Songwriter Amy Allen confirms the story behind Sabrina Carpenter’s song “Juno.”
Amy Allen, Sabrina Carpenter.
Getty Images (2)Songwriter Amy Allen She already has one Grammy win under her belt, but getting a nomination never gets old — and neither does celebrating the honor.
Allen, who received four nods last month when 2025 nominations It’s announced, and I discover my latest accolade in the most appropriate place possible: work.
“I was in London in the middle of the session,” the Los Angeles-based artist said exclusively. Us Weekly Earlier this month. “Obviously I was nervous because there are a lot of amazing writers who are my friends, and you never know what direction things are going to go. But I was in the middle of a session and my manager texted me, in all caps, ‘YES!’ and I said, ‘What do you mean?’” So I checked in and then texts from friends started coming in, and it was very exciting.
Allen couldn’t take much time to celebrate — she was at work, after all — but she and her fellow musicians toasted “a little congratulations” with an Aperol spritz, “which was very nice and fun,” she said.
The musician – who previously won a Grammy for Album of the Year last year for her work Harry Styles‘ Harry’s house – It was nominated for four awards at the 2025 ceremony: Song of the Year (Sabrina Carpenter“Please Please Please”), Album of the Year (Carpenter Short and sweet), Best Song Written for Visual Media (“ Best Place ” by NSync from Trolls band together) and Non-Classical Songwriter of the Year.
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Allen is especially honored to be nominated in the Songwriter of the Year category, which is only in its third year (she previously received a nod in 2023).
“It’s an opportunity to recognize your body of work and not just one specific song. For me, that’s really exciting, especially this year, because I have country songs that allowed me to get nominated,” she said. we. “Then I have a whole variety of different types of songs with the Sabrina Project, because she’s such an amazing artist and writer. She crosses genres. It’s a really exciting time for me to be able to move between genres and showcase the kind of songwriting that I love to do, which is really diverse and inclusive.”
The songs included in Allen’s Songwriter of the Year nomination are quite diverse: in addition to three Carpenter compositions (“Please Please,” “Taste” and “Espresso”), the list includes songs by Justin Timberlake, Olivia Rodrigo and Leon Bridges Plus two hits by the country artist Coy Wetzel.
Amy Allen.
Lorne Thompson/RedfernsIn between writing all those songs for other artists, Allen found time to record her self-titled debut album, which was released in September. While she likes the variety of musicians she collaborates with when she writes for other people, she takes a completely different approach when working on songs that she plans to keep for herself.
“I usually start songs at home myself. It comes from a place of like, I’ve been writing with and for others so much, for my soul, I just need to sit in silence for a while with my own thoughts and just write from the heart and get back to the music,” she explained. What I love in music.’ “So, that’s where all the songs from my first album came from, which is just taking a break from always helping someone else tell their story and giving a lot of my feelings to pop radio. It’s great for me to live outside the world of collaboration all the time and get more in-house, which is very relaxing for me. … It’s not swinging for the fences in any way like, ‘Let’s make this the biggest song possible.’
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Allen sure can write the biggest song possible, as evidenced by her work Short and sweet. She co-wrote all the songs on the popular album, which debuted at No. 1 ever. Bulletin board 200 and gave Carpenter her first No. 100 on “Please Please Please.”
The duo collaborated for the first time on Carpenter’s 2022 album, Emails that I cannot sendand Allen “immediately loved” their relationship. “The chemistry started building from day one,” she said. we. “I feel like people can spend their lives as a songwriter looking for collaborators, and I feel really grateful that I’ve had some amazing people so far in my career that I really cherish and that I’m constantly learning from as well.”
Allen said her favorite Short and sweet Changes follow depending on her mood, but she confirmed that “Juno” was actually inspired by the teen pregnancy movie of the same name — and that the raunchy, hilarious idea was “all Sabrina.”
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“I’m so grateful to have her as a collaborator in moments like this, because I think as a pop songwriter, five years ago, if someone had come up with this concept, it would have been like, ‘I’m not sure people would understand that,’” Allen explained. Because she’s so authentic and her artistry is so intact and she knows who she is, the minute she started talking about her idea for it, I was like, “Oh, we’re doing this, it’s going to be great and it’s going to be so.” Be witty and it will be honest. “She is a courageous leader and has ideas like these.”
Allen truly believes in the old adage that it’s an honor to be nominated — “Having your name up there in any capacity feels like a win already because music is so personal” — but if she wins again in February, her mother will vouch for it. It has a great place to put her second Grammy.
“I already had it [my away] In my little home studio, and then my mom visited me a few months ago and moved it from my home studio to my living room. “So it’s more clear now, and it’s a classic mom move. … [My mom’s like]”Let them know, let the world know!”
The 67th Grammy Awards air on CBS on Sunday, February 2 at 8 p.m. ET.
