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- Summary: The latest full-length release from pop singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter was co-produced with Jack Antonoff.
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- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 2, 2025No other star of the screen or songland is nearly so dedicated to getting laughs out of the carnage in the battle of the sexes, as she does to an even further degree in her very winning new album, “Man’s Best Friend.”
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Aug 29, 2025Carpenter continues her aversion to one sound, skillfully collecting the gems of different eras and genres and shining them up for 2025.
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Sep 4, 2025If I’m dinging anything, it’s the temptation to coat every chorus in frosting, but I guess that’s also what makes Man’s Best Friend so much fun to listen to. Even when Carpenter over-ices the cake, the bite underneath is her own – funny, flirty, occasionally feral, and unmistakably Sabrina.
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Sep 2, 2025Man’s Best Friend is so committed to the part that it begins to approach self-parody—“I bet your light rod’s, like, bigger than Zeus’” is not Carpenter’s best work—but mostly it’s sublime.
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Sep 2, 2025Song for song — line for line, really — “Man’s Best Friend” isn’t quite as sharp as “Short n’ Sweet,” which offered the rare thrill of a young artist coming into her own on her sixth studio album. .... When she’s on, though, she’s on.
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Aug 29, 2025Man’s Best Friend sees Carpenter and main collaborators Jack Antonoff and John Ryan continuing in a similar vein as Short n’ Sweet, paying homage to the past with the multi-culti, pan-genre pastiche of lead single “Manchild” bumping up against the Paula Abdul-era dance-pop of “House Tour” and the yacht-rock-meets-R&B standout “Never Getting Laid,” which is filled with smooth electric piano and some very ’70s-coded mono synth lines.
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Sep 2, 2025On this slight and frail but occasionally amusing new album, though, her character is still in development — what felt like hard-earned idiosyncrasy on her last album feels calculatedly careless here. .... Has all the hallmarks of a rush job: lyrical conceits that aren’t fully fleshed out, vocals that get crammed into prefab melodies, a repetition of themes that suggests a single idea viewed from multiple angles.