Sabrina Song shares music nostalgia, go-to road trip snacks and how much she’s learning from tour

Sabrina Song (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and producer who released her debut album You Could Stay in One Spot and I'd Love You the Same in the summer of 2024. Song takes us through the journey of insecurities and uncertainties of falling in love in your young adulthood – while ending the record positively. Before this, she has three EPs in her repertoire: Undone (2019), How’s It Going To End? (2020) and When It All Come Crashing Down (2022). Pleaser Magazine had the pleasure of catching up with Sabrina Song ather stop in Montreal’s Bar Le Ritz, opening for Carol Ades on her Late Start Tour.

Pleaser: How has tour been so far?

Sabrina Song: It's really been the best.

This is my first tour cross-country and I'm just learning so much in such a short time.

Getting to visit and perform in so many cities for the first time, talking to people after the show, trying new things on stage, doing it with my friends – I'm just so grateful.

What has been your go-to snack on the road?

SS: SweeTarts are my favourite. I have consumed so many on this tour.

What is your fondest musical memory?

SS: Too many to name, but one that came to mind was opening for Del Water Gap at a college show last year. It was one of the bigger audiences I've played for, and I played some of the album tracks for the first time.

The crowd was so receptive and energetic, even when it started pouring rain – it felt really magical and I just had so much fun.

You Could Stay in One Spot and I'd Love You the Same is your debut album. Were there any art pieces (music, film, literature, etc) that heavily inspired your project or creative journey? What song off the album was the hardest to finish, emotionally or creatively?

SS: The first track on the album was actually inspired by the book Station Eleven. I was reading a bunch of dystopian and/or post-apocalyptic novels at the time, and I was inspired by the characters' determination to understand why they had to live through what they were living through, how they found silver linings in their situation, and their struggle to remember how things used to be. The hardest song to finish was probably "Okay, Okay" – it was one of the first I wrote for the project, and it took a long time to shape the production into what I had wanted from the start. It was a puzzle of adding and subtracting elements until it felt lush but still delicate and light.

Although the album takes us through the stress and uncertainty of falling in love, it ends on a happy note. Was this always the case, or was there a time in the creation when the project ended on a not-so-positive note?

SS: I knew I always wanted the emotional takeaway from the album to be a relatively positive one. One of the main themes throughout the project for me is gratitude for the people I love, and even though the album explores insecurities and growing pains and uncertainty, the music is largely inspired by such a joyful period in my life.

I'm a huge fan of album names being mentioned in a song. Did the album name come before the lyrics in "Busy Work," or the opposite?

SS: The album title came from the lyric in "Busy Work." I felt like it captured everything I was speaking to throughout the album – nothing else that I was considering hit the same.

Once you're back home from tour, what is the first thing you're doing?

SS: Decorating for Christmas :-)

Are there any songs you've been obsessed with lately?

SS: I'm listening to the new Honeyglaze album Real Deal nonstop.

You can listen to Sabrina Song’s debut album here and follow her Instagram here!