Uh, this week is about creativity. So there's a lot of really cool things that we're stepping into, but making it also light and fun. I can't see two steps ahead of me When the fog comes rolling in I never thought I'd miss the rain God knows how long it's been

Young Hollywood

First of all, let's talk about your fashion and that actually before we get into everything because is that like your style, was it sort of, Oh, okay.

Sabrina Carpenter

Well the ball gown, no, I don't wear that every day. Um, but honestly I just

Young Hollywood

We all would love to.

Sabrina Carpenter

I would, really. I wanted to, um, just do something that I wouldn't do in everyday life, but I also wanted it to mix with something that I do in everyday life. So that's why the two outfits are totally different.

Young Hollywood

So what's like the meaning behind it? Like what do you want people to take away?

Sabrina Carpenter

The meaning behind the video is that there's still so much in life to learn, no matter how old you are. You still always have so many opportunities and so many doors that you haven't opened yet around the corner. Um, you just need to stay confident and keep your eyes wide open.

Young Hollywood

And your album, because like, I feel like every single song, it's a different personality of you. You have a lot of different styles. You kind of go into like a country vibe, but then you got like the pop vibes.

Sabrina Carpenter

Yes. It's so funny. Uh, ever since I was like, I, I love to sing Carrie Underwood when I was like nine years old. I mean like, I did Before He Cheats when I was nine years old and I didn't even know what that meant. Um, so I loved Carrie Underwood, but I never wanted to do country per se. I just always had I guess that type of sound. So I guess that came across in like some of my earlier music. I think that's the great thing about music. There's so many different things to dip into and, you know, I'm only 16. There's so much time to just explore. Yes. I keep my eyes wide open Bless this ground Unbroken I'm about to make my way Heaven I'll make my faith in my eyes Wide open

Young Hollywood

Your fans by the way, they're carpenters, right? Is that what, that's what the fandom?

Sabrina Carpenter

Sure. I I don't know, They're amazing. They're incredible. They're incredible. It's so funny. Like they just, they, they really create like a family like, they're very protective, but they're amazing.

Young Hollywood

Well, we have like a ton of, we got so many fan questions to you so I have to get to that.

Sabrina Carpenter

Oh, yes. They're so funny too. They're so witty. I love that about them because

Young Hollywood

Don't you love when they just like the random questions like you're like,

Sabrina Carpenter

Well, those are the best because they understand my humor. I was like, cuz sometimes like, I don't want to come across like, I'm sarcastic, but sometimes I come across mean and they're like, Sabrina, you're so sassy. I'm like, at least you know.

Young Hollywood

Okay. So this is from @SabrinaSparkles. She wants to know if you

Sabrina Carpenter

Nice name.

Young Hollywood

Nice name. She's she gave a lot of questions. It was hard to pick one. But she says if you could only live off of one food your entire life, what food would you choose?

Sabrina Carpenter

Oh, I would probably say chocolate. I mean like it depends, like, does it need to keep me healthy and nourished for the rest of my life because then I probably choose Mexican food. Not that that's the healthiest thing in the world, but I mean, I, I would say if it has to if it's like you got one choice, forget health, right? Chocolate, yeah. It'd be like chocolate cake probably.

Young Hollywood

Okay. And this is from @loraticfanatic. She wants to know what's your favorite dance move?

Sabrina Carpenter

A fouetté. That was so not what I was expecting. You're like I'm a torque. I don't know. I I'm no. I I would dance for 10 years, which a lot of people don't know that. But yeah, I I haven't been able to do a lot with dancing recently, but I was I was a dancer. So yeah, fouettés were pretty awesome.

Young Hollywood

Okay. This is from @Haroubrinou. Sorry if I pronounce that wrong. Um, what is the most embarrassing moment you've ever had in public?

Sabrina Carpenter

Whoa. Have you done anything embarrassing? Every day of my life is that. I always find myself being in public restrooms and being like, I think I'm in the bathroom alone. So I sing a lot. Like not not because I want to

Young Hollywood

Where you think you're in the bathroom alone and a public restroom?

Sabrina Carpenter

Sort of a habit. Yeah. Yes. Right. I check the stalls before. I make sure I'm alone. But then I start humming and I don't realize I'm humming. And then like people will come I don't know, it's just really embarrassing. People will always like walk in on me at like the worst times in my life. I don't have like a specific.

Young Hollywood

They probably hear this amazing voice come out and they're like, whoa.

Sabrina Carpenter

No, I'm like, I'm singing the worst in the bathroom. No, um, no, I think there's there's too many to count. I don't think there's a specific moment. We all have those moments.

Young Hollywood

Um, okay. This is from @Ritamusic143. She wants to know who's your biggest inspiration in fashion?

Sabrina Carpenter

There's a lot of models that have really good fashion. Uh, like I'm a big Cara fan. I literally don't know how to pronounce your last name. I've tried many times. I don't know what it is. I love her though. Um, Lily Collins and Chloe Moretz. I love their style. I don't know, it changes every day.

Young Hollywood

Is there something you're loving right now? Like for summer?

Sabrina Carpenter

Fringe is a really cool thing this summer. Um, I don't know though. I'm not going to like, I'm not like a fashion guru. I just like fringe personally. So I think I'll be wearing a lot of that this summer. And turtlenecks, which is a terrible idea this summer. Terrible idea. But I'm going to wear them.

Young Hollywood

Turtleneck this summer. All right. I'm wearing one right now. But actually I can

Sabrina Carpenter

No, it looks cute. Actually.

Young Hollywood

Thank you. Well I mean there's no way to do it in the summer, in the summer way. So yeah.

Sabrina Carpenter

Yeah. Our love is just as new And I don't want to miss a second 'Cause it could all be gone in an instant Yeah, in an instant I keep my eyes wide open

Young Hollywood

Awesome. And then lastly we do have some fans of yours in the studio. They're so cute. And they want to ask you one question. So we're going to have them join really quickly. Okay. Let's do it. Come on in, guys. Come sit in the middle.

Sabrina Carpenter

Should I move or should I, okay.

Young Hollywood

You're You guys sit here. We'll put you, we'll put the girls in the middle. Ready? You guys are all so cute. Okay. All right guys. So you all wanted to ask Sabrina a question. Let's start with Kennedy.

Kennedy

My name's Kennedy and what I wanted to ask is that what's your favorite song you wrote?

Sabrina Carpenter

There's two songs. There's uh, one from my album. It's one of the first songs I wrote called Too Young. That's one of my favorite songs because it's like the ballad of the album and it's beautiful. Um, but I'm biased. So, uh, and then another song is a song that I never released and I don't know if I ever will, but it's called Wonderland and I just love it because I'm a big Alice in Wonderland fan. So I wrote it based on that.

Adrian

My name is Adrian, what's your favorite color?

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite color is yellow. It's changed a lot throughout the years. It used to be pink, pink, pink. But now it's yellow. And I love black and white too. I'm I'm I'm like that person. But pink is still in my heart forever.

Eden

I'm Eden and um, how long does it take to like make one video of Girl Meets World?

Sabrina Carpenter

To make an episode. It takes, um, one week to make a full episode of Girl Meets World because we shoot for two days. We shoot on Mondays and Tuesdays and then we rehearse on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Jordan

My name is Jordan and I just wanted to know, like are you and Rowan best friends out of Girl Meets World or only like in?

Sabrina Carpenter

We are very lucky because we have an amazing cast where, um, the four of us kids Payton who plays Lucas and Corey who plays Farkle and Rowan who plays Riley, we're all very close and we've become like this family now, which is really cool because we're like brothers and sisters. Um, so we're very lucky. We're all really good friends. 'Cause I'm about to make my way Heaven I'll make my faith in my eyes Wide open I keep my Eyes Wide Open

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Artist performing and being interviewed

  • Ben Savage

    Co-star on 'Girl Meets World' mentioned at birthday party

  • Danielle Fishel

    Co-star on 'Girl Meets World' mentioned in context of cast

  • Rowan Blanchard

    Co-star on 'Girl Meets World', plays Riley

  • Carrie Underwood

    Country singer Sabrina admired at a young age

  • Cara Delevingne

    Fashion inspiration

  • Lily Collins

    Fashion inspiration

  • Chloe Moretz

    Fashion inspiration

  • Kennedy

    Fan asking a question

  • Adrian

    Fan asking a question

  • Eden

    Fan asking a question

  • Jordan

    Fan asking a question

FAQ

What song does Sabrina Carpenter perform in this video?+
Sabrina Carpenter performs her song "Eyes Wide Open" in the video.
What is Sabrina Carpenter's role on 'Girl Meets World'?+
Sabrina Carpenter plays Maya Hart on the show 'Girl Meets World', who is Riley's best friend.
What is Sabrina Carpenter's social media bio?+
Sabrina Carpenter's social media bio says, "everyone thinks I'm an old soul," which is also a lyric from her song "Eyes Wide Open."
Who are some of Sabrina Carpenter's fashion inspirations?+
Sabrina Carpenter's fashion inspirations include Cara Delevingne, Lily Collins, and Chloe Moretz.
How long does it take to film an episode of 'Girl Meets World'?+
It takes one week to make a full episode of 'Girl Meets World', with shooting on Mondays and Tuesdays, and rehearsals on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
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