Sabrina Carpenter Wants You to Put Your Phone Away at Shows

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Imagine a future where you can look around at the sea of faces in Madison Square Garden and not see a single phone, just 20,000 people living in the moment scream-singing “Espresso.” This is the future Sabrina Carpenter wants.

Rolling Stone published a bunch of quotes from the singer that didn’t make it into her recent cover story, which included Carpenter’s take on phones at concerts. “This will honestly piss off my fans, but...