So Sabrina Carpenter has now released a little more than a year after her last and hit -dripping album Short N ‘Sweet. Man’s best friend had caused a bit of unrest in advance because the cover looked as if the young and hard-working pop singer and actress with Disney’s past were submitted to the male gender and rubs submissive on one leg. But nothing there.
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It is a break-up album that describes all the ups and downs of this very special state of relationships. Freedom, anger, pain, despair. Adult issues. It’s about men who are attractive, just because they treat women respectfully, it’s about men who want to have again, but only in their good version. It’s about the bottle of wine that you drink and then search for a number in the phone book that you can call to have distraction sex.
These footsteps that she wants to fall into are not too big for her and her all-Americana voice
And all of this is available with the now legendary Carpenter humor. Lyrics that some fans find strange to scream. And which are at least very clever. As with the single “Tears”, i.e. tears, which at Carpenter do not clearly arise from grief and have to come out of sight, but their wetness arises in the pure thought of him.
And are there as many hits on the last album? That will show the time. John Ryan, Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff and Carpenter appear as producers. We hear 80ies synth pop, country, groove, midtempo, 90ies hiphop. We hear quite direct ABBA bonds in “My Man on Willpower”. Donna Summer and Dolly Parton also mentioned Sabrina Carpenter as references in advance. These footsteps into which she wants to grab there are not too big for her and her all-Americana voice. You still have to like her music so that it becomes eternal love without break up.
This review appears in the MusikExpress 11/2025.