Sabrina Carpenter is taking aim at emotionally immature partners in her new single Manchild, released June 5. The following day, the pop star unveiled a humorous and theatrical music video directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, in which she lampoons the absurdity of modern dating.
Set to lyrics critiquing emotional immaturity — “Stupid, or is it slow / Maybe it’s useless / But there’s a cuter word for it, I know: Manchild” — the video follows Carpenter through the American West as she attempts to escape a series of hopeless suitors. Whether she’s riding on the back of a jet ski barreling down a desert highway, crammed in a shopping cart hitched to a motorcycle, or balancing on a motorized recliner, each vignette shows her failing to get anywhere with men who can't seem to grow up.
The Grammy-nominated artist poked fun at the concept on Instagram, writing: “it’s exactly what i pictured in my head… no animals were harmed in the making but some men were.”
Manchild is Carpenter’s first new release since the deluxe edition of Short n’ Sweet, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She co-wrote the track with songwriter Amy Allen and producer Jack Antonoff. On Instagram, she said it was written after finishing the album: “this song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life.”
Carpenter is currently on a brief hiatus from her Short n’ Sweet world tour, which resumes in July with performances in London’s Hyde Park, followed by a North American leg.
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