Sabrina Carpenter
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Sabrina Carpenter warned that the provocative lyrics on her upcoming album Man’s Best Friend might not be for prude-minded people in a preview from the singer’s interview with CBS Mornings.
“The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” Carpenter told Gayle King in a clip shared Thursday, one day before Man’s Best Friend’s arrival. “But I also think that even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.”
While previous hits like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” were more subtle with the innuendo, Man’s Best Friend’s previous singles and controversial album art suggest a bolder, more sexual LP, one that might make casual fans uncomfortable.
“Sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold, and they go, ‘I don’t want to sing this in front of other people.’ It’s like it’s almost too TMI,” Carpenter added.
“But I think about being at a concert with, you know, however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends, and you can go like, ‘Oh, we can all sigh of relief, like, ‘This is just fun.’ And that’s all it has to be.”
In her recent Rolling Stone cover story, Carpenter said of the people bemoaning her sultry stage shows, in particular her “Juno” positions, “It’s always so funny to me when people complain. They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this.’ But those are the songs that you’ve made popular. Clearly you love sex. You’re obsessed with it. It’s in my show. There’s so many more moments than the ‘Juno’ positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can’t control that. If you come to the show, you’ll [also] hear the ballads, you’ll hear the more introspective numbers. I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme. I’m not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes.”
From Rolling Stone US.
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