Sabrina Carpenter honored by Danielle Fishel as one among EW’s 2024 Entertainers of the 12 months

Danielle Fishel all the time knew Sabrina Carpenter was destined for greatness. The Boy Meets World star shared the display screen with the “Style” and “Espresso” singer for 3 seasons on Disney Channel’s Lady Meets World within the mid-2010s. On the present, Fishel and Carpenter each supported Rowan Blanchard’s protagonist Riley as her mom and good pal, respectively, for 72 episodes. On the time, Carpenter’s budding music profession was already in movement — the younger singer had two studio albums beneath her belt and launched into a world tour by the point the present wrapped in 2017. Now, she’s a six-time Grammy nominee for her album Quick n’ Candy and is on her tour of the identical title.

Right here, Fishel — who has remained booked and busy this 12 months herself, co-hosting the Pod Meets World rewatch podcast along with her costars Rider Robust and Will Friedle and directing quite a few episodes of exhibits together with Lopez vs. Lopez and Wizards Past Waverly Place — pays tribute to her former costar wrapping up her largest 12 months on file, together with a headline-making Coachella set — and explains why Carpenter’s stardom was evident from the very starting. Is not that candy?

Fingers down the query I’ve been requested probably the most in 2024 has been, “Are you able to imagine how a lot Sabrina Carpenter has blown up?” It is requested with wide-eyed pleasure, realizing this 12 months she banked her first No. 1 single with “Please Please Please” and her first No. 1 album with Quick n’ Candy. She opened for Taylor Swift on the historic Eras Tour 25 occasions, touring the world and taking part in stadiums, solely to arrange her personal sold-out enviornment tour. She carried out at Coachella, launched a Netflix Christmas particular, and was the musical visitor on Saturday Evening Reside. Her breakout music, “Espresso,” was Spotify’s most streamed music of 2024 (with 1.6 billion world streams!), and he or she’s nominated for six Grammys, together with Album of the 12 months, Track of the 12 months, and Document of the 12 months. So, I don’t blame folks once they ask if I can imagine her meteoric rise — however my sincere reply will all the time be, “Sure.”

Sabrina has been this uber-talented, extremely targeted, deeply inventive, and particularly detail-oriented since I first met her greater than 10 years in the past, when she was simply 14 years outdated. She works more durable than anybody may presumably think about. Not solely a prolific songwriter, she is concerned in each single side of her profession. From technique to mixing, styling, enhancing, and shade correcting her legendary music movies, hand deciding on her fragrance scents like some type of attractive scientist, you title it, she has enter on it. And her instincts can’t be beat. I as soon as instructed her I did not assume a music ought to make it on her 2022 album, “Emails I Cannot Ship.” I believed it wasn’t relatable sufficient, and he or she politely instructed me I used to be incorrect. This previous November, as I heard 20,000 followers within the Crypto.com enviornment sing each phrase to that precise music proper alongside along with her, I knew she was proper. She’s all the time proper. 

Sabrina has ready for this second her whole life and nothing was going to cease her. Folks have tried, and I really feel dangerous for them. She’s a 5-foot power of nature. A petite celebrity with a large voice. A bit icon with the most important coronary heart.

The true human being behind the facade of America’s sweetheart baddie is my most variety, real, hilarious, loving pal. 

I couldn’t be extra happy with Sabrina Carpenter, however to say I’m shocked — that may be a lie. So now you may ask me, “Can Sabrina get any greater?” And to that, my sincere reply is and can all the time be, “Sure.” By some means, I believe she’s simply getting began. 

EW’s 2024 Entertainers of the 12 months