Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter & Saweetie
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter & Jonas Blue
“Pushing 20” is the first single of Singular: Act II, the second act of a two-part album by Sabrina Carpenter, with the first act being released in November 2018.
Played at the first show of the Singular Tour in Orlando in 2019, and released shortly after on March 8th, the song is about how Carpent...
[Verse 1]
What, what, what, whatcha say, Mr. Clean?
I'm flagging you down for a misdemeanor
It must look different from your mezzanine
You got me, got me feeling out of touch, Hall & Oates
Push it out, wish me luck
[Pre-Chorus]
You got a way, you're messing with my faith
You're tryna paint a picture but you're running out of paint
You had your say 'til I took it away
Out of yours in my controlla
[Chorus]
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing, pushing)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing, pushing)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think
[Verse 2]
I'm pushing 20, I ain't talking 'bout a Bimmer
And while you're wasting time, the money's in the meter
So I can start from scratch, make you a believer
Or I can just, da da da
Act like I don't give a, uh
[Pre-Chorus]
You got a way, you're messing with my faith
You're tryna paint a picture but you're running out of paint
You had your say 'til I took it away
Out of yours in my controlla
[Chorus]
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing, pushing)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (Pushing, pushing, pushing)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think
[Bridge]
I got no time, I got no time
No, no, no, no rewind
No, no rewind, yeah
I got no time, I got no time (I got no time, no)
No, no, no, no rewind (No, no, no, no, no rewind, no)
No, no rewind
[Chorus]
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (I'm pushing 20, babe)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (I'm pushing 20, babe)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think (Tell me what to be)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (I'm pushing, pushing, babe)
I'm pushing 20, got no time for others (You know it, know it, babe)
Who ain't on the same wave, yeah, on the same page
Tryna tell me what to be, yeah, tell me what to think
[Outro]
I got no time, I got no time
No, no, no, no rewind
No, no rewind, yeah (I got no)
I got no time, I got no time (I got no time, no)
No, no, no, no rewind (No, no, no, no rewind, no)
No, no rewind
Pushing 20 was written by Paul Shelton & OAK & Sabrina Carpenter.
Pushing 20 was produced by OAK.
Sabrina Carpenter released Pushing 20 on Fri Mar 08 2019.
Sabrina first played “Pushing 20” on March 2, 2019, at the first show of the Singular Tour in Orlando, Florida. She introduced the song with a personal story:
I wrote this song ‘cause I was at a time in my life, by the way, like, six weeks ago? Like, not even that crazy long ago. But it was at a ti...
The cake in the cover is a reference to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, when Hagrid gives Harry a birthday cake. Sabrina’s name being spelled wrong as “Sabreena Carpunder” is also a reference to the movie, since Harry’s cake is spelled wrong as well.
In a Zach Sang Show sit-down interview with Zach Sang and Dan Zolot, Sabrina dives deep in the upbringing of “Pushing 20”:
This one came from my producer who one day said to me something like, “Damn, you pushing 20 now?” We hadn’t seen each other in a second and he was like, “How old are you now?” I was like, “I’m about to be 20.” That’s how that song started but then it went into like, all these expectations that come...