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Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> brought music from her latest album, Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>, to Saturday Night Live<\/em>, pulling double duty as both host and musical guest on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old pop star delivered two standout performances from her seventh studio album, which debuted at No. 1<\/a> on the Billboard 200 in September.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n For her first performance, Carpenter appeared in a dimly lit bedroom set, wearing nothing but a white T-shirt and pink SNL<\/em>-branded underwear. She danced around the stage while performing Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>\u2019s lead single \u201cManchild,\u201d which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late June.<\/p>\n Later in the episode, Carpenter returned in a bedazzled white karate gi and black belt for a dojo-themed performance of the reggae-pop track \u201cNobody\u2019s Son.\u201d During the high-energy number, she dropped two F-bombs live on air while smashing wooden boards and knocking down fellow black belts. The expletives aired uncensored during the NBC live telecast and Peacock\u2019s simulcast but were muted during the West Coast broadcast and in versions later posted online, including on YouTube, according to the celebrity.land<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n While this marked her SNL<\/em> hosting debut, Carpenter previously served as musical guest in May 2024 and made an appearance during the SNL50<\/em> special in February, where she duetted with Paul Simon and co-starred in a \u201cDomingo\u201d sketch alongside Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n Carpenter is currently back on her Short n\u2019 Sweet Tour \u2014 now doubling as promotion for Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> \u2014 and is set to return to Los Angeles for six new dates, wrapping on Nov. 23.<\/p>\n Watch Carpenter\u2019s SNL<\/em> performances below. Find all the ways to watch the full episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’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":" Sabrina Carpenter brought music from her latest album, Man\u2019s Best Friend, to Saturday Night Live, pulling double duty as both host and musical guest on Oct. 18. The 26-year-old pop star delivered two standout performances from her seventh studio album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in September. More from Billboard For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2102207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313169,356805,340923,374986,27664,397515],"class_list":["post-2102206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard-200","tag-billboard-hot-100-chart","tag-mans-best-friend","tag-musical-guest","tag-sabrina-carpenter","tag-standout-performances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sabrina-Carpenter-Drops-F-Bomb-Dances-in-Underwear-While-Performing-\u2018Manchild.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102208,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102206\/revisions\/2102208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}