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Sabrina Carpenter on being part of Taylor Swift's 12th album: 'So thrilled and honored'

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Sabrina Carpenter expressed her excitement to be part of the upcoming 12th studio album of Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl.Taylor collaborated with Sabrina for the title track of the record.&quot;I&#x27;m just so thrilled and honored,&quot; she remarked on their collaboration in an interview with Gayle King in CBS Mornings.The &quot;Espresso&quot; hitmaker highlighted how she was inspired by Taylor since she was young. &quot;I&#x27;ve been looking up to her since I was [young]. I remember the first time I heard a song by her, I was 8 years old on the school bus. My life was changed,&quot; she stated.The Life of a Showgirl is set to be released on October 3.<div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBuaITCS5mL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=="></a></div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBuaITCS5mL/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1602204.900000006%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="567" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div> </div>In a recent interview on the New Heights podcast, Taylor relayed that the album tells the story of her life offstage.&quot;This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during [the Eras] tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,&quot; she said. &quot;It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervescence has come through on this record.&quot;The singer shared that she created the album alongside music producers Max Martin and Shellback whom she considers her mentors. They previously worked together in hit tracks like &quot;We Are Never Getting Back Together,&quot; &quot;Blank Space,&quot; &quot;Shake It Off,&quot; and &quot;Delicate.&quot; The last time they have worked together was on Taylor&#x27;s Reputation album.&quot;We&#x27;ve never actually made an album before where it&#x27;s just the three of us. There&#x27;s no other collaborators. It&#x27;s just the three of us making a focused album where it felt like catching lightning in a bottle,&quot; she said. &quot;These guys — they are just geniuses in different avenues, in different ways.&quot;The &quot;Blank Space&quot; hitmaker relayed that The Life of a Showgirl will only have 12 tracks, which was far from what she envisioned for her previous album, The Tortured Poets Department.&quot;With Tortured Poets Department, I was like, here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs,” she recalled. “This is 12. There’s not a thirteenth, there’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,&quot; she highlighted.She added: &quot;I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn&#x27;t take one out and it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be… It&#x27;s just right.”

Taylor Swift collaborated with Sabrina Carpenter for the title track 'The Life of a Showgirl'.

Taylor Swift collaborated with Sabrina Carpenter for the title track 'The Life of a Showgirl'.