Sabrina Carpenter’s “Girl Meets World” co-star Danielle Fishel just admitted that she advised the singer against releasing one of her hit songs

On December 15, 2024By Littum

Last month, Danielle Fishel fought back tears as she shared her pride for Sabrina is a carpenter after attend her sold out Short n’ Sweet trip in Los Angeles.

Sabrina Carpenter is wearing a black sequin dress and Danielle Fishel is wearing a tropical print dress. Both smile for the camera — For context, Danielle and Sabrina first met when Sabrina was just 14 years old and landed a breakout role on the Disney Channel show *Girl meets the world*.

This was a sequel series to the sitcom *Boy Meets World*which catapulted Danielle to fame in the 90s.

Danielle reprized her role as Topanga for *GMW*and while Rowan Blanchard played the titular “girl”, Riley Matthews, Sabrina was cast as her wisecracking best friend Maya Hart.

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Girl meets the world ran from 2014 to 2017, and during that time Sabrina and Danielle became incredibly close.

Danielle Fishel hugs Sabrina Carpenter on a baseball field — Danielle is 18 years older than Sabrina, and she called her costar “the closest thing I’ll ever get to a daughter” in a sweet Instagram post back in 2022.

In fact, Sabrina was one of Danielle’s bridesmaids at her wedding in 2018 to Jensen Karpand when she was pregnant with her and Jensen’s first son, Adler, in 2019, Danielle revealed that Sabrina would be known as her children’s “aunt.”

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Through it all, Danielle has been Sabrina’s biggest cheerleader when it comes to her music career, which didn’t really explode into the mainstream until this year thanks to her hit songs like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.”

Sabrina Carpenter in a strapless metallic dress on a red carpet, with long wavy hair styled elegantly — Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

And she repeated that in a new article Weekly entertainment after the outlet named Sabrina one of their 2024 Entertainers of the Year.

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Danielle kicked off the piece, saying she is often asked if she can “believe” Sabrina’s “meteoric rise” in recent months, with the mother-of-two adding: “My honest answer will always be, ‘Yes’.”

Sabrina Carpenter with long hair lies on a stage, holding a glittering microphone, wearing a sparkly dress and silver heels, posing in front of a modern fireplace — After reflecting on Sabrina’s impressive work ethic and talent, Danielle then shared a confession that underscores how well the singer understands her craft.

Discussing the star’s fifth album, *Emails I can’t send*Danielle said she advised her friend against including one of the songs – but Sabrina completely ignored this advice.

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“Her instinct can’t be beat,” Danielle wrote. “I told her once that I didn’t think a song should be on her 2022 album, Emails I can’t send. I thought it wasn’t relatable enough and she politely told me I was wrong.”

“Last November, when I heard 20,000 fans in the Crypto.com arena singing every word to that very song along with her, I knew she was right. She’s always right,” Danielle continued to admit.

The star did not mention which of Sabrina’s songs she had urged her not to release, with eight songs from Emails I can’t send being included on her Short n’ Sweet tour set list.

In case you’re wondering, they are “Tornado Warnings”, “Decode”, “Fast Times”, “Read Your Mind”, “Because I Liked A Boy”, “Nonsense”, “Opposite” and “Feather” – with the last two only included in the deluxe edition of the album.

All of these songs are huge fan favorites, with “Because I Liked A Boy”, “Feather” and “Nonsense” being particularly popular in both Sabrina’s fandom and the mainstream.

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Interestingly, Sabrina previously revealed that she almost didn’t include “Nonsense” on this album — suggesting that she feared it wouldn’t “resonate with people.”

Sabrina Carpenter in sparkly lace corset top and long gloves, touches her lip and smiles — For reference, “Nonsense” ended. be the breakout song which arguably paved the way for Sabrina’s sudden ascension this year.

speaks to Interview magazine in February, she said: “Sometimes I get insecure about pop music and the fact that it doesn’t always resonate with people. So it was really special for me to experience (Nonsens) having a life of its own, maybe because it felt like the closest thing to my true personality, as silly as that sounds.”

“I was at a really, really low point in my life about two years ago, so I wrote very few upbeat love songs,” Sabrina added. “(Nonsense) always stuck out, but I felt it might discredit some of the songs on the album that were about more sensitive subjects, so it almost didn’t make it.”

“People in the past had told me that my music didn’t have symmetry, that I didn’t have all the songs sounding the same, and that got into my head,” she concluded. “So I’m grateful because the fans decided on their own that it meant something to them.”

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And Sabrina had a similar experience with her smash hit “Espresso,” which many consider to be the anthem of 2024.

Sabrina Carpenter performs energetically on stage, wearing a stylish bright jacket and holding a sparkling microphone — speaks to Black earlier this year, she said she was “all alone in wanting to release ‘Espresso,'” adding, “Not so much from my immediate team, but when it came to the ‘powers above’.”

“There were a lot of questions about whether it made sense,” she explained. “They trusted me in the end and I was glad I believed in myself at that moment.”

And Island Records co-CEO Imran Majid echoed Danielle’s sentiment at the time of this interview, telling Variety: “Sabrina’s instincts and creative vision are incredible. She’s always thinking 10 steps ahead of the market.”

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What song do you think Danielle discouraged Sabrina from putting on her album? Tell me in the comments!