Sabrina Carpenter new song “Because I Liked A Boy” has been making rounds on social media as many people are now discussing it, know the meaning of the song lyrics
On July 14, Sabrina Carpenter released her newest song, “Because I Liked a Boy.” As a result, people along with her fans went wild, because of how significant a step this track is in the convoluted circumstances involving her, musician Joshua Bassett, and actress Olivia Rodrigo.
Since then, a lot of people have been talking about and researching the truth and relevance of song lyrics. On the internet, everyone has gone crazy, and this song has been a popular subject on several social networking sites. So, let’s learn more about what’s happening and what the songs actually meant:
Because I Liked A Boy Song Lyrics Meaning, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo And Joshua Bassett Drama And Controversy Explained
i’m a homewrecker, i’m a slut
i got death threats filling up semi trucks
tell me who i am, guess i don’t have a choice
all because i liked a boy— sabrina carpenter lyrics bot (@brinalyricsbot) July 15, 2022
EMAILS I CANT SEND TONIGHT @ MIDNITE EST + because i liked a boy video💌 doing a special live with @youtubemusic right after the video drops AHHHH THIS DONT FEEL REAAAL SEE YOU THERE I LOVE YOU GUYS pic.twitter.com/dJv6j6NHhM
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) July 14, 2022
In a brand-new song, Sabrina Carpenter sings of getting “death threats” and “slut-shamed” while making indirect references to Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett. The fifth single from her fifth studio album, “Emails I Can’t Send,” “Because I Liked a Boy,” was released by the 23-year-old singer-songwriter on Friday.
The pop ballad appears to speak to the criticism Carpenter received after Rodrigo’s debut single “Drivers License” turned into an unexpected blockbuster hit.
Reports state that Carpenter started dating Bassett soon after splitting up with Rodrigo in 2020. In August 2020, Carpenter and Bassett were pictured together, and they even had identical Halloween costumes that year, which fueled rumours that they were dating.
Many fans assumed that Bassett, Rodrigo’s on-screen leading lady in “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” was the inspiration for “Drivers License” when Rodrigo released it in early 2021.
Carpenter was sometimes cited as the source of her envious song about “that blond girl,” which goes, “She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about.”
Although Rodrigo has denounced this “weird and speculative” attitude to the music, other fans demonised Carpenter online.
Song Lyrics Explained
In Because I Liked A Boy, Sabrina writes about a boy she had a nice, innocent love affair with. There are several cues that the person is Joshua Bassett. She begins to sing:
Was only tryna hold you close
While your heart was failing
The sentences ought to allude to Joshua Bassett’s heart failure in 2021 (after the feud with Olivia Rodrigo started). Sabrina also addresses the allegations that have been made against her online for several months, including the death threats that she previously discussed in the song Skin.
I’m a homewrecker, I’m a s**t
I got death threats fillin’ up semi-trucks
Tell me who I am, guess I don’t have a choice
All because I liked a boy
And all of this for what?
When everything went down, we’d already broken up
It is obvious from these sentences that Sabrina is protecting herself. They are not even dating, yet she has been falsely implicated. The intention of the song is to emphasise how innocently everything began and how she had no cause to believe that being with him was inappropriate. The song’s first verses make this clear:
I said I wanted thin mints
And you said you knew a guy
You showed up with a boombox
And stars in your eyes
Who knew cuddling on trampolines
Could be so reckless?
We bonded over Black Eyed Peas
And complicated exes
Fell so deeply into it
It was all so innocent
Finally, she expresses her disappointment in how a typical circumstance devolved into a nightmare in the lines that follow:
Dating boys with exes
No, I wouldn’t recommend it
“Because I Liked A Boy” attempts to explain Sabrina Carpenter’s viewpoint on the issue that is the topic of all social media discussion by getting to the heart of the song’s lyrics.
Joshua Bassett was already single when she started seeing him, therefore she didn’t take anyone’s partner (a boy with an ex). She was falsely blamed by the entire world for being the cause of his breakup with Olivia Rodrigo.
Of course, none of the parties involved has ever explicitly said that their music is about it, nor has they officially acknowledged a connection. However, this interpretation is consistent with how everyone has interpreted their words and music over the last few years.