{"id":31454,"date":"2025-08-29T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31454\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:03:07","slug":"sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-five-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31454\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’: Five Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSabrina Carpenter<\/a> tried to warn you. \u201cThe album is not for any pearl clutchers,\u201d the \u201cEspresso\u201d pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man\u2019s Best Friend. And she wasn\u2019t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album \u2014 not to mention her best. All over Man\u2019s Best Friend, Sabrina delivers nonstop one-liners about love, sex, and breaking up. Right from the start, she set out to punch people\u2019s buttons, starting with the title and the hugely controversial album cover. The photo depicts Sabrina on her hands and knees in a little black dress, reaching up to a power-suited figure who\u2019s grabbing a fistful of her blonde hair. The songs live up to that spirit \u2014 it\u2019s the great smutty sex-comedy concept album that Abba never made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also full of delightfully catty break-up salt, after her high-profile split from Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan. But the whole album is a major statement from a true original \u2014 nobody in the game combines sex and laughter the way Sabrina does. Here are five takeaways from Man\u2019s Best Friend.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe\u2019s Not One to Waste Time<\/strong>
Sabrina moves fast \u2014 Man\u2019s Best Friend comes almost exactly a year after her breakthrough Short n\u2019 Sweet, the August 2024 blockbuster that made her a household name. But instead of taking her time with the follow-up, she introduced her new era back in June, with \u201cManchild,\u201d her second Number One hit after \u201cPlease Please Please.\u201d Man\u2019s Best Friend gets right to the point \u2014 twelve songs in 38 minutes, all written by Carpenter with just three collaborators: Jack Antonoff, Amy Allen, and John Ryan. All three are on top of their game \u2014 not a skip in the bunch. Antonoff really puts out as her producer, helping her cram the music full of nonstop twists and turns, with loads of Abba and Eurodisco. His most famous collaborator has been Sabrina\u2019s pal\/tourmate\/mentor Taylor Swift, but she made her upcoming album with Max Martin and Shellback. (Carpenter is featured on the title song, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d) So no wonder Antonoff sounds extra-determined to remind everyone why he\u2019s the producer-king wingman to all the main pop girls.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSabrina\u2019s Got Sex on the Brain<\/strong>
No surprise here \u2014 Sabrina spends virtually of these songs on the prowl for carnal satisfaction, milking every kind of sexual scenario. She never runs out of risqu\u00e9 imagery. The synth-pop banger \u201cHouse Tour\u201d is one of her most hilariously filthy songs. After dinner with a dim bulb who drives a cool car (\u201cthe pineapple air freshener is my favorite kind\u201d), she invites her date back to her home on \u201cPretty Girl Avenue,\u201d offering, \u201cI\u2019m pleasured to be your hot tour guide.\u201d But it soon becomes clear she\u2019s not talking real estate. \u201cDo you want the house tour?\u201d she purrs. \u201cI could take you to the first, second, third floors\/And I promise none of this is a metaphor\/I just want you to come inside.\u201d She constructs the song with all her lyrical carpentry, from \u201cI spent a little fortune on the waxed floors\u201d to \u201cWe can be a little reckless because it\u2019s insured\u201d to \u201cNever enter through the back door.\u201d Location, location, location.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe Needs Emotional R-E-S-P-E-C-T<\/strong>
Sabrina is not exactly coy when it comes to shredding lovers who fail to deliver. In her excellent new single \u201cTears,\u201d she explains that what she really needs is an emotional connection. The chorus has one of her most clever hooks: \u201cI get wet at the thought of you\/Being a responsible guy\/Treating me like you\u2019re supposed to do\/Tears run down my thighs.\u201d She goes into detail about her ideal of seductive male behavior \u2014 \u201cConsidering I have feelings? I\u2019m like, \u2018Why are my clothes still on?\u2019\u201d \u2014 and how much it turns her on when you do the dishes and assemble her IKEA furniture. (She debuted the \u201cTears\u201d video on Friday, a Rocky Horror homage starring Colman Domingo.)<\/p>\n

\n\tShe faces a different version of the same dilemma in \u201cMy Man on Willpower,\u201d where she laments, \u201cMy man won\u2019t touch me with a twenty-foot pole\/My slutty pajamas not temping him in the least.\u201d Whatever he\u2019s going through, it leaves her frustrated, asking, \u201cWhat in the fucked-up romantic dark comedy is this nightmare?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tEven Sabrina Gets the Break-Up Blues<\/strong>
Hell hath no fury like a Sabrina scorned, and this album is full of songs where she rips her exes apart. After the headlines about her split from Keoghan, she did a not-so-subtle remake of the \u201cPlease, Please, Please\u201d video with Dolly Parton, where his character is bound and gagged in the back of her truck. So fans were ready for Saltbrina to fire away, and she doesn\u2019t hold back, with kiss-offs like \u201cI just wish you didn\u2019t have a mind that could flip like a switch\/That could wander and drift to a neighboring bitch.\u201d She hits the town for a rebound bender in \u201cGo Go Juice.\u201d \u201cA girl who knows her liquor is a girl who\u2019s been dumped,\u201d she sings, until she decides to drunk-dial her troubles away. \u201cCould be John or Larry, gosh, who\u2019s to say? Or the one that rhymes with \u2018villain\u2019 if I\u2019m feeling that way.\u201d (\u201cVillain\u201d might not exactly rhyme with \u201cKeoghan\u201d \u2014 though Bob Dylan is a longtime friend of the Beatle Keoghan plays in an upcoming movie \u2014 but \u201cLarry\u201d sure rhymes with \u201cBarry.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen it comes to saying farewell, she doesn\u2019t necessarily take the high road. \u201cGoodbye\u201d concludes, \u201cI\u2019ll say arrivederci, au revoir\/Forgive my French but fuck you, ta ta.\u201d Her nastiest barb here is \u201cNever Getting Laid,\u201d her sarcastic revision of \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d as she lets her ex know, \u201cI wish you a lifetime full of happiness\/And a forever of never getting laid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe\u2019s Sick of Her Phone<\/strong>
Sabrina meets her share of romantic buzzkills on Man\u2019s Best Friend, but she\u2019s got especially harsh words for phone junkies. In the highlight \u201cSugar Talking,\u201d she goes ballistic on a lover who spends more time texting than showing up in person. \u201cPut your loving where your mouth is,\u201d she commands, after getting one too many late-night texts. \u201cYour paragraphs mean shit to me \/ Get your sorry ass to mine.\u201d She commands him to put down the phone and focus on giving her some IRL face-to-face action. He sends her flowers to apologize, but that doesn\u2019t do it for her either. It\u2019s a bold stand from a romantic who wants less thumb-typing and more face time. \u201cYou having these epiphanies,\u201d she sneers. \u201cBig word for a real small mind\/Aren\u2019t you tired of saying a whole lot of nothing?\u201d Like the rest of Man\u2019s Best Friend, it\u2019s Sabrina at her nastiest, funniest, and most irresistible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. \u201cThe album is not for any pearl clutchers,\u201d the \u201cEspresso\u201d pop goddess…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,974],"class_list":{"0":"post-31454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}