Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter’s Friendship Timeline

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter's friendship has come a great distance over time.

Earlier than the pair turned the besties they're in the present day, Carpenter was a longtime fan of Swift. Previous to dropping tracks like “Nonsense” and “Espresso,” Carpenter posted covers of Swift's songs on her YouTube web page, together with “Image to Burn” and “White Horse.”

Along with overlaying Swift's music, Carpenter additionally attended a number of of Swift's concert events. The previous Disney star lastly acquired the possibility to attach with the Grammy winner backstage at one in all her Repute exhibits.

“She had her cats together with her,” Carpenter recalled of assembly Swift for the primary time in a January 2024 interview with Who What Wear. “I've older sisters, so if something, it felt like that kind of a relationship.”

After that preliminary assembly, the duo grew shut as Carpenter started to make a reputation for herself within the music business. After attending the Eras Tour herself in 2023, Carpenter was introduced as one in all Swift's openers for her worldwide leg.

Hold scrolling to see Swift and Carpenter's friendship over time:

2017

After attending a number of of Swift's exhibits over time, Carpenter lastly acquired to fulfill Swift.

November 2021

4 years later, Swift despatched Carpenter a Purple (Taylor's Model) package deal forward of the album's launch.

“Thanks blondie,” Carpenter wrote through her Instagram Story on the time. “Being 22 is hitting very completely different proper now.”

August 2022

The singers posed collectively for a photograph on the 2022 VMA after-party.

November 2022

Three months later, Swift and Carpenter each attended the American Music Awards.

February 2023

Swift and Carpenter frolicked on the 2023 Grammys afterparty.

Might 2023

Carpenter was noticed within the VIP tent for Swift's Eras Tour present in Philadelphia.

June 2023

Swift introduced that Carpenter could be becoming a member of her for the South American leg of the Eras Tour.

“Actually thrilled to inform you this!! Mexico, Argentina and Brazil: We're bringing The Eras Tour to you this 12 months!” Swift wrote through X on the time. Candy angel princess @SabrinaAnnLynn can be becoming a member of us on all the exhibits!”

After the information broke, Carpenter opened up about how significant the chance was provided that she was a lifelong fan of Swift.

“Making an attempt to course of this however alas I shant. CANT WAIT TO JOIN THE ERAS TOUR IN LATIN AMERICA,” she penned. “Thank u @taylorswift13 u the 1 :') that is the dreamiest dream come true.”

September 2023

Carpenter and Swift posed collectively whereas attending the 2023 VMAs.

October 2023

The “Pores and skin” singer tagged alongside in Swift's group outing to cheer on Travis Kelce because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs confronted off in opposition to the New York Jets.

December 2023

Carpenter was noticed at Swift's thirty fourth party in New York Metropolis.

February 2024

After the Latin America exhibits, Carpenter additionally joined Swift on the Australian leg of the Eras Tour. Whereas on the town, Swift and Carpenter frolicked on the Australia Zoo.

On the first present in Sydney, Swift introduced Carpenter, who needed to cancel her set because of climate, out to carry out a duet through the acoustic set. They sang a mashup of “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”

March 2024

After Carpenter wrapped up her leg of the Eras Tour, she penned a considerate message for Swift to specific her gratitude for the chance.

“And essentially the most thank-you's I've ever thank-you'd to Taylor,” she gushed. “I really feel so fortunate to witness the magic that's you and this tour. There may be actually nobody such as you and there by no means can be! I like you with all my coronary heart and I'll cherish this Taybrina period (and all of the eras) until the top of time 💞💞💞”

June 2024

After Carpenter raised eyebrows together with her SKIMS — which is owned by Kim Kardashian — marketing campaign, the “Feather” singer shared that she talked to Swift about it given her tumultuous historical past with the Kardashians star.

“As a lot as individuals wish to consider you're tuned into each little factor, I'm not as a result of I'm continually working,” she stated to Rolling Stone. “In that situation, I've been very, very communicative together with her about that scenario, and I simply love her a lot and help her until the top. So it was no weirdness for me, however I do know individuals will simply say issues as a result of that's all they've time to do.”

July 2024

As Carpenter continued to dominate the Billboard charts with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.” Swift congratulated her pal on all her success.

“Summer time of Sabrina and will it proceed ceaselessly 😇,” Swift declared whereas replying to Carpenter's Instagram submit.

August 2024

Carpenter gushed about her shut connection to Swift and the way she admires her work ethic.

“Nicely, Taylor is a rock star! She's simply such a gangster with all of it. It doesn't matter what persons are saying, the whole lot that I've ever seen her sort out, she's performed so with grace,” Carpenter stated in an interview with Variety. “The posts about me having to ‘ask for her permission' — no. She's one in all my greatest, greatest buddies, and we seize dinner or textual content and catch up such as you would along with your greatest pal.”

The “Espresso” singer added she is aware of she will be able to depend on Swift for steering within the business.

“It's so cool for me to get a perspective on this entire course of from her and the neighborhood of artists that I really feel I'm near — to get recommendation from them on stuff which you can't simply ask the web,” she continued. “We're at all times enjoying one another our [music], and every time I begin to suppose, ‘Perhaps I'll get on Twitter and say one thing about this,' I'm at all times like, ‘Perhaps I'll write a music as an alternative.'”

That very same month, Swift congratulated Carpenter on the discharge of her newest album, Brief n' Candy. “Brief ✔️Candy✔️Has made a rare album✔️,” Swift captioned a pic of herself and Carpenter through her Instagram Story. Sharing a hyperlink to stream Carpenter's album, she wrote, “GO SUPPORT OUR GIRL!!”

February 2025

Swift cozied as much as Carpenter shortly after the “Espresso” singer gained her first Grammy Award for Greatest Pop Vocal Album.

August 2025

Swift introduced her twelfth album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, throughout an look on boyfriend Travis Kelce's “New Heights” podcast. Through the episode, Swift shared that the title observe, which is listed final on the report, options Carpenter.

“The Lifetime of a Showgirl [is out] October 3,” Carpenter later wrote through her Instagram Story. “I do know somebody who's freaking out, and it's me.”

Throughout a CBS Mornings interview about her personal new album, Man's Greatest Pal, Carpenter stated she couldn't share any data about what her collab with Swift can be like. “I've to let her give all of it away. It's her child, and I'm simply so thrilled and honored,” Carpenter instructed Gayle King. “I imply, I've been trying as much as her since — I bear in mind the primary time I heard a music by her. I used to be 8 years previous on the varsity bus, and … my life was modified.”

The “Manchild” singer went on to supply her congratulations to Swift, who'd just lately introduced her engagement to Kelce. “I'm so joyful for them,” she stated, noting that she wasn't in any respect shocked by the worldwide response to the information.