Sabrina Carpenter defends new album ‘Man’s Best Friend’: “This is just fun”
Global pop-star Sabrina Carpenter has officially released her new album, Man’s Best Friend, a project she insists is “just fun.”
The new album totals 12 tracks and marks the musician’s seventh studio album. Upon the initial announcement, the project faced much backlash due to the provocative album cover, which saw the star on her knees being yanked by the hair by a faceless man.
Speaking to CBS Mornings on August 28th, Sabrina embraced the backlash and stated, “The album is not for any pearl clutchers. But 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.”
She moved on to discussing her own lyrics, which often touch on the intricacies of unhealthy relationships, such as the sugary-sweet ‘Manchild’. “Sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold, and they go, ‘I don’t want to sing this in front of other people.’ It’s like it’s almost too TMI,” Carpenter added.
Carpenter instead welcomes the TMI. “But I think about being at a concert with, you know, 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, ‘Oh, we can all sigh of relief, like, ‘This is just fun.’ And that’s all it has to be.”
Along with the album release, Carpenter posted a video for the album’s second song, ‘Tears’. The video begins with Carpenter dusting herself off after a car crash, approaching an ominous house for shelter from the oncoming storm. In the house, she is greeted by Colman Domingo in drag.
Later in the video, she gives in to her inhibitions; she pole dances in a field, and dances in a room made of mirrors, newly adorned with sequins that shimmer as she moves. By the end of the video, she is dancing with the ensemble she was originally so fearful of. When her boyfriend returns, she kills him with her stiletto, shrugging, “We have to give the people what they want.”
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