Almost exactly a year after she dropped her Grammy-winning, star-making album "Short n' Sweet," Sabrina Carpenter is preparing to release her follow-up, "Man's Best Friend."
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It'll be the seventh studio album for the homegrown pop singer, who was born in Bucks County and grew up in Montgomery County. Though she has teased the release through images that, in true Carpenter fashion, oscillate between cutesy (her tracklist announcement with a fluffy puppy) and raunchy (the album's cover art sparked considerable debate on social media and television), fans have heard only one single so far: "Manchild." So what can they expect from the rest of the album?
Here's what we know, based on Carpenter's own Instagram posts and interviews. While she's been somewhat tight-lipped about the new music, "Manchild" and the rest of the song titles indicate that her irreverent tone is still very much alive on "Man's Best Friend."
When is 'Man's Best Friend' out?
The album drops Friday, Aug. 29, on Apple Music and Spotify. Fans can preorder vinyl and CD copies on the singer's website. She's also got cassette tapes, for anyone still rocking a tape deck.
What's the tracklist?
"Man's Best Friend" features 12 songs, including Carpenter's chart-topping single "Manchild." She unveiled the complete tracklist on Instagram earlier this month:
1. "Manchild"
2. "Tears"
3. "My Man on Willpower"
4. "Sugar Talking"
5. "We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night"
6. "Nobody's Son"
7. "Never Getting Laid"
8. "When Did You Get Hot?"
9. "Go Go Juice"
10. "Don't Worry, I'll Make You Worry"
11. "House Tour"
12. "Goodbye"
Are there any bonus tracks?
Yes, but they're not easy to come by. Carpenter is making the bonus track "Such a Funny Way" available exclusively on a red vinyl release featuring her third alternate cover. (After the album's original art, featuring the singer on all fours, sparked controversy, Carpenter rolled out additional images, the first of which she joked was "approved by God.")
What else can fans expect?
Carpenter hasn't said much about the album's style or inspiration, telling Rolling Stone in June that she was "living in the glory of no one hearing it or knowing about it, and so I can not care." (She also declined to say if she had a particular ex in mind when she wrote "Manchild," joking "it's about your dad.") But her producer and frequent writing partner Jack Antonoff told the magazine that the album veered "many times" into "a genre we didn't expect." He also called it "some of the most honest work I've ever heard."
"There’s something really celebratory about it, but most of the lyrical content is about disappointment in relationships and all the different shapes it takes," he said. "I think it’s a celebration of those who let you down."
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