{"id":1994177,"date":"2025-09-03T05:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1994177"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:49:27","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-on-the-heartbreak-and-humor-of-her-new-album-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sabrina-carpenter-on-the-heartbreak-and-humor-of-her-new-album-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter on the heartbreak and humor of her new album : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-86591\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 3768;&#10;        --source-height: 3759;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3768x3759+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F23%2F1ff93c3e4931acd2e41383e0c656%2Fmain-front-cover.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1025px) 650px, calc(100vw - 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30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s new album <em>Man&#8217;s Best Friend<\/em> uses humor to cope with heartbreak.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Bryce Anderson<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Bryce Anderson<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter&#8217;s new album <em>Man&#8217;s Best Friend <\/em>has the feel of women gossiping about dating and toxic relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It kind of sounds like women speaking to each other because it is women speaking to each other,&#8221; Carpenter told NPR&#8217;s Leila Fadel.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the album comes a year after her Grammy-winning <em>Short n&#8217; Sweet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Man&#8217;s Best Friend <\/em>is full of the double entendres and innuendo Carpenter is known for. On her song &#8220;House Tour,&#8221; she sings: &#8220;Do you want the house tour? I could take you to the first, second, third floor. And I promise none of this is a metaphor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Carpenter recommends listening to the album in order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story kind of starts, you know, when you&#8217;re still in a relationship, and ends obviously when you&#8217;re kind of on the other end of it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star spoke with <em>Morning Edition<\/em> about why relationships can be so hard and about her controversial album cover, which depicts her kneeling beside a man pulling her hair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5430506-100\" class=\"bucketwrap video youtube-video large\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9vuCByb6js?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>                <b class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <b class=\"source\">YouTube<\/b><br \/>\n                <\/b>\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leila Fadel: <\/strong>I was listening to the lyrics, and it made me laugh. What was the vibe when you were writing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sabrina Carpenter: <\/strong>How can I be so self-aware and yet so blind and so stupid at the same time? Women are the smartest and the dumbest, in my experience. It&#8217;s like they are dumb exactly when they want to be. I think that that&#8217;s kind of a theme that I tackle throughout the whole album, just because it&#8217;s a little bit more about the reflection of my own choices and these relationships and how I get into them and how I get out of them. I think even with my last record, it was sort of like there was a little bit more spite towards people. That hurt my feelings. And I think this one was a little bit more like, you know what? Can&#8217;t be that mad because I am putting myself in these positions to kind of experience these things. So yeah, I think it&#8217;s just like 2% healed, which gives me a lot more room to grow.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Fadel: <\/strong>The way you write about heartbreak is very honest, but also hilarious. Like one of my favorite songs, &#8220;Never Get Laid&#8221; is so funny because you&#8217;re saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m not angry. I love you just the same. 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I think in terms of, maybe experiencing an ending that doesn&#8217;t have to be all that bitter. But then you realize, when you look deeper in yourself, ask yourself the thing that you&#8217;re actually afraid of, it&#8217;s not really that you hope that they never experience happiness again. It&#8217;s that you hope that they don&#8217;t experience the same love with someone else or a better love with someone else. So I think it was just the most blunt way to say, &#8220;I want you to be happy from the inside of your home forever.&#8221; And I think that that&#8217;s just as nice as saying, &#8220;I wish you all the best.&#8221; I don&#8217;t wish you all the best. But I wish you some of the best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fadel: <\/strong>The album cover sparked quite the controversy. It&#8217;s you on all fours with a man out of frame pulling some of your hair. And some people saw it as demeaning for women. Were you surprised at all by the reaction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carpenter: <\/strong>Yeah, I was surprised. I think mostly because when I thought about making this album cover, I was really inspired by a man sort of delicately playing with my hair. Because I think there were a lot of metaphors between this dog and me emotionally. You know, a man&#8217;s best friend and sort of all the implications that that comes with it, the power in dominance and submission. When I saw it, obviously for me, it checked all the boxes in between my friends and family. It just felt like what the music sounds like.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Fadel: <\/strong>In the song &#8220;Tears&#8221; you sing, <em>&#8220;A little respect for women can get you very very far, Remembering how to use your phone gets me, Oh so, oh so, oh so hot.&#8221; <\/em>Tell me about the song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carpenter: <\/strong>Well, I think that was the humor in it being like, isn&#8217;t it funny how when you&#8217;re young, you&#8217;re like, I want them to be tall, I want them to be handsome, I want them to be funny. I want them to be smart. And then you get older, you know, like I want them to be nice. Just have a job, you know, like decent self respect, emotional maturity. Like it starts to get pathetic almost. 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