The track of the summer time simply may belong to Sabrina Carpenter as soon as once more, because the pop star launched the music video for “Manchild” on Friday, lower than a day after formally releasing the one yesterday.
Within the cinematic video, Carpenter is hitchhiking throughout a desert panorama in every thing from pickup vehicles to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorbike, all of the whereas accompanied by himbos washing themselves with gasoline or attempting to smoke a firecracker like a cigarette. “Manchild” – which the 26-year-old teased on X (previously Twitter) by saying “this one’s about you!!” – was launched precisely one yr after her 2024 single “Please Please Please,” which turned her first track to high Billboard’s Sizzling 100 chart.
The track itself is an ear worm as Carpenter sings about silly, no good males, paired with Carpenter’s signature humorous, cheeky lyrics like “why so attractive if that’s the case dumb.” Carpenter co-wrote the track together with her Quick N’ Candy collaborators Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff.
Carpenter took to Instagram to clarify how the track got here to be. “I wrote ‘Manchild’ on a random Tuesday with Amy [Allen] and Jack [Antonoff] not too lengthy after ending Quick 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 track 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.
“It sounds just like the track embodiment of a loving eye roll and it appears like a by no means ending street journey in the summertime! Therefore why I needed 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, Quick N’ Candy. The one and album earned Carpenter two Grammy Awards in February for greatest pop solo efficiency with “Espresso” and greatest pop vocal album; she was nominated for six awards together with greatest new artist, album of the yr, track of the yr and file of the yr.
Regardless of not hitting No. 1, “Espresso” has been Carpenter’s greatest performing track by-far, with over 2.2 billion streams on Spotify. It’s spent 59 weeks on the Sizzling 100 chart and at present sits at No. 21.
Carpenter is slated to play further U.S. exhibits on her Quick N’ Candy this fall with stops at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard and L.A.’s Crypto.com Enviornment.
