{"id":33055,"date":"2025-08-30T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/33055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:00:06","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-album-lyrics-might-not-be-for-pearl-clutchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/33055\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter album lyrics might not be for &#8216;pearl clutchers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/85887053007-trnd-sabrina-carpenters-self-motivation-thumb.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter reveals sassy phrase she uses when she&#8217;s down<\/p>\n<p>At Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8221; album launch event with Spotify in Hollywood, the singer answered a question about how to get out of a rut.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/sabrina-carpenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> never warned you.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/02\/03\/sabrina-carpenter-wins-2025-grammys\/78051977007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Grammy-winning popstar<\/a> opened up about her music and visuals not being everyone&#8217;s cup of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2024\/10\/18\/snl-domingo-skit-espresso-sabrina-carpenter-viral\/75735381007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Espresso<\/a>&#8221; due to their sexual nature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN5iyqqjqPP\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in a clip of her upcoming interview<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/08\/20\/gayle-king-oprah-sports-illustrated-swim-dating-essentials\/74672824007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gayle King<\/a> for CBS Mornings.<\/p>\n<p>After King complimented the 26-year-old for her &#8220;unapologetic&#8221; lyrics that have &#8220;some people &#8230; clutching their pearls,&#8221; Carpenter replied that her new album &#8220;is not for any pearl clutchers.&#8221; She then backtracked a bit, saying, &#8220;I also think that even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On her seventh album, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/29\/sabrina-carpenter-album-lyrics-mans-best-friends\/85884223007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Man&#8217;s Best Friend<\/a>&#8221; (out Friday, Aug. 29), nine of the 12 tracks are labeled as explicit, and her cover art \u2013 featuring her kneeling on the floor as a hand pulls her blonde locks \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/06\/11\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-cover-mans-best-friend\/84159803007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">divided the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/02\/04\/sabrina-carpenter-dolly-parton-short-n-sweet-deluxe\/78214673007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Her live performances<\/a> for her most recent album, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/02\/04\/sabrina-carpenter-dolly-parton-short-n-sweet-deluxe\/78214673007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Short n&#8217; Sweet<\/a>,&#8221; became known for Carpenter&#8217;s wide-ranging closet of lingerie costumes, cheeky interactions with the crowds and her verbal and physical sexual innuendos.<\/p>\n<p>Performances of her song &#8220;Juno,&#8221; a cheeky track about wanting to become pregnant because of how much she adores her partner (&#8220;Wanna try out some freaky positions?&#8221;), have gone viral during her ongoing tour due to her reenactment of various creative sex positions.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter told King she knows some people think her lyrics are &#8220;TMI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;But I think about being at a concert with however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends. And you can go like, &#8216;Oh, we can all, like, sigh of relief like, &#8216;This is just fun.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full interview will come out at 7 a.m. ET Friday, Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Short n\u2019 Sweet: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/10\/06\/sabrina-carpenter-concert-review-short-n-sweet-tour\/75533197007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter brings sweetness and light to her polished, playful concerts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8217; track list<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend,&#8221; Carpenter&#8217;s seventh studio effort, follows the release of her Grammy-winning 2024 album &#8220;Short n&#8217; Sweet.&#8221; The album, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sabrina-carpenter\/chart-history\/hsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart<\/a>, spawned the hit singles &#8220;Espresso,&#8221; &#8220;Please Please Please,&#8221; &#8220;Taste&#8221; and &#8220;Bed Chem,&#8221; as well as solidified the singer&#8217;s playful pin-up girl image.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter first teased &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8221; with the release of &#8220;Manchild&#8221; on June 5. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aSugSGCC12I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">music video<\/a>\u00a0for the synth-pop track drew buzz on social media for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/06\/03\/sabrina-carpenter-micro-shorts-new-single\/84014114007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Carpenter&#8217;s bold look<\/a>, which consisted of a white button-up, baby blue heels and denim &#8220;micro&#8221; shorts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">&#8216;Really meant to silence women&#8217;: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2024\/12\/03\/sabrina-carpenter-women-sex-hookup-culture\/76704696007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter and why the way we talk about sex is changing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The track list is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Manchild&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Tears&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My Man on Willpower&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sugar Talking&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Nobody&#8217;s Son&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Never Getting Laid&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When Did You Get Hot?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Go Go Juice&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry I&#8217;ll Make You Worry&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;House Tour&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Goodbye&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Contributing: Edward Segarra and Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter reveals sassy phrase she uses when she&#8217;s down At Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s &#8220;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8221; album launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[840,365,25932,434,5716,18,117,25933,14467,19,17,24919,3255,5714,526,5718,337,1221,5,5707,713,1234,1215,4513,981,3653,974,1214,1213,1230,716],"class_list":{"0":"post-33055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-carpenter","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-gayle","16":"tag-gayle-king","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-king","20":"tag-life","21":"tag-life-now","22":"tag-local","23":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","24":"tag-music","25":"tag-neutral","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-now","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-neutral","30":"tag-point","31":"tag-pop","32":"tag-pop-music","33":"tag-sabrina","34":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","35":"tag-the","36":"tag-to","37":"tag-to-the-point","38":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055","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=33055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}