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Because I Liked a Boy
"Because I Liked a Boy" is a song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter. It was released through Island Records on July 15, 2022, as the fourth single from Carpenter's fifth studio album Emails I Can't Send (2022). The song is a dark pop ballad which speaks about the emotional turmoil Carpenter experienced on social media platforms.
She co-wrote the song with JP Saxe and Julia Michaels along with producer John Ryan. The song was "therapeutic" for Carpenter to write after being labeled as a "homewrecker", "rebound" and receiving death threats online.
On January 22, 2021, Carpenter released the standalone single "Skin". As the song was released two weeks after Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License", which drew allegations of the lyric "that blonde girl" referring to Carpenter, many journalists interpreted "Skin" as a response to Rodrigo, despite Carpenter stating otherwise. This caused Carpenter to receive an onslaught of hate and become vilified on social media. She decided to co-write "Because I Liked a Boy" for her next album as a form of therapy. Speaking to Nylon in August 2022 about the song, Carpenter stated that not everyone gets to write songs so not everyone gets to have that voice to heal through, she continued saying that people who do not have that voice are able to hear these songs and hopefully move through it "because they're listening." She later said Emails I Can't Send did that for her and gave her back that voice.
Carpenter told Rolling Stone in July 2022:
It was very therapeutic to write that song from hindsight and being like, "Wow, one thing leads to another and things can really get out of hand." Just being able to own it at the end of the day, and not let it determine who you are. My favorite lyric in the song is "Tell me who I am, because I don't have a choice." It's obviously sarcastic, but in the way that people can't tell you who you are. Only if you allow them to, like really get under your skin. [Covers her face.] But truthfully, you know who you are.
She continued stating that she simply wanted people's perceptions of her to change. "So many people have dealt with being labeled something that they're not", she continued saying that whether or not she did not or did do something about it, people would still be upset.
"Because I Liked a Boy" is a dark pop ballad with soul-barring rhythms which starts as a mellow guitar. The lyrics allude to the controversy surrounding Rodrigo's "Drivers License" and the backlash Carpenter experienced on social media. Cosmopolitan's Kayleigh Roberts explained that "the song’s lyrics are all about a pretty innocent/casual relationship that ends up causing an avalanche of judgment, name-calling, cyberbullying, and general hate."
American Songwriter said Carpenter turns from being playfully reminiscent to spiteful and upset in the chorus and uses several lyrics such as "I got death threats filling up semi-trucks" to reference the onslaught of negative messages she received on social media."
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Because I Liked a Boy
"Because I Liked a Boy" is a song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter. It was released through Island Records on July 15, 2022, as the fourth single from Carpenter's fifth studio album Emails I Can't Send (2022). The song is a dark pop ballad which speaks about the emotional turmoil Carpenter experienced on social media platforms.
She co-wrote the song with JP Saxe and Julia Michaels along with producer John Ryan. The song was "therapeutic" for Carpenter to write after being labeled as a "homewrecker", "rebound" and receiving death threats online.
On January 22, 2021, Carpenter released the standalone single "Skin". As the song was released two weeks after Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License", which drew allegations of the lyric "that blonde girl" referring to Carpenter, many journalists interpreted "Skin" as a response to Rodrigo, despite Carpenter stating otherwise. This caused Carpenter to receive an onslaught of hate and become vilified on social media. She decided to co-write "Because I Liked a Boy" for her next album as a form of therapy. Speaking to Nylon in August 2022 about the song, Carpenter stated that not everyone gets to write songs so not everyone gets to have that voice to heal through, she continued saying that people who do not have that voice are able to hear these songs and hopefully move through it "because they're listening." She later said Emails I Can't Send did that for her and gave her back that voice.
Carpenter told Rolling Stone in July 2022:
It was very therapeutic to write that song from hindsight and being like, "Wow, one thing leads to another and things can really get out of hand." Just being able to own it at the end of the day, and not let it determine who you are. My favorite lyric in the song is "Tell me who I am, because I don't have a choice." It's obviously sarcastic, but in the way that people can't tell you who you are. Only if you allow them to, like really get under your skin. [Covers her face.] But truthfully, you know who you are.
She continued stating that she simply wanted people's perceptions of her to change. "So many people have dealt with being labeled something that they're not", she continued saying that whether or not she did not or did do something about it, people would still be upset.
"Because I Liked a Boy" is a dark pop ballad with soul-barring rhythms which starts as a mellow guitar. The lyrics allude to the controversy surrounding Rodrigo's "Drivers License" and the backlash Carpenter experienced on social media. Cosmopolitan's Kayleigh Roberts explained that "the song’s lyrics are all about a pretty innocent/casual relationship that ends up causing an avalanche of judgment, name-calling, cyberbullying, and general hate."
American Songwriter said Carpenter turns from being playfully reminiscent to spiteful and upset in the chorus and uses several lyrics such as "I got death threats filling up semi-trucks" to reference the onslaught of negative messages she received on social media."