Sabrina Carpenter announces new album Man’s Best Friend

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1 hour ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Very surprised at this. I knew she would follow up her last album quite quickly but in 2 years. Exactly one year later? Far too soon. Her album's still doing great numbers and she literally just re-released it with extra tracks and a new single, that should be enough to tide people over for longer and she's still got more tour dates to wrap up at the end of the year. If Manchild is the lead to an already completed album, why wasn't it marketed as such from day one? I just feel she's terribly overexposed and oversaturated right now and putting out a new album so soon might do more harm than good. Especially as it seems this album's going to sound the exact same as the last one and could be called out for being too repetitive, not evolving and just being leftover rejects from Short n Sweet. I don't buy the whole "Inspiration to make a new album just came to me." More like "My label realised how I'm a hit machine right now and ordered me to work on a new album immediately."

But I think people are going overboard saying this might snatch AOTY. The last album couldn't, so why would this? And let's face it, Sabrina just makes fun basic pop music. That's not AOTY material, let's be real. We don't know if it's any good yet, so you can't make these pronouncements.

i feel like taylor swift redefined the definition of 'overexposed' and now as long as you're not doing a massive global world tour while simultaneously releasing 2 albums a year you're actually not that overexposed, but maybe it's just me 

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14 minutes ago, salty like sodium said:

I get that but obviously Sabrina touring with TS means they spent a lot of time together and she probably learned a lot from her. The last time a major artist really released albums on a yearly basis was Ariana Grande I think, and that ended a while ago. Taylor Swift's really the only one who's done it so consistently in the 2020s imo. Lana Del Rey, though less mainstream, also does release quite fast sometimes.

Hmm that's true. Now that I think about it Sabrina does have Taylor's blessing and of course the fans have been supporting her because it's very close to what she does. When I started listening to Short N Sweet it reminded me of Taylor's voice for a bit. There's obviously an influence there and  Swifties' support is quite strong. 

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God forbid a girl is horny

[Bronco 10,150]

5 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

i feel like taylor swift redefined the definition of 'overexposed' and now as long as you're not doing a massive global world tour while simultaneously releasing 2 albums a year you're actually not that overexposed, but maybe it's just me 

Honestly, overexposure has always been a bit of a myth in music circles and pop culture circles more generally. 

Like I personally don't feel like there's any pure example of an artist who failed due to overexposure. 

I always think of Bryan Adams' Everything I Do's record breaking chart run in the UK of 16 consecutive weeks. A Europe-wide chart consecutive run of 18 weeks and in the US managed 7 consecutive weeks on the BB100 and 17 consecutive weeks on the pure sales chart. 
Everyone from that era jokes about it being unavoidable - but it had no negative effect on the song or Bryan Adams and continues to be popular. 

Rihanna went on a major run of albums from 2006-2012. Never took a year off. Every album was a success. People still beg her for more. 

The only people who suffer from what people, imo, brand as overexposure tend to be artists that get hit by scandal. I feel like overexposure makes people more susceptible to a PR collapse, but without one they don't really get any negativity from being so big. 
Jennifer Lawrence is a prime example, was massive and unavoidable until the Fappening. And then the second images leaked of her, part of her career stumbled and then when she rightly critisiced people's behaviour around the leaks she was attacked even further. It wasn't her success that brought her down, it just expanded the reach of negative press. 

[Teletubby 147,013]

Antonoff on 7 tracks

Credits
1. Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 2 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 3 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Ian Kirkpatrick & Amy Allen)
Track 4 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 5 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Ian Kirkpatrick & Amy Allen)
Track 6 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 7 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 8 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 9 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 10 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 11 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 12 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)

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2 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

Antonoff on 7 tracks

Credits
1. Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 2 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 3 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Ian Kirkpatrick & Amy Allen)
Track 4 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 5 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Ian Kirkpatrick & Amy Allen)
Track 6 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 7 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 8 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 9 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 10 (Sabrina Carpenter, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta & Amy Allen)
Track 11 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)
Track 12 (Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff & Amy Allen)

How do we know that?

[whoresup 2,558]

Right at the end of the Grammy eligibility period ffs

[InTheCloset 19,073]

On 6/12/2025 at 1:24 AM, River said:

That's why I think Bey shouldn't have won for CC, she didn't deserve it, she was only entitled for it, there were better albums on the list

Her husband literally begged (and probably paid) for it. What do you mean she wasnt entitled to it after this?

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3 minutes ago, InTheCloset said:

Her husband literally begged (and probably paid) for it. What do you mean she wasnt entitled to it after this?

i said what i said 

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I don't get it with Sabrina

[InTheCloset 19,073]

1 hour ago, River said:

i said what i said 

[Anderson123 38,030]

On 6/12/2025 at 2:05 AM, Bronco said:

Honestly, overexposure has always been a bit of a myth in music circles and pop culture circles more generally. 

Like I personally don't feel like there's any pure example of an artist who failed due to overexposure. 

I always think of Bryan Adams' Everything I Do's record breaking chart run in the UK of 16 consecutive weeks. A Europe-wide chart consecutive run of 18 weeks and in the US managed 7 consecutive weeks on the BB100 and 17 consecutive weeks on the pure sales chart. 
Everyone from that era jokes about it being unavoidable - but it had no negative effect on the song or Bryan Adams and continues to be popular. 

Rihanna went on a major run of albums from 2006-2012. Never took a year off. Every album was a success. People still beg her for more. 

The only people who suffer from what people, imo, brand as overexposure tend to be artists that get hit by scandal. I feel like overexposure makes people more susceptible to a PR collapse, but without one they don't really get any negativity from being so big. 
Jennifer Lawrence is a prime example, was massive and unavoidable until the Fappening. And then the second images leaked of her, part of her career stumbled and then when she rightly critisiced people's behaviour around the leaks she was attacked even further. It wasn't her success that brought her down, it just expanded the reach of negative press. 

This also reminds me of Britney releasing Baby, Oops and Britney all a year from each other from 1999 til 2001 and remains as some of her best times. 

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On 6/11/2025 at 4:33 PM, lastpopicon said:

That's a fair point but we know gaga deserves it for mayhem, it wouldn't be a handout IMO.

It's just really unfortunate that she's up against Kendrick this year and now potentially more competition from pop.

Mayhem is a far better than album than GNX. It's sad people default to assuming that Kendrick is going to win because the white-guilt voters need to atone for previous snubs... as if Gaga wasn't snubbed 3 times already lol.

The CEO of the Recording Academy made an entire diversity push not because they actually care about diversity, but because he needed enough votes to push Beyonce to the top for AOTY otherwise the Grammys would continue to lose relevancy and be criticized every year. University students were literally invited to join the Academy... like it's truly a desperate joke. They snubbed Bey again & again because she doesn't write her own material-- plain and simple. They snubbed Kendrick before because he also has a million writers on his album. 

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Feel like all I've seen online is hatred for this album cover so don't know if she's off to a great start...

[monstertoronto 9,688]

Now that Manchild has already debuted at number 1, I think we can expect Sabrina to have another monster era. And the more that I think about it, I think this album cover was deliberately meant to somewhat push away her youngest fanbase of young girls because she’s prob trying to age up her fanbase. I mean she’s always had this flirty sexual double entendre level to her music and vibe but she was deesssd in cash kid friendly clothes amd colors, kind of like Teenare Dream era Katy. Maybe Sabrina was sick of all the outraged parents who brought their kids to her show and thought it was too sexual so she releases a new cover fhats very clearly more adult.