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Man’s Best Friend Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter spent the decade after her debut single, 2014’s “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying,” patiently finding her voice. Her persistence finally paid off in 2024, when the absurdly catchy singles “Espresso” and “Please, Please, Please” launched the former Disney Channel child star into a whole new realm of pop stardom. Her sixth album, August 2024’s  Short n’ Sweet , reintroduced the pint-sized singer as a sharp-witted diva with a honeyed voice and a fondness for campy innuendo—and earned Carpenter her first two Grammys (Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Solo Performance). Just over a year after  Short n’ Sweet ’s release, the biggest breakout pop star of 2024 fires off its follow-up,  Man’s Best Friend , which carries on her streak of concise 12-track records that draw from her love of ’70s disco and ooze snarky, self-deprecating charisma. “Oh, boy,” Carpenter chuckles to begin lead single “Manchild,” which taps ...

  Short n' Sweet (Deluxe) Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Sabrina Carpenter Some people kill their nemeses with kindness; Sabrina Carpenter, the breakout pop star of summer 2024, takes the opposite tack, shooting withering one-liners at loser exes via featherlight melodies, a wink and a smile. The former Disney Channel star began her music career at age 15 with her 2014 debut single “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying.” Now 25, the singer-songwriter is making the catchiest, funniest, and most honest music of her career at a moment when all the world’s watching. But on songs like “Please Please Please,” on which she begs her boyfriend not to embarrass her (again), she’s poking fun at herself, too. “A lot of what I really love about this album is the accountability,” she tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I will call myself out just as much as I will call out someone else.” It’s not because Carpenter’s “vertically challenged,” as she puts it, that she named her sixth album  Short n’ Sweet . “I thoug...

Short n' Sweet Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Sabrina Carpenter Please, please, please enjoy the year’s most anticipated pop album.

Espresso SONG ∙ POP ∙ 2024 Sabrina Carpenter

Please Please Please SONG ∙ POP ∙ 2024 Sabrina Carpenter

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