Sabrina Carpenter has returned together with her highly-anticipated seventh full-length effort, Man’s Finest Buddy. Stream the album beneath, together with the video for her new single, “Tears,” starring Coleman Domingo.
Following the blockbuster success of Quick n’ Candy in 2024, the brand new LP seems to be to solidify Carpenter’s place as one of many main girls of pop. The 12-track follow-up was written by Carpenter with frequent collaborators Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff, and John Ryan.
“It’s not for the pearl clutchers, the album will not be for any pearl clutchers,” Carpenter informed CBS Mornings of her newest launch and its content material matter. “I believe that’s the factor, is usually folks hear the lyrics which might be actually daring or they go, ‘I don’t need to sing this in entrance of different folks.’ It’s prefer it’s nearly too it, it, it’s TMI. However I take into consideration being at a live performance with, you already know, nonetheless many younger girls I see within the entrance row which might be screaming on the prime of their lungs with their finest associates. And you’ll go like, ‘Oh, we will all, like, sigh of aid like, ‘That is simply enjoyable.’ And, and that’s all it must be.”
It’s been a whirlwind of a yr for the singer, who has spent a lot of that point on tour in help of her breakthrough sixth album, Quick n’ Candy (2024). Full of hit singles together with “Espresso” (which was Trent Reznor’s favourite track final yr), “Please Please Please,” and “Mattress Chem,” the album spent the second-most time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2024, solely behind Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Division.
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The Quick n’ Candy album returned earlier this yr within the type of a deluxe version, loaded with 5 further songs, together with a remix of “Please Please Please” that includes music icon Dolly Parton. Earlier than she signed off on the remix, nonetheless, Parton delivered a algorithm to Carpenter concerning the collaboration: “I don’t cuss, I don’t make enjoyable of Jesus. I don’t discuss unhealthy about God, and I don’t say soiled phrases on digital camera.”
The “Quick n’ Candy” tour was so successful that Carpenter added one other run of exhibits, which kicks off in late October after she headlines each weekends of this yr’s Austin Metropolis Limits pageant. She’s even thought-about banning telephones at her exhibits, though she admits such a transfer “will actually piss off my followers.” See her tour dates beneath, and get tickets right here.
Simply final month at a present in London, the singer welcomed pop icons Simon Le Bon and John Taylor of Duran Duran to the stage for a rendition of the band’s ’80s hit, “Hungry Just like the Wolf.”
Man’s Finest Buddy generated a sea of controversy lengthy earlier than it was launched, again when Carpenter first revealed the extremely suggestive cowl artwork. Whereas the risque imagery was defended by none lower than singer Carly Simon (“She’s not doing something outrageous”), the pop star struck again with an alternate album cowl, which she deemed “Accepted by God.”
The album’s lead single (and music video), “Manchild,” was robust sufficient to be deemed our “Tune of the Week” when it arrived.
Subsequent month, Carpenter is slated to carry out on the 2025 MTV VMAs.
Man’s Finest Buddy Tracklist:
01. Manchild
02. Tears
03. My Man on Willpower
04. Sugar Speaking
05. We Nearly Broke Up Once more Final Evening
06. No person’s Son
07. By no means Getting Laid
08. When Did You Get Scorching?
09. Go Go Juice
10. Don’t Fear I’ll Make You Fear
11. Home Tour
12. Goodbye
Sabrina Carpenter 2025 US Tour Dates:
10/04 – Austin, TX @ Austin Metropolis Limits
10/11 – Austin, TX @ Austin Metropolis Limits
10/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Enviornment
10/24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Enviornment
10/26 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
10/28 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
10/29 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
10/31 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
11/01 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
11/04 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Enviornment
11/05 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Enviornment
11/10 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Enviornment
11/11 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Enviornment
11/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Enviornment
11/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Enviornment
11/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Enviornment
11/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Enviornment
11/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Enviornment
