Emails I Can't Send is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Sabrina Carpenter, released on July 15, 2022 by Island Records. It is Carpenter's first studio album with the label. The album spawned five singles – "Skinny Dipping", "Fast Times", "Vicious, "Because I Liked a Boy" and "Nonsense". Carpenter embarked on the Emails I Can't Send Tour in September 2022, in support of the album.[1]
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Released | July 15, 2022 | |||
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Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 39:22 | |||
Label | Island | |||
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"A lot of it came from the humor side of things. I would be reading it and being like, 'Oh my god, that's so terrible, how did I say that?' [...] Then it would turn into a song. Most of the songs that happened were me going like, 'Oh my god that's terrible I can't say that,' and then I say it, but for three minutes."
—Carpenter, during an interview with Teen Vogue, about the emails she wrote for herself[2]
By June 2019, while promoting her fourth studio album Singular: Act II, Marie Claire magazine reported that Carpenter had begun work on a fifth studio album.[3] In 2020, she released "Honeymoon Fades" and songs intended to support her acting career such as "Let Me Move You" for Work It and the Clouds soundtrack.[4][5][6] In January 2021, Carpenter was signed to Island Records, after four albums with Hollywood Records and released "Skin". The track debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first entry on the chart.[7][8]
Carpenter reported to Teen Vogue in September 2021 that many of the album's songs were written from emails she wrote to herself, such as the song she shared on August 7 with the description "intro", later revealed as the title track of the album.[2] She also revealed that she finished the album's recording in New York with Julia Michaels, JP Saxe, John Ryan and Leroy Clampitt, after she moved to Manhattan's Financial District, in June 2021.[2][9] Carpenter confirmed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the album would be dropped sometime in 2022 and that the title was hidden in work released the year before.[9] The album's name clue was in the music video for "Skinny Dipping", in a shot where the name appears in a Scrabble game.[10]
"Skinny Dipping" was released as the album's lead single on September 9, 2021.[11] "Fast Times" was released as the album's second single on February 18, 2022.[12] "Vicious" was released as the third single on July 1, 2022, along with the album's pre-order.[13] "Because I Liked a Boy" was released as the fourth single on July 15, 2022, along with the album and its music video.[14]
In support of Emails I Can't Send, Carpenter embarked on her fourth concert tour. Covering fourteen dates throughout one leg in North America, it began on September 29, 2022 in Atlanta and concluded on October 20, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.
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Liam Hess of Vogue stated that the album is "the most fully realized vision of Carpenter the musician—and the most rounded portrait of Carpenter the human being—yet."[16]
Emails I Can't Send debuted at number 23 on the US Billboard 200, with 18,000 album-equivalent units earned, which consisted 7,000 pure album copies,[17] making it Carpenter's highest entry on the chart,[18] as well as number 55 on the Canadian Albums Chart, her second and highest entry on that chart.[19] The album debuted at number 76 on the UK Albums Chart, making it Carpenter's first entry on the chart.[20]
In Australia, the album debuted at number 44 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It tied Evolution as Carpenter's highest-charting album in the country.[21] In New Zealand, Emails I Can't Send debuted at number 27 on the chart, Carpenter's first entry on the chart.[22]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Emails I Can't Send" | Clampitt | 1:44 | |
2. | "Vicious" |
| Evigan[a] | 2:30 |
3. | "Read Your Mind" |
| Clampitt | 3:28 |
4. | "Tornado Warnings" |
| Odegard | 3:24 |
5. | "Because I Liked a Boy" |
| Ryan | 3:16 |
6. | "Already Over" |
| Ryan | 2:51 |
7. | "How Many Things" |
| Marrone | 4:04 |
8. | "Bet U Wanna" |
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| 3:11 |
9. | "Nonsense" |
| Bunetta | 2:44 |
10. | "Fast Times" |
| Ryan | 2:55 |
11. | "Skinny Dipping" |
| Clampitt | 2:58 |
12. | "Bad for Business" |
| Clampitt | 3:08 |
13. | "Decode" |
| Ryan | 3:08 |
Total length: | 39:22 |
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Credits adapted from the liner notes of Emails I Can't Send.[23]
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Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[21] | 44 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[24] | 136 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[19] | 55 |
Irish Albums (IRMA)[25] | 57 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[22] | 27 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[26] | 83 |
UK Albums (OCC)[27] | 76 |
US Billboard 200[18] | 23 |
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