Sabrina Carpenter is aware of the right way to lower a person right down to measurement with only a easy lyric … and we do imply “easy.” She doesn’t point out her Saltburn-starring ex, Barry Keoghan, by identify in her new tune, “Manchild,” however nobody on-line is even suggesting different choices. “Manchild,” launched June 5, is a catchy himbo takedown with intelligent lyrics they undoubtedly wouldn’t perceive. “Why so horny if that’s the case dumb?” she innocently asks. “And the way survive the earth so lengthy?” Oof, she even needed to converse his language: caveman. Within the tune’s music video, Carpenter is a hitchhiking hillbilly, securing rides from dumb males galore. One washes his face with gasoline; one other has her in a shopping-cart sidecar connected to his bike. The classic Southwestern setting is completely in step with her Quick n’ Candy–period movies like “Please Please Please,” which starred her then-boyfriend Keoghan because the dangerous boy who mob-wife Carpenter begs to behave proper.
The 2 dated for nearly precisely a 12 months — they had been first linked in December 2023 and in the end broke up in December 2024. On the time, a supply stated they had been each simply too “profession targeted” for a relationship. Keoghan’s subsequent career-focused transfer shall be using a yellow submarine — possibly the one car Carpenter doesn’t get on within the music video — as Ringo in Sam Mendes’s upcoming Beatles biopic.
“Thanks at all times and endlessly for listening,” Carpenter shared on the tune’s launch. “And thanks males for testing me!!” Nicely, it’s not like this man is passing any assessments on his personal …