Eyes Wide Open (Sabrina Carpenter album)
Debut folk-pop and teen pop album by Sabrina Carpenter.
Eyes Wide Open is the debut studio album by American singer Sabrina Carpenter, released by Hollywood Records on April 14, 2015. The album includes all four tracks from Carpenter's earlier EP Can't Blame a Girl for Trying and was recorded primarily in 2014. It debuted at number 43 on the US Billboard 200 and sold over 12,000 copies in its first week.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Sabrina Carpenter
- Released
- 14 April 2015
- Recorded
- 2013–2015
- Genre
- Folk-pop; teen pop
- Label
- Hollywood
Facts from the source article.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eyes Wide Open | Jerrod Bettis, Audra Mae, Meghan Kabir | 3:12 |
| 2 | Can't Blame a Girl for Trying | Meghan Trainor, Al Anderson, Chris Gelbuda | 2:49 |
| 3 | The Middle of Starting Over | Jim McGorman, Robb Vallier, Michelle Moyer | 3:32 |
| 4 | We'll Be the Stars | Skyler Stonestreet, Cameron Walker, Steven Solomon | 3:06 |
| 5 | Two Young Hearts | Ben Berger, Mae, Ryan McMahon | 3:53 |
| 6 | Your Love's Like | Matthew Tishler, Philip Bentley, Lindsey Lee, Sabrina Carpenter | 3:29 |
| 7 | Too Young | Carpenter, Jon Ingoldsby | 4:14 |
| 8 | Seamless | Carpenter, Jon Levine, Chelsea Lena | 3:06 |
| 9 | Right Now | Carpenter, Jordan Higgins, Lindsay Rush | 3:35 |
| 10 | Darling I'm a Mess | Trainor, Lily Harrington | 2:59 |
| 11 | White Flag | Cara Salimando, Scott Harris, Matt Squire | 3:18 |
| 12 | Best Thing I Got | John Gordon, Julie Frost | 3:19 |
| Total length | 40:32 | ||
Track listing from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The album's lead single, "We'll Be the Stars", was released on January 13, 2015, and premiered on Radio Disney a day earlier.
- The title track "Eyes Wide Open" won the Radio Disney Music Award for Best Anthem in 2016.
Music and lyrics
The album's twelve tracks include four from Carpenter's debut EP. Musically, Eyes Wide Open is a folk-pop and teen pop record with acoustic and country styles, also incorporating pop rock, power pop, and Hawaiian folk influences. Carpenter wrote four of the songs. The title track, “Eyes Wide Open,” has a darker mood and addresses self-discovery; Carpenter has said her favorite lyric on the album is its opening line. “Can't Blame a Girl for Trying” is an acoustic guitar-pop folk song about being foolish in love and making mistakes. “The Middle of Starting Over” features country pop influences and deals with moving on and starting fresh; it has been compared to Taylor Swift's early work. “Darling I'm a Mess,” the first song recorded for the album, is a Hawaiian folk song co-written by Meghan Trainor about being friend-zoned. “White Flag” is a folk-pop guitar-driven ballad about change and impermanence. The closing track, “Best Thing I Got,” is a piano-driven pop song with jazz influences about love and freedom.
Critical reception
Brian Cantor of Headline Planet gave a positive review, noting that the album's loose structure and personality allow Carpenter to establish her own identity. He felt that more heavily produced songs, particularly “Eyes Wide Open” and “We'll Be the Stars,” worked against her strengths. Taylor Weatherby of Billboard praised “We'll Be the Stars” as one of Carpenter's best songs, highlighting its vulnerable side.
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