The singer celebrated the release with fans during a Spotify-hosted party at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hours before releasing her album, Sabrina Carpenter gave listeners a fair warning: “The album is not for any pearl clutchers.” On Friday, the pop star officially released her highly anticipated, not-for-prudes seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend.
The 12-track album opens with the LP’s first-released single “Manchild,” and concludes with the song, “Goodbye.” The music video for the record’s second offering, “Tears,” also dropped at midnight. The album features writing and production credits for Carpenter, Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff, and John Ryan across all of the tracks.
Carpenter caused a hubbub after she shared the album art of her kneeling next to a figure in a suit who’s grabbing her hair. She’s since released several other versions of the art for vinyl variants and cassettes. “Here is a new alternate cover approved by God,” she joked about one.
The singer-songwriter celebrated the album’s release with a Spotify-hosted fan event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where she answered questions about the album before the Audrey Hepburn film Sabrina played.
Ahead of the album’s release, Carpenter posed for the cover of Rolling Stone and spoke at length about her journey to the new record. Antonoff also told Rolling Stone that he thinks the album is “some of the most honest work I’ve ever heard.”
The album, Carpenter explained, “wasn’t written from a place of ‘How do I one-up myself?’ or ‘How do I re-create something else?’” About her previous record, Carpenter said: “Short n’ Sweet was this magical gift; it fed me, and it fed a lot of other people in the world. It felt true to me, and it felt authentic to a lot of other people. It’s rare that those line up ever, let alone more than once. It unlocked my brain to know myself more and more.”