Pop star Sabrina Carpenter has recently released her new album Man’s Best Friend. She released the official music video for one of her songs, titled TEARS. She is once again challenging expectations and showing the door to patriarchy with her deeply immersive lyrics on men, love and loyalty.

Before we delve into TEARS, it is important to speak about her chart-topping single Manchild. She kicked her new era with the track to set the tone for her slightly wild album. The tone she set is sardonic, sultry yet self-aware. That energy is dialed up further on the newly released single TEARS. For starters, it is a theatrical, synth-heavy track accompanied by a music video. The video is equal parts gothic soap opera and twisted fairytale. Colman Domingo joins her to participate in the fun, but he does it in full drag.

In the video, Carpenter goes to a countryside mansion after her character survives a car crash. What unfolds is a campy fever dream. Oh and in the end, she kills her resurrected lover with a stiletto. “Someone has to die in every video,” she quips. Wild indeed!

The lyrics take the cake. Sabrina’s song creates erotic imageries but doesn’t ask the audience to ponder over them. A part of the lyrics go, “I get wet at the thought of you being a responsible guy.”

The album doesn’t shy away from explicit content either. Ten of the twelve songs carry a parental advisory label. The track titles are Never Getting Laid, Don’t Worry I’ll Make You Worry, and Go Go Juice. While the visuals and language may raise eyebrows, but the most part of it is filled with humour and heart.