Rumours are swirling that Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan might have called it quits, but the newly anointed pop star has nothing but good things to say about their collaboration on her hit single, “Please Please Please”. Carpenter released her sixth album, Short’n’Sweet, today (23 August), following the runaway success of songs such as “Espresso” and “Feather”. For “Please Please Please”, she enlisted her then-boyfriend, Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan, with the Irish star playing a bad boy Carpenter tries to help reform (to no avail).
In a new interview with The Guardian , Carpenter, 25, said working with Keoghan was “one of the best experiences I’ve ever had”. “I’m very honoured and I got to work with such a great actor,” she said, apparently repeating the comment to mock her own ommission of any relationship details. In the same chat, Carpenter admitted that she had accepted that scrutiny over her personal life comes with the territory of being an international star.
“It’s not what I signed up for, but I can’t really hep when I was born,” she said, referring to her generation’s fixation with social media. I want to be honest, I just want to write about what’s happening in my life as a 25-year-old girl. But it comes with the territory and I just have to be like.
.. OK!” Carpenter’s Island Records labelmate and fellow breakout star, Chappell Roan, has been dealing with similar issues surrounding what she deems to be intrusion .