Sabrina Carpenter warns new album ‘Man’s Best Friend’ is “not for the pearl clutchers”

Sabrina Carpenter has given fans a light-hearted warning that her new album is “not for the pearl clutchers”.

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The pop singer’s seventh studio album ‘Man’s Best Friend‘ arrived today (August 29), having so far been previewed by the “song of the summer” and fan-favourite ‘Manchild‘, the lyrics to which saw Carpenter call out inept men, with the visuals featuring her as a hitchhiker casting men aside one by one.

Also shared today was the Colman Domingo-starring music video for ‘Tears’, which followed suit and dialled up her disdain for men, eschewing her usual winking innuendo for the more direct lines: “I get wet at the thought of you/Being a responsible guy/Treating me like you’re supposed to do/Tears run down my thighs.”

That in mind, CBS Mornings host Gayle King remarked that her music was “unapologetic” in an advance clip of Carpenter’s upcoming appearance on the show, adding: “I think there are some people that would listen to the music and they’d be clutching their pearls.”

“Correct,” she replies, to which Gayle responds, “Yeah. But then I’m thinking, ‘But then the song isn’t for you.’”

“It is not for the pearl clutchers,” Carpenter agreed. “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.”

“It’s sexual. It’s also very powerful. It’s also very vulnerable,” King continued.

“I think that’s the thing, is sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold or they go, ‘I don’t want to sing this in front of other people.’ It’s like it’s almost too – it’s TMI,” Carpenter said.

“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, like’ — sigh of relief — ‘Like, this is just fun.’ And, and that’s all it has to be.”

As for other Sabrina Carpenter news, her recent headline slot at BST Hyde Park was given a glowing five-star review from NME, and praised as one that “effortlessly reinforces her command over modern pop”.

“Fireworks shoot out of the stage as Carpenter sings the biggest song of her career, which is only a year old, but somehow feels like the only song ever made,” the review read, referring to ‘Espresso’. “It’s catapulted the singer from an artist orbiting the pop girl league tables to one of its reigning champs, but her command of this space is a testament to the years of graft it took to get there. All she needed was time.”

Elsewhere, she is set to join J Balvin and Busta Rhymes as confirmed performers at the 2025 MTV VMAs next month.

It was also recently revealed that she is set to appear on the title track for Taylor Swift‘s forthcoming album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’, which is out on October 3.