Sabrina Carpenter Warns That Her NSFW ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Is ‘Not for Any Pearl-Clutchers’
If you raised an eyebrow at songs like “Juno” or “Bed Chem” from the Short n’ Sweet EP, buckle up. Sabrina Carpenter’s upcoming record Man’s Best Friend is for the unfiltered, and she’s making that crystal clear.
In a teaser that dropped Thursday (August 28), the singer told fans on her Instagram that this new album is “not for the faint of heart.” Translation? You might want to save those headphones for a late-night solo listening session. She also added that, if you click play, “don’t expect to be on a crowded train.”
“The album isn’t for people who clutch pearls,” Sabrina Carpenter told Gayle King when she dropped by for a chat ahead of the LP release this Friday, August 29. “But even those pearl clutchers, in the privacy of their own headphones, might listen and end up smirking or chuckling,” she smiled, shrugging off the conservative critics.
King mentioned that the new tracks are “sexual, yet powerful and vulnerable,” and Sabrina Carpenter’s eyes sparkled when she replied, “Exactly. Bold lyrics make some folks squeamish, and they think, ‘There’s no way I’m singing this in front of my coworkers.’”
Check out a sneak peek of her Friday CBS Mornings chat below.
“Sometimes it feels too TMI,” she continued. “But I picture a concert packed with young women in the front row, singing at the top of their lungs with their besties. I think, ‘Look, we all exhale, it’s just a little fun.’ This isn’t supposed to get deep—sometimes a song is just a song, and that’s that.”
Flashback to 2024, when Carpenter’s project Short n’ Sweet exploded and people couldn’t stop arguing over the unapologetic, saucy lyrics. No surprise the star still has to spell it out.
In the June Rolling Stone cover piece, Sabrina Carpenter joked, “People say, ‘All she does is sing about this,’ and I think, why is that funny to me?”
She added, “Those songs went viral because you pushed play. If you love sex and keep sharing it, of course it’s in the show. I’ve got, like, sixty little moments that never get filtered, and I can’t control your favorite angle.”
Her upcoming track “Man’s Best Friend” sparked similar “clutch the pearls” energy before it even dropped. Carpenter dropped the single cover—her on all fours, held in place by a man grabbing her hair—and the comments lit up, some fans calling it anti-woman.
According to Billboard, Not a big deal, she shrugged. Carpenter rolled out alternate covers that even the pearl clutchers can probably handle.
