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Latest News: Sabrina Carpenter Releases New Album Man’s Best Friend
Pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter is already back with new music. The Grammy winner released her highly anticipated seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, on August 29. The 12-track record features her No. 1 hit “Manchild,” as well as the newly released dance pop single “Tears.”
Man’s Best Friend follows the success of Carpenter’s 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, which won two Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance for the hit song “Espresso.”
In a recent interview with CBS Mornings, she revealed her new album is “not for any pearl clutchers.” The 26-year-old’s music is well-known for its sexual themes and innuendos, and her latest effort is no exception, containing a number of songs with raunchy, yet playful, lyrics.
“Sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold or they go, ‘I don’t want to sing this in front of other people.’ It’s like it’s almost too TMI,” Carpenter said. “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, and that’s all it has to be.”
Who Is Sabrina Carpenter?
Pop singer and actor Sabrina Carpenter is known for the songs “Please Please Please” and “Espresso.” The Pennsylvania native signed her first record deal and landed her acting break in 2014 as a young teenager. She tackled the lead role in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World for three seasons and steadily booked movie parts. Since signing with Island Records in 2021, Carpenter has become a pop music sensation with the songs “Feather” and “Nonsense,” among others. She released her sixth studio album, the Grammy-nominated Short n’ Sweet, in August 2024.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Sabrina AnnLynn Carpenter
BORN: May 11, 1999
BIRTHPLACE: Quakertown, Pennsylvania
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus
Where Is Sabrina Carpenter From?
Sabrina AnnLynn Carpenter was born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1999, to Elizabeth and David Carpenter. Sabrina has three older sisters: Sarah, Shannon, and half- sister Cayla, who is David’s daughter from a previous relationship.
Both Sabrina’s parents have artistic backgrounds. Her mother is a former dancer, while her father’s musical background includes playing in a garage band. Elizabeth is now a chiropractor who owns her own practice. And, Sabrina’s paternal aunt, Nancy Cartwright, voices Bart Simpson on The Simpsons.
Following in her family’s creative footsteps, Sabrina began dancing at age 2 and eventually was taking dance classes six days a week. By age 6, she started taking vocal lessons and later told Rolling Stone singing was her “first love.” She grew up listening to Stevie Nicks, Dolly Parton, Carole King, and Patsy Cline. A particular inspiration for her was Christina Aguilera. “I was 11 years old, and you couldn’t get her name out of my mouth,” Sabrina told Paper magazine. “She’s very special to me. Those songs raised me.”
In 2009, around age 10, Sabrina started uploading videos of herself singing to YouTube. She sang covers of songs by Aguilera, Taylor Swift, Adele, Ozzy Osbourne, and Guns N’ Roses. David even built his daughter a purple recording studio in the family’s basement.
As a homeschooled student, young Sabrina was able to balance her self-paced curriculum with her hobbies. Another interest of hers was acting, and she booked a handful of roles before moving to Los Angeles around age 13 to begin her acting career in earnest.
“I have dreams and goals, and I will say I’m a little bit of a freak manifester sometimes, which is a blessing and a curse depending on how you look at it,” she later told Paper. “I always knew deep down that this was something I would do with my life, and I didn’t ever really doubt that.”
Movies and TV Shows
Carpenter began her professional career as an actor when she was 11 years old. She booked her first gig in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011. Following the appearance, Carpenter landed more roles, including in the 2012 TV movie Gulliver Quinn. Carpenter was cast as a series regular on The Goodwin Games, but the sitcom was canceled after a short first season in 2013. That same year, she appeared in an episode of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and began a voiceover role in the animated kids’ show Sofia the First.
Her big break came in 2014 with the premiere of Girl Meets World, a reboot of Disney Channel’s Boy Meets World. Carpenter played Maya Hart in the show’s lead role for three seasons.
“That was my world, and that was my everything, and I was so proud to be a part of it and everything that it stood for,” Carpenter told Teen Vogue. “I definitely would have done some things different had I been doing it now, but I think the beauty of the show was that we really were at the age that we were playing, and we were coming into ourselves as we were playing characters that were coming into themselves.”
Carpenter has also acted in a number of popular movies, such as The Hate U Give (2018), Netflix’s Tall Girl (2019) and Tall Girl 2 (2022), The Short History of the Long Road (2019), Work It (2020), and Emergency (2022).
In March 2020, Carpenter brought her acting and singing talents to Broadway in a debut role as Cady Heron in the musical Mean Girls. However, the show was shut down after Carpenter gave just two performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unable to restart amid the health crisis, the musical officially closed in January 2021.
Music Career: Songs and Albums
Carpenter’s professional music career began around the same time as her first acting role. In 2009, she entered a singing contest called The Next Miley Cyrus Project and finished in third place. Then, at 12 years old, she signed her first record deal with Disney Music Group’s Hollywood Records.
Carpenter released four albums with the label: Eyes Wide Open (2015), EVOLution (2016), Singular Act I (2018), and Singular Act II (2019). “For the people who love those early records and listen to them, I love you for that,” she told Variety. “But I personally feel a sense of separation from them, largely due to the shift in who I am as a person and as an artist, pre-pandemic and post-pandemic.”
That shift also materialized in a label change. After Carpenter ended her contract with Hollywood Records, she signed with Island Records in January 2021. The move immediately paid dividends.
In February 2021, she made it into the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time with the song “Skin,” which peaked at No. 48. The song is an alleged response track to fellow pop singer Olivia Rodrigo’s hit “drivers license.” Both songs are rumored to be about a love triangle between the two pop stars and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series actor Joshua Bassett, who also released a song reportedly about the situation called “Lie Lie Lie.” Rodrigo and Bassett dated in 2020, before he moved on with Carpenter in 2021. Carpenter’s song “because i liked a boy” is also allegedly about the situation with Rodrigo and Bassett.
Carpenter released her fifth studio album, emails i can’t send, in July 2022. The title track was inspired by an affair her father had. “I am a daddy’s girl,” the singer told Variety. “But my family has just gone through so much that now we’re all in a healing stage… ‘Emails’ was hard to put out, but it marked the beginning of a really freeing and artistic time for me.”
Another notable song from the album was “Nonsense,” a hit that has become a fan favorite with improvised, often seductive outro lyrics at her live shows. “I love playing with the crowd live, and sometimes you want to say things in order to take it to a really shocking place,” she told W. “But sometimes I’m very PG with it. It really just depends on the city, honestly.”
The album’s deluxe edition, emails i can’t send fwd, arrived in 2023 with four bonus tracks, including “Feather.” The song peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, as its music video inspired outrage from the Roman Catholic church that November. Carpenter filmed the video inside and outside of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn, New York, and at one point, she dances near the church’s altar in a provocative outfit. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn announced it was “appalled” by the video and that church’s pastor, Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, had been stripped of his administrative duties.
During her performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2024, Carpenter seemingly voiced her thoughts on the controversy by wearing a “Jesus Was a Carpenter” shirt. Her set included the debut of her viral hit “Espresso,” which became a contender for song of the summer and rose as high as No. 3 on the Hot 100. The song’s success surprised Carpenter, who figured coffee is most relevant in the fall. “I really didn’t know if it would connect, but the sentiment and the sound of the song and the confidence that it kind of just carries along with it was something that I really believed in,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “So I had literally no idea that anyone would like it, but I liked it.”
“Espresso” marked the first single from Carpenter’s sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet. Another single “Please Please Please” became the singer’s first Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper after its June 2024 release. The popularity of both songs were promising signs for Short n’ Sweet, and when the album arrived in late August 2024, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. A month later, it became platinum-certified, having sold the equivalent of 1 million copies.
Short n’ Sweet later earned Carpenter several 2025 Grammy Award nominations. The singer received nods in all four major categories with her new record competing for Album of the Year, “Please Please Please” eligible in Song of the Year, “Espresso” in Record of the Year title, and Carpenter, herself, nominated for Best New Artist. She did not win any of those categories, but did receive her first two Grammys for Best Pop Solo Performance for “Espresso” and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Carpenter released her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, in August 2025. The record features the single “Manchild,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Relationships
Carpenter has been in several romantic relationships over the years. Most recently, she was involved with Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan. The pair were rumored to be dating in December 2023 and appeared together at award show after-parties early the next year as well as the Met Gala in May 2024.
Keoghan then starred in Carpenter’s music video for her song “Please Please Please.” The singer told Variety: “I don’t want to sound biased, but I think he’s one of the best actors of this generation. So getting to see him on the screen with my song as the soundtrack made the video better and all the more special.”
After months of speculation that Carpenter and Keoghan were no longer together, with People reporting in August 2024 the couple are “on and off,” sources confirmed in December that the two have ended their relationship after a year of dating.
Carpenter has previously been linked to actors Bradley Steven Perry, Griffin Gluck, and Joshua Bassett, as well as musician Shawn Mendes.
2017 Lawsuit
In 2017, then-18-year-old Carpenter was sued by two of her former music managers, Stan Rogow and Elliot Lurie, for breach of contract after they were fired in August 2014. The case was ultimately dismissed, with Carpenter releasing a cheeky single titled “Sue Me” soon after.
Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Carpenter has amassed a fortune of approximately $12 million. While other kids were still in school, Carpenter began earning money from her childhood acting and singing gigs. More recently, the star has become a Prada Beauty ambassador and struck up a partnership with Dunkin’. The coffee chain offered Sabrina’s Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso for a limited time in honor of the “Espresso” singer.
Quotes
- My advice to my younger self is: don’t take other people’s opinions more seriously than your own. That is huge advice for any teenager. I wish I knew that a few years ago. It’s very easy to be young and influenced, and it’s very easy to trust the people that you think are trying to help you. But in reality, they are different people, and their opinions don’t always matter.
- I feel a lot freer and more excited about what I’m making now because I’ve realized that genre isn’t necessarily the most important thing. It’s about honesty and authenticity and whatever you gravitate towards. There were a lot of genres in my last album, and I like to think I’ll continue that throughout writing music.
- Not to be the person that brings up their astrology, but I’m a Taurus, and I think that might have something to do with the fact that I’ve always just been very driven. Some people like to call it stubborn. I like to say driven.
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