Earlier this year, Sabrina Carpenter teamed up with SKIMS for a sultry campaign that had many fans – including the singer's boyfriend Barry Keoghan – running for it. Others, however, weren't so happy with her choice to work with a brand founded by Kim Kardashian, given the reality star's famous feud with Taylor Swift.
But in a new interview with Rolling rock Released on Monday (June 17), Carpenter gave assurances that the superstar — who she became close with while opening for Swift's Eras tour in the spring — was completely fine with the deal. “As much as people want to think you're in tune with every little thing, I'm not because I'm constantly working,” the “Espresso” singer said.
“In this scenario, I've been very, very communicative with her about this situation, and I just love her so much and support her to the end,” she continued. “So it wasn't weird to me, but I know people will just say things because that's all they have time to do.”
Carpenter also made sure to sing Swift's praises in the interview. “I could never compare my life, my career, my trajectory to anything close to what he's done,” Carpenter noted.
“He's always putting out music at a time when I didn't realize I needed those songs,” he added. Department of Tormented Poets. “We are very, very vocal with each other about our mutual love and admiration. … He played me 'But Daddy I Love Him' before it came out, and that's one of my favorites, too.”
While Swift appears to have given her blessing to Carpenter's SKIMS campaign, the “Anti-Hero” singer has been very clear about where she personally stands with Kardashian. In December YEAR Person of the Year in the interview, he even called out the clothing mogul by name, noting that 2016's “Famous” debacle with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) “took me psychologically to a place I've never been before.”
“You have a completely fabricated frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, that Kim Kardashian edited and then released to tell everyone I was a liar,” he added at the time.
In April, Swift also appeared to call out Kardashian again by capitalizing the letters K, I and M in her caption Department of Tormented Poets track “thanks aIMee.” In the song, the 14-time Grammy winner compares her subject to a high school bully and sings, “I can't forgive the way you made me feel… But I can't forget the way you made me heal.”
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