Sabrina Carpenter is getting ready to launch her seventh studio album, Man’s Finest Good friend, her label introduced Wednesday morning.
The 26-year-old teased the brand new album, out this August, on her Instagram, including, “I can’t watch for it to be yours x.” The information comes on the heels of the pop star’s newest single, “Manchild,” which was launched final week and can function the lead single of Man’s Finest Good friend. She co-wrote the music with frequent collaborators Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff.
In a cinematic video for “Manchild,” Carpenter hitchhikes throughout a desert panorama in every little thing from pickup vehicles to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorbike, all of the whereas accompanied by the very males she’s singing about. The only — which the 26-year-old teased on X (previously Twitter) by saying “this one’s about you!!” — was launched precisely one 12 months after her 2024 single “Please Please Please,” which turned her first music to high Billboard’s Scorching 100 chart. Notably, Man’s Finest Good friend additionally comes only a handful of days over a 12 months from her final studio album, Brief N’ Candy.
Carpenter took to Instagram to clarify how the Man’s Finest Good friend lead single got here to be. “I wrote ‘Manchild’ on a random Tuesday with Amy [Allen] and Jack [Antonoff] not too lengthy after ending Brief N’ Candy, and it ended up being the most effective random Tuesday of my life. Not solely was it so enjoyable to put in writing, however this music turned to me one thing I can look again on that may rating the psychological montage to the very complicated and enjoyable younger grownup years of life,” she mentioned within the social media publish.
Sabrina Carpenter for “Manchild,” which can function the lead single off her new album, ‘Man’s Finest Good friend.’
Courtesy of Sabrina Carpenter
“It sounds just like the music embodiment of a loving eye roll and it looks like a by no means ending street journey in the summertime! Therefore why I wished to offer it to you now — so you’ll be able to stick your head out the automobile window and scream all of it summer time lengthy!” she added, cheekily signing off with “thanks males for testing me” with a pig and coronary heart emoji.
The pop singer’s profile exploded final summer time following the discharge of her 2024 single “Espresso” off the album, Brief N’ Candy. The only and album earned Carpenter two Grammy Awards in February for finest pop solo efficiency with “Espresso” and finest pop vocal album; she was nominated for six awards, together with finest new artist, album of the 12 months, music of the 12 months and report of the 12 months.
Regardless of not hitting No. 1, “Espresso” has been Carpenter’s finest performing music by far, with greater than 2.2 billion streams on Spotify. It’s spent 60 weeks on the Scorching 100 chart and at the moment sits at No. 20.
Carpenter is slated to play a second North American leg on her Brief N’ Candy tour this fall with stops at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard and L.A.’s Crypto.com Area. Man’s Finest Good friend shall be launched on Aug. 29 through Island Data.
