Earlier this summer, the pop star Sabrina Carpenter released “Manchild,” the first single from her seventh album, “Man’s Best Friend.” It’s a fluffy screed against a dude mired in an endless adolescence. Heading into the chorus, Carpenter sounds both rankled and coquettish: It’s all just so familiar, baby, what do you call it? Stupid Or is it slow? “I choose …
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The buzz around Sabrina Carpenter’s latest album may be loud, but it doesn’t hide the fact that the record itself is underwhelming. Despite provocative lyrics, most songs sound like uninspired rehashes of past successes or generic pop reminiscent of reality show soundtracks. To truly become Madonna 2.0, an artist needs to push boundaries in the studio, not just in writing …
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Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. “The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” the “Espresso” pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man’s Best Friend. And she wasn’t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album — not to mention her best. All over Man’s Best Friend, …
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After years toiling in the post-Disney-star pop ecosystem, Sabrina Carpenter finally broke through last year with Short n’ Sweet, her sixth album, which rode to pop ubiquity (and strong Grammys recognition) off the back of “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste” its three catchy, sharply written megahit singles. Since then, she’s staged a gigantic global arena tour and, somehow, found …
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The singer celebrated the release with fans during a Spotify-hosted party at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Hours before releasing her album, Sabrina Carpenter gave listeners a fair warning: “The album is not for any pearl clutchers.” On Friday, the pop star officially released her highly anticipated, not-for-prudes seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend. The 12-track album opens with the LP’s first-released …
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Sabrina Carpenter teased her upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, revealing that those who weren’t fans of the risqué nature of her Short n’ Sweet album may not like her newest project. In a teaser clip shared Thursday from her CBS Mornings appearance on Friday, Carpenter opened up about what fans can expect for her seventh studio album. “The album is …
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Considering it was revealed to the world with a trailer that featured four zombie-blasting soldiers singing along to Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name”, I expected John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando to be much funnier than it is. Inspired in equal measure by the supernatural horror and buddy action movies of the 1980s, it is big and dumb and …
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