Nonsense

Album

Emails I Can't Send

Label

Island Records

Genre

Dance-pop

Composer(s)

Sabrina Carpenter;Steph Jones;Julian Bunetta

Entered Chart

Jan 28, 2023

Peak Date

Feb 4, 2023

Released

July 15, 2022

Recorded

Studio Enemy Dojo (Malibu, California)

"Nonsense" is a goofy song where Sabrina Carpenter loses control of her mouth and blabbers drivel whenever she's around her crush. Carpenter co-penned "Nonsense" with Nashville songwriter Steph Jones. The two also collaborated on the pop star's Singular: Act I singles "Almost Love" and "Sue Me," both of which topped the Billboard dance chart. Jones' other credits include Kelsea Ballerini's "Hole In The Bottle" and Little Big Town's "Over Drinking." Former One Direction songwriter Julian Bunetta produced the track. Carpenter recorded "Nonsense" for her album Emails I Can't Send. Though it was a fun track to write, she thought it was too ridiculous to make the final cut. "It's just the silliest song, and when we were writing it, I was like, 'It's never gonna be put out,'" she told Billboard. "At first I was like, 'It doesn't make sense with the album,' and then I kind of realized that there's a lot of dual feelings to heartbreak and grieving and moving on, and it can happy and sad and confident and insecure." The outro comprises comedic lyrics poking fun at the chorus. It ends with studio chatter and the sound of Carpenter and Jones laughing. "Basically, we were, like, we know the song is nonsense, we know the chorus, so we took a few of those lyrics that we love, that we were dying over, and we put them in the outro of the song," Carpenter explained on The Travils Mills Show. "It's cool that that kinda song was able to make it in the record, because I really think that also it shows my stupid sense of humor." Carpenter dropped a spicy, festive remix for the holiday season on December 7, 2022. "A Nonsense Christmas" finds the pop star putting a flirty Yuletide spin on the original song. Both tracks share the same beat and melody, but on the Christmas number, Carpenter takes on the persona of a vixen rather than an anxious blabbermouth. She spouts a stack of festive double-entendres as she tells her love interest that he tops her Christmas wish list.

No
(La-la, la-la) da-ah-ah, ah
(Ah-ah, uh, uh, uh, yeah)

Think I only want one number in my phone
I might change your contact to "don't leave me alone"
You said you like my eyes and you like to make 'em roll
Treat me like a queen, now you got me feelin' thrown, oh

But I can't help myself
When you get close to me
Baby, my tongue goes numb
Sounds like bleh, blah, blee
I don't want no one else (don't want)
Baby, I'm in too deep
Here's a lil' song I wrote (a song I wrote)
It's about you and me (me)

I'll be honest
Lookin' at you got me thinkin' nonsense
Cartwheels in my stomach when you walk in
And when you got your arms around me
Ooh, it feels so good I had to jump the octave
I think I got an ex but I forgot him
And I can't find my chill, I must have lost it
I don't even know I'm talkin' nonsense
I'm talkin', I'm talkin' (ah)

I'm talkin' all around clock
I'm talkin' hope nobody knocks
I'm talkin' opposite of soft
I'm talkin' wild, wild thoughts
You gotta keep up with me
I got some young energy
I caught the L-O-V-E
How do you do this to me?

But I can't help myself
When you get close to me
Baby, my tongue goes numb
Sounds like blah, blah, bleh, blee
I don't want no one else (don't want)
Baby, I'm in too deep (too deep)
Here's a lil' song I wrote (a song I wrote)
It's about you and me

I'll be honest (honest)
Lookin' at you got me thinkin' nonsense
Cartwheels in my stomach when you walk in (when you walk in)
When you got your arms around me
Ooh, it feels so good I had to hit the octave
I think I got an ex but I forgot him
And I can't find my chill, I must have lost it
I don't even know I'm talkin' nonsense (oh)
I'm talkin', I'm talkin', I'm talkin'

(I'm talkin', I'm talkin' na-na-na) I'm talkin', I'm talkin'
Blah, blah, blah, blah, uh-uh-uh-uh
Ah
I don't even know anymore
(Oh)

This song catchier than chickenpox is
I bet your house is where my other sock is
Woke up this morning, thought I'd write a pop hit
How quickly can you take your clothes off pop quiz?

That one's not gonna make it
Most of these aren't gonna make