Sabrina Carpenter’s Fans ‘Harassed’ Her Into Releasing a New Version of ‘Nonsense’

Sabrina Carpenter has released a few iconic songs and one of them is “Nonsense.” During an interview, she revealed her fans harassed her into creating a new version of it. Carpenter explained what she was thinking when she rewrote the tune.

Sabrina Carpenter turned 1 of her hits into a Christmas song

Pop songs and Christmas songs tend to be very different. However, there are examples of pop artists releasing Christmas versions of their hits. For example, there are Yuletide versions of “Macarena” and “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.” Carpenter added that she decided to give “Nonsense” a Christmas spin with the track “A Nonsense Christmas.”

During a 2023 interview with Grammy.com, the “Espresso” singer explained why it felt right for her to rerecord “Nonsense” as a holiday tune. “I got so lucky with the lives ‘Nonsense’ has taken on, because I don’t think I could have done that with just any song of mine,” she said. “The holidays fit so perfectly with what the song is about.”

The “Espresso” star revealed that she didn’t intend to make “A Nonsense Christmas” into a full song. “At first I thought it’d be fun to make a short form version of it, so I made a music video at home with my sister and a friend in my house and put on a Santa outfit,” she said. “It was well-received by my fans who I love very much, and when they want something they harass me. So they harassed me to write a full version, and that’s how that happened.”

The song was supposed to be part of a naughty Christmas album

Of course, this all fit into Carpenter’s dream of making a certain type of record. “It’s been a dream of mine for a long time to make a Christmas EP. At first, the dream was to make a naughty EP and have all the songs be sexual and focus on a more risqué side of Christmas,” she said. “Growing up, I always listened to naughty ones like ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’ and ‘Santa Baby.'” 

However, the final product is not as risque as it could have been. Carpenter said that as she started writing the record, she had other ideas. The finished product was a combination of old and new styles. Considering that Christmas is a nostalgic time for many, any good Christmas album should have some old-fashioned music and Phil Spector-style production. However, too much of a good thing can grow tiresome, so it’s good that Carpenter sought to blend the retro and the modern for her Yuletide record.

How the versions of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Nonsense’ performed

“Nonsense” was a minor hit. It reached No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, staying on the chart for 19 weeks. The track appeared on the album Emails I Can’t Send. That record peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 36 weeks, making it the singer’s biggest album in the U.S. by far.

“A Nonsense Christmas” did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune appeared on Carpenter’s EP Fruitcake. That EP reached No. 121 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for two weeks.

It took some effort, but Carpenter’s fans got to hear a full version of “A Nonsense Christmas.”