To understand how Sabrina Carpenter got so big, you have to understand her controversies.
In the summer of 1982, a rocker from Indiana was finally breaking on the charts after years of trying anything for a hit. Born John Mellencamp, he marketed himself, reluctantly, under his manager’s preferred sobriquet, John Cougar. After about three years of,” was undeniable: both a heartland rocker and a danceable bop at the same time. With its center-of-the-bullseye melody and cheeky S&M-adjacent lyrics, “Hurts So Good” had the makings of a Song of the Summer.
And then … the oddest thing: While “Hurts” was still in the Top 10, a second John Cougar hit came roaring in beside it, then soared above it: a little ditty called “.” This was a quirkier tune, with pensive lyrics about the passage of time and a synthesized clap that recurred like a sample; it sounded like country music crossed with New Wave synthpop. At the beginning of the summer, “Jack and Diane” would have seemed an odd choice for a big hit .
In short, Carpenter built her profile brick by brick—for all its social-age Zoomer vibes, the explosion in her popularity this year is really an old-fashioned career development story of the bygone Hollywood variety, a tribute to never-say-die persistence. Carpenter kept refining her persona until the stars aligned and the world caught up.
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