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It\u2019s not easy to be a convincing humorist in pop music. By design, lyrics are always meant to be a little quirky but few pop stars have mastered the art of hamming it up quite like Sabrina Carpenter. On Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>, Carpenter is in break-up mode the only way she could be: sad but still horny and altogether self-aware.<\/p>\n Just a year out from her blockbuster breakthrough Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>, the singer\u2019s seventh album was created with a tight crew who had been integral to her previous release: Jack Antonoff, Amy Allen and John Ryan. Together with Carpenter\u2019s innuendo-laden wit at the helm, the album zeroes in on the updated Seventies pastiche that worked so well on her biggest hits. She\u2019s a little bit ABBA and a lotta bit Dolly: the Pennsylvania-native hits a charming Southern twang over swathes of synths, airy guitar riffs, and funky n\u00fc-disco beats. Her new songs are united in their grooviness as Carpenter\u2019s heartbreak and disappointment in her male options takes her on a thoroughly modern tour of what dating, embracing, and then flipping the script on the humiliation ritual that is being a woman who dates men.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n From the opening \u201cOh, boy\u201d on \u201cManchild,\u201d Carpenter spends the entire album dishing out tough love for her lovers, unrelenting in listing out her grievances. On \u201cTears,\u201d she only \u201cgets wet at the thought\u201d of him \u201cbeing a responsible guy.\u201d On both \u201cMy Man on Willpower\u201d and \u201cNobody\u2019s Son,\u201d she\u2019s exhausted by her lover\u2019s selective control. On the former, they\u2019re together but he\u2019s not as touchy and clingy and feral for her as he used to be. On the latter, they\u2019ve broken up and he hasn\u2019t caved on calling her yet.<\/p>\n Carpenter has few peers these days when it comes to turning some of the most uncomfortable or even painful feelings when you\u2019re crying over an ex into giggle-worthy treats. \u201cNever Getting Laid\u201d stands out. The slow burning, sexy song has her wishing the best for her ex \u2014 so long as he stays in his house and never looks or touches another woman again. She drinks the pain away on \u201cGo Go Juice,\u201d running through the numbers on her phone over a two-steppin\u2019 beat that belongs in your local honky tonk.<\/p>\n The two standouts on the album are when Carpenter is at her flirtiest and her wit is at its quickest. The funky \u201cWhen Did You Get Hot?\u201d has her encountering a long time acquaintance who she didn\u2019t remember looking so cute. \u201cYou were an ugly kid, but you\u2019re a sexy man,\u201d she comments, in a line that can only work with her winking delivery. \u201cHouse Tour,\u201d a coulda-been Song of the Summer contender if only it had come out a month earlier, is bold enough to have made 1983 Madonna seethe with jealousy. She\u2019s beckoning a new lover to come see her house because she\u2019s \u201cjust so proud of [her] design.\u201d On the chorus she assures \u201cI just want you to come inside\/But never enter through the back door.<\/p>\n It may have taken Carpenter six albums to finally find the right formula that works for her as a budding pop diva, but now it\u2019s clear there\u2019s no looking back. If Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em> solidified her stardom, Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> plates her status in gold.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not easy to be a convincing humorist in pop music. By design, lyrics are always meant to be a little quirky but few pop stars have mastered the art of hamming it up quite like Sabrina Carpenter. 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