{"id":1986474,"date":"2025-08-29T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986474"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:18:38","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-warns-new-album-mans-best-friend-is-not-for-the-pearl-clutchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sabrina-carpenter-warns-new-album-mans-best-friend-is-not-for-the-pearl-clutchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter warns new album &#8216;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8217; is &#8220;not for the pearl clutchers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sabrina-carpenter\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> has given fans a light-hearted warning that her new album is \u201cnot for the pearl clutchers\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/live\/sabrina-carpenter-bst-hyde-park-live-review-photos-setlist-3876543\">Sabrina Carpenter live in London: A testament to playing the long game to pop superstardom<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pop singer\u2019s seventh studio album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sabrina-carpenter-announces-new-album-mans-best-friend-3869099\">Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/a>\u2018 arrived today (August 29), having so far been previewed by the \u201csong of the summer\u201d and fan-favourite \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-sabrina-carpenter-new-video-for-song-of-the-summer-manchild-3867930\">Manchild<\/a>\u2018, the lyrics to which saw Carpenter call out inept men, with the visuals featuring her as a hitchhiker casting men aside one by one.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-colman-domingo-star-in-sabrina-carpenters-campy-new-tears-music-video-3888554\">shared today was the Colman Domingo-starring music video for \u2018Tears\u2019<\/a>, which followed suit and dialled up her disdain for men, eschewing her usual winking innuendo for the more direct lines: \u201c<em>I get wet at the thought of you\/Being a responsible guy\/Treating me like you\u2019re supposed to do\/Tears run down my thighs<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That in mind, <em>CBS Mornings<\/em> host Gayle King remarked that her music was \u201cunapologetic\u201d in an advance clip of Carpenter\u2019s upcoming appearance on the show, adding: \u201cI think there are some people that would listen to the music and they\u2019d be clutching their pearls.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sabrina Carpenter talks new album in exclusive interview: &quot;It is not for the pearl clutchers.&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6rZettJLsI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCorrect,\u201d she replies, to which Gayle responds, \u201cYeah. But then I\u2019m thinking, \u2018But then the song isn\u2019t for you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not for the pearl clutchers,\u201d Carpenter agreed. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sexual. It\u2019s also very powerful. It\u2019s also very vulnerable,\u201d King continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s the thing, is sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold or they go, \u2018I don\u2019t want to sing this in front of other people.\u2019 It\u2019s like it\u2019s almost too \u2013 it\u2019s TMI,\u201d Carpenter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 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, \u2018Oh, we can all, like\u2019 \u2014 sigh of relief \u2014 \u2018Like, this is just fun.\u2019 And, and that\u2019s all it has to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for other Sabrina Carpenter news, her recent headline slot at BST Hyde Park was given a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/live\/sabrina-carpenter-bst-hyde-park-live-review-photos-setlist-3876543\">glowing five-star review from\u00a0<em>NME<\/em><\/a>, and praised as one that \u201ceffortlessly reinforces her command over modern pop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFireworks 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,\u201d the review read, referring to \u2018Espresso\u2019. \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, she is set to join\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/j-balvin\">J Balvin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/01\/17\/busta-rhymes-charged-with-assault-new-york\/77761047007\/\">Busta Rhymes<\/a> as confirmed performers at the 2025 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/vmas\">MTV VMAs<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sabrina-carpenter-reacts-as-taylor-swift-collab-on-the-life-of-a-showgirl-title-track-is-confirmed-3884978\">It was also recently revealed that she is set to appear on the title track<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s forthcoming album \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019, which is out on October 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Carpenter has given fans a light-hearted warning that her new album is \u201cnot for the pearl clutchers\u201d. 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