Emma Chamberlain Reveals Why She Keeps Dating Musicians, Quoting Sabrina Carpenter: ‘I Swear They Choose Me, I’m Not Choosing Them’

Emma Chamberlain is getting candid about her dating habits.

Appearing on an episode of her friend and fellow podcaster Owen Thiele’s In Your Dreams podcast, the influencer and content creator opened up about her her previous dating habits — having been linked to both singer-songwriters Role Model (born Tucker Pillsbury) and Peter McPoland in the last five years.

On the Nov. 28 podcast, titled “I got stuffed with Emma Chamberlain,” Thiele said to Chamberlain, “Um, Emma can I ask you a question? Why do you keep dating musicians?”

Chamberlain laughed at the question, responding with, “Can I answer this with a quote?”

“To quote Sabrina Carpenter, once again, ‘I swear they choose me. I’m not choosing them,'” the influencer said, quoting a line from Carpenter’s song “Manchild” off of her Man’s Best Friend album.

“No, they choose me,” Chamberlain doubled down, laughing and admitting, “And I choose them a little too.”

The content creator went on to reveal what she called ‘interesting evidence” for the fact that musicians were choosing her — not the other way around.

“I have never slid into the DM of a musician. Only ever has the music man slid in to mine,” she joked. “I have never walked up to at a bar a man in music. Only ever has a man in music walked up to me at a bar.”

“Yes, but Emma, you attract that,” Thiele said back, asking, “Do you think it’s like a talent — like watching them on stage gets you going?”

Chamberlain responded, “You know what’s weird? Like that does do a little something, but that’s not like the root of it. I kind of can’t figure out what it is.”

“Like let’s say I was into baseball player like or let’s say I met a really hot baseball player like I would think it was hot that the baseball player was playing baseball,” she explained. “It’s like any guy doing anything that they love like I’m going to be like that’s hot.”

Chamberlain added that the musician thing may have just been a coincidence, while seemingly referring to her ex-boyfriend Pillsbury whom she dated from 2020-2023: “The first time, that was random. It was random that he made music. Like that was irrelevant. Yeah. Like I didn’t care about that.”

“The second time when I met the person, I didn’t know that they made music and I found out later after I met them… and I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re doing this again,’ ” she laughed.

Later, Thiele asked Chamberlain what it was like to have so much music made about her, to which Chamberlain responded that it was illuminating. “I learned about my own relationship through the music,” she said. “Does that make sense? Like I’ve learned truly how perhaps people have felt about me through music, which is great, but it’s also kind of like it’s weird when you hear more in the music than in real life. You’re like, ‘Wait, really? You feel that way?'”

The influencer, 24, recently confirmed her now single relationship status on the latest episode of her podcast, Anything Goes.

She was previously rumored to be dating musician Peter McPoland after the two were spotted together during the 2024 Paris Olympics and coordinated Halloween costumes later that year.

Chamberlain opened the Thursday, Nov. 13 episode of her podcast by sharing that she’s “going through a breakup right now” after being in a “serious relationship that was two years long.” She added, “We really deeply loved each other.”