Manchildren and pearl-clutchers, beware — Sabrina Carpenter‘s new album Man’s Best Friend is here.
On Friday (Aug. 29), the pop star dropped her highly anticipated seventh studio LP, complete with 12 tracks. That includes lead single “Manchild,” which earned Carpenter her second-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June, and “Tears,” a music video for which dropped at the same time as the album.
Produced by Jack Antonoff and released via Island Records, Man’s Best Friend arrives just over a year after the Grammy winner’s breakout album, Short n’ Sweet. Featuring hits “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” the 2024 project spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200, marking Carpenter’s first No. 1 album on the chart.
With Short n’ Sweet and now Man’s Best Friend, the singer has established herself as a lyrical master of double entendre, oftentimes charging her lyrics with brazenly sexual themes. Though she’s received some criticism for that — as well as the racy Man’s Best Friend album cover, which features her on all fours as a man grips her hair — Carpenter has stayed true to who she is.
“The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” Carpenter told Gayle King on CBS Mornings in a clip posted Thursday (Aug. 28). “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.”
“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,” she added at the time. “You can go like, ‘Oh, we can all sigh [in] relief like, ‘This is just fun.’ And that’s all it has to be.”
Listen to Man’s Best Friend below.