Sabrina Carpenter reacts after learning only 200 vinyl copies of her debut album were made: “Damn, they really didn’t give a fuck about me”

Sabrina Carpenter has joked that her label “really didn’t give a fuck” about her after learning there were only 200 copies of her debut album made for vinyl.

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Veteran Canadian interviewer Nardwuar recently interviewed the pop star at Los Angeles’ Record Safari shop, where she looked back at her 2015 debut ‘Eyes Wide Open’ after being shown a vinyl even she didn’t own.

“Oh, I love this album. Every song’s a 10,” she said of the record, which included tracks like ‘We’ll Be The Stars’, the lyrics to which she briefly forgot. “This is my debut album,” Carpenter said while clutching the record. “I don’t even have it, that’s how rare it is.”

Nardwuar pointed out that there were only 200 made to be “given to record execs,” then asked: “Not given to you?”

Carpenter replied: “No. Or maybe at the time, but I don’t know. I moved a couple of times in the middle. Only 200 made? Damn. They really didn’t give a fuck about me!”

“I can feel the progression, Sabrina, from this to right now,” Nardwuar continued, touching on the evolution of her pop presentation. She responded: “I think I might have been funnier then. I just wasn’t able to get away with some of the comments that I can make now.”

It comes after the singer’s seventh studio album ‘Man’s Best Friend’ arrived late last month (August 29), having been previewed by the “song of the summer” ‘Manchild’. The same day the record dropped, Carpenter admitted the album wasn’t for the “pearl clutchers” and addressed the controversy surrounding its cover.

Following its release, the record scored a four-star review from NME, with Nick Levine writing: “Musically, this album isn’t markedly different from its predecessor, though it has a few more country-leaning cuts sprinkled among the daytime disco and featherlight funk.

“It also sticks to Carpenter’s winning formula of pairing sticky melodies with pithy lyrics about the flaws and allure of inadequate males. If there were a Bechdel Test for pop albums, ‘Man’s Best Friend’ wouldn’t be in danger of passing it.”

More recently, Carpenter turned the 2025 MTV VMAs into a huge dance party with a performance of ‘Tears’ that saw her advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights.

Elsewhere in the evening, she walked away with the Album Of The Year award for last year’s ‘Short N’ Sweet’, as well as Best Pop Artist and Best Visual Effects for her ‘Manchild’ music video. During her acceptance speech for Album Of The Year, Carpenter doubled down on her support for the queer community, thanking her “queens on stage”.

“This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity,” she said. “So to get to be part of something that can bring light, make you smile, make you dance, and make you feel like the world is your fucking oyster. I’m so grateful to do that.”

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