Thumbs by Sabrina Carpenter
The song “Thumbs” by Sabrina Carpenter.
What is the meaning of the song Thumbs by Sabrina Carpenter?
Thumbs is a song recorded by American singer, songwriter and actress Sabrina Carpenter from her second studio album titled EVOLution. Speaking with iHeartRadio in November 2016, Carpenter revealed for the first time the meaning of Thumbs. According to her, the song talks “about the world”, where “there is so much hate” going on. She talked of how there is always “so much of the same thing” happening all the time and the need to change things and make the world better.
According to her, the message of the song is that we shouldn’t be “mediocre”. We should go out and be “greater than that.” So whenever you hear Carpenter’s Thumbs playing on the radio, she’s basically telling you to go out there and look at things and do things differently from your mundane routines.
Carpenter in the music video for the song “Thumbs”.
Facts about Sabrina Carpenter’s song “Thumbs”
- Contrary to popular belief, Carpenter did not write Thumbs. The song was written by renowned songwriters Steve Mac and Priscilla Renea.
- In addition to co-writing the song, Steve Mac, who is also a record producer, produced it.
- The song was released worldwide on January 3, 2017 to critical acclaim.
- The song’s music video was released on YouTube and Vevo on 10th February, 2017.
- Carpenter performed the song live for the first time on 25th August, 2016 at the iHeartRadio Theater located in Los Angeles.
- The song peaked at number one on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.
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this is woke for sure.
Honestly I thought it’s meaning was something surrounding consumption or how our world was becoming a dystopia but I guess not.
I didn’t get that at all linds. I thought it was about inc**t tbh
Me too. I mean the daughter married her uncle. I still don’t exactly understand how that relates to “the world” but it’s a nice beat so whtvr
Hey in india an uncle who is brother of girl’s mother can marry that girl. This is true I know it because iam an Indian and I see it’s happening in our society. This song can be connected to every person in this world. Hatsoff to writers and Sabrina for creating this thought-provoking song🔥
Whats wrong there, nothing but the real problem is it wastes the girl;s life.
Any girl would like to marry a boy and nearly never old people getting a young girl married for first time with an old man which may had two or more marriages earlier ruins the whole life of the girl and i can figure out why parents do that to their poor daughters even though i dont accept with it
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Um actually the duaghter married the brother of her brothers wife(basically her brothers brother inlaw) if you pay attention to it but you right
It’s doesn’t say brother of THE mother is says brother of A mother
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
The mother and a mother — two different mothers
It’s about marrying to keep money in the family. “They all just try to multiply [$$$] with one another”
The song is a bit confusing in the beginning but when they say the fathers mother and then mother in the next sentence their talking about the same person, so the fathers sister gets married to his wife’s brother
That’s just one lyric, did you listen to the whole song or just the first part lmfao
Legit they picked the single most worst frame on her face from the music video
Everybody is confusing rn cause family trees are confusing i probably made no sense whatsoever
Check Out the greek Gods Family Tree. That’ll do you a bamboozle
I’m the daughter of a brother who married a sister of a brothers who father was the brother of another
Everything but the brother of another is true, it just rhymed
Rhyming and Rythmic. ME: 63 yrs old
it hits hard
I thought it was about how marriage was so overrated and that girls should not be put lower than boys. I also thought it was about how everyone marries someone and like this was the norm but it actually isn’t because LGBTQ community exists
Basically, they are not married to their relatives because here:
“Somewhere in the world, there is a father and a mother and the father is a son, who has a mother.” There are three persons mentioned in these lines. The father, the mother, and the grandma.
“The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother.” It says here that the mother has a daughter and that daughter married the brother of another mother.
You can tell that there is no incest happening because if it does, the line would say “THE MOTHER has a DAUGHTER who gets married to the BROTHER of THE MOTHER.”
It’s kinda confusing but I hope you guys can understand.
This song is so true
every comment on here is just trying to explain what that 1 line is lol
thought this song was about inc**t and no one can change my mind
Tbh the part about being paid the same is true but is it actually too far to pull out of that cycle
tbh this is my fav song
No that’s not what she is saying she is saying there is a father and a mother and the father has a son who has a mother mother has a daughter who get married to the brother of a mother it’s not saying the mother it’s saying a mother