Sabrina Carpenter heard we needed another song of the summer, and she’s here to deliver. After the global success of her megahit, “Espresso,” which defined 2024 beyond the scorching temps, the petite pop star is back for more with her new single, “Manchild.”
She teased the track with a blurred lo-fi clip of her hitchhiking on the side of a highway in sky-high heels and daisy dukes shorter than my last situationship. Of course, Sab’s fans and friends couldn’t contain themselves, responding with pure excitement.
“Thank god,” her stylist, Jared Ellner, wrote, while her Short n’ Sweet tourmate and Cosmo UK cover girl Rachel Chinouriri added, “I’m omw to pick you up babes, forget them x.”
“This one’s about you!!” she wrote on social media upon the single’s official announcement. Per billboards plastered across the I-69 highway (lol, touché, Sabrina), some of its lyrics might include “Amen / Hey men” and “I swear they choose me, I’m not choosing them.”
Fans speculate that these lines could be about her ex, Barry Keoghan, though nothing has been confirmed. “Sabrina’s not holding back and if ‘Manchild’ is half as sharp as that caption, we’re in for a bold, catchy callout,” one fan wrote on social media while another chimed in, “I just know she’s gonna cook Barry so hard.”
Sabrina and Barry kept their relationship relatively lowkey (ya know, aside from the “Please Please Please” music video) as they dated for nearly a year before reportedly breaking things off last December.
The song, which is rumored to be the lead single to her seventh album, drops on Thursday, June 5, at 8 p.m. EST. It comes just in time for her headlining festival run this summer at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Primavera Sound.
“Manchild” also follows Sabrina’s sixth record, Short n’ Sweet, which won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album earlier this year. And, for the record: it’s already gone triple platinum in my house, though it’s not even out yet.
