Sabrina Carpenter’s new breakup album, “Man’s Best Friend” was released August 29th. Fans around the world were waiting with anticipation, as after the somewhat controversial album cover was announced on Instagram in early July, just a few weeks prior.
The actual songs on the album explore her life after a rough relationship, as well as her perspective on relationships and dating. Man’s best friend is not a diss on Carpenter’s past relationship that ended last December, but a sincere breakup album very reminiscent of Barry Keoghan.
Before listening to the album, I had already heard a decent amount of tracks by her, but never a full album, so this was somewhat of a different experience. It kind of felt like hearing just part of a story in bits and pieces, but then finally seeing the big picture.
After listening, I also played her albums “Short N’ Sweet” and “Emails I Can’t Send” and the difference in tone and just how the albums sounded in general just made it feel like it was written by an entirely different artist. Emails I Can’t Send was a lot more…quiet and mellow. It had a slower pace, but it did have enough upbeat moments to where it was still a pop album. There were a few songs that had a kind of melancholy tone to them, but it was still a good album. It’s really good for an artist to be able to branch out and change their sound depending on the tone of the album. But, Short N’ Sweet is still the best album.
Man’s Best Friend was really upbeat and had a lot of energetic tracks on it. It sounded like something that you would play at a high school prom. I enjoyed most of the songs on the album, particularly “Tears” , the second track on the album, which I frankly believe is the best song.
My least favorite song was “We almost broke up again last night”. It was just a little too slow, and it honestly sounded like parts of the song had an acoustic folk backing track, which doesn’t really work all that well for a pop song. There were a few others that weren’t amazing in my opinion, but they were all good. Overall, this album is definitely one I think all people who enjoy modern pop music should listen to.
