Sabrina Carpenter Thanked Her 'Cats and Dogs At Home Watching' During MTV VMAs Speech
Sabrina Carpenter won her very first MTV VMA award tonight, taking home Song of the Year for “Espresso.” She used her speech to get cheeky, thanking her fans as well as her “cats and dogs watching at home.”
Read her full speech below:
“I’ve literally never won one of these. This is really special. The first people I want to thank are the fans. If you clap after everything I say, they’re gonna call me off the stage, so one second. But I just want to say that you guys are the reason that I get to do what I love, but also the reason that we get to have so much fun and share music with each other. And I just feel so grateful to have the best, truly, the best fans in the world. I know it sounds cheesy, but I love you.
Thank you to my managers. Thank you to my family, my cats and dogs that are at home watching, and thank you to the people that made “Espress” with me...I love you guys so much. I love making music with you, and I can’t wait to share more with the world. And thank you to that me espresso.”
Carpenter entered the night with seven nominations, including in three major categories: Artist of the Year, Song of the Year (“Espresso”), Song of the Summer (“Please Please Please”), and Best Pop Artist. Her video for “Please Please Please” was up for Best Direction and Best Art Direction, and “Espresso” nabbed a Best Editing nod.
Carpenter, 25, started posting videos of herself singing on YouTube when she was just 9. But she made her real music debut seven years later. “When I was 16, I put out my first project,” she told W magazine. “Ever since, music has been my whole life.”
She revealed that she wrote “Espresso,” the single that catapulted her career, while in France after opening for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. She had 10 days off but ended up getting inspired. “I was in a ghost town that had one little creperie down the road,” she said. “I had my shot of espresso, and then I might have had some champagne, and before I knew it the song was written. I definitely hear it now in every car I get into, and being on the radio, to me, is still—it’s like fate. You have to be at the right place at the right time.”
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