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Released | April 14, 2015 | |||
Recorded | 2013–2015 | |||
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Length | 40:32 | |||
Label | Hollywood | |||
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Eyes Wide Open is the debut studio album by American singer Sabrina Carpenter. It was released by Hollywood Records on April 14, 2015. Carpenter began planning the project in 2014, after she launched her debut EP Can't Blame a Girl for Trying , as she wanted to make a full-length LP. All the tracks on that EP were included on the album. The album was recorded from 2013–2015 with the majority of the album being recorded in 2014. Musically, Eyes Wide Open is a pop record with folk, pop rock and teen pop influences. Its production consists of guitars, piano, drums and keyboards. Thematically, the album focuses on Carpenter's personal experiences, friendship, love and teenage problems.
The album received positive reviews from music critics and debuted at number 43 on the US Billboard 200, number 31 on the US Billboard Top Album Sales chart, and number 14 on the US Billboard Digital Albums chart. The album sold over 12,000 copies in its first week of release. Eyes Wide Open produced two singles, "We'll Be the Stars", released on January 13, 2015, and the title-track "Eyes Wide Open", released on April 7, 2015.
Carpenter became heavily involved with the Disney Channel in 2013, making various appearances on soundtracks like "Smile" for the album Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust and "All You Need", featured on the Sofia the First soundtrack. [1] [2] In that same year, Carpenter signed a record deal with Hollywood Records to release her own music. Carpenter was planning to launch an EP and then release a studio album. She released her debut EP Can't Blame a Girl for Trying with four tracks in March 2014. [3]
The final cut of Eyes Wide Open contains twelve tracks, four of them were in Carpenter’s debut EP Can't Blame a Girl for Trying . The album is a teen pop and pop folk record, full of acoustic and country styles. [4] It embodies influences of pop rock, power pop and Hawaiian folk. In all of the songs Carpenter talks about personal experiences, friendship, love and teenage problems. Four songs were written by Carpenter.
Eyes Wide Open begins with the title track “Eyes Wide Open”. The song demonstrates a "darker mood" where Carpenter sings about finding who she is and her path. [5] Her favorite lyric on the album is the opening lyric of “Eyes Wide Open” that says "Everybody loves to tell me / I was born an old soul." [6] "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" is an acoustic guitar-pop folk song who talks the being foolish in love and making mistakes, but never blaming those who make them. According to Carpenter the song "perfectly describes a thirteen-year-old girl and a teenage girl." [6] The third track, "The Middle of Starting Over" has country pop influences. The song talks about moving on, start all over again and forget the mistakes. "The Middle of Starting Over" was compared to Taylor Swift's work in her early albums. [4]
The last song of Carpenter's new material, "Darling I'm a Mess", was the first song to be recorded for Eyes Wide Open. [7] The Hawaiian folk song was co-written by Meghan Trainor and lyrically, it talks about the feeling of being friend-zoned. [8] A folk-pop guitar-driven ballad, "White Flag" talks about changes in our daily life and that none of the bad things we do will last forever. The song has the last to be recorded for Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying. The last track of the record, "Best Thing I Got" is a piano driven-pop song with jazz influences. Lyrically, the song talks about love and "being a non-perfect girl who wants life to be full of freedom.” [9]
The album's lead single, "We'll Be the Stars", was released on January 13, 2015. [10] It made its radio premiere via Radio Disney a day earlier. [11]
Carpenter made the lead track off of the album, "Eyes Wide Open", available for those who pre-ordered the album on iTunes on April 7, 2015. [12] It was released as the album's second single, with the music video premiering on June 14, 2015. In 2016, the song won the Radio Disney Music Award for "Best Anthem". [13]
Writing for the website Headline Planet, Brian Cantor gave the album a positive review, focusing on the emotion conveyed by Sabrina Carpenter's performance. He wrote, "Decidedly loose in construct but rich in personality, Eyes Wide Open provides Carpenter with an opportunity to establish her own identity and leave her own mark." Cantor believed the more heavily produced songs put Carpenter at a disadvantage, playing against her strengths. In particular, he singled out "Eyes Wide Open" and "We'll Be the Stars" as weaker songs on the album that do not showcase Carpenter's talents and personality to their full potential. "With every passing moment–even on her weaker tracks–" Cantor wrote, "Carpenter creates distance between the conception and reality of a teen artist." [14]
The album debuted at number 43 on the US Billboard 200, number 31 on the US Billboard Top Album Sales chart, and number 14 on the US Billboard Digital Albums chart. According to Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan, the album sold over 12,000 copies in its first week release. [15]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Eyes Wide Open" |
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| 3:12 |
2. | "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" |
| Brian Malouf | 2:49 |
3. | "The Middle of Starting Over" |
| 3:32 | |
4. | "We'll Be the Stars" |
| Solomon | 3:06 |
5. | "Two Young Hearts" | Captain Cuts | 3:53 | |
6. | "Your Love's Like" |
| Tishler | 3:29 |
7. | "Too Young" |
| Ingoldsby | 4:14 |
8. | "Seamless" |
| Levine | 3:06 |
9. | "Right Now" |
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| 3:35 |
10. | "Darling I'm a Mess" |
| Malouf | 2:59 |
11. | "White Flag" |
| 3:18 | |
12. | "Best Thing I Got" |
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| 3:19 |
Total length: | 40:32 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Eyes Wide Open. [16]
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Chart (2015) | Peak position |
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France Downloads Albums (SNEP) [17] | 181 |
UK Download Albums (OCC) [18] | 93 |
US Billboard 200 [19] | 43 |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref. |
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United States | April 14, 2015 | Hollywood | [20] |
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