{"id":29088,"date":"2025-10-19T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29088"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:21:34","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-nobodys-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29088","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter Performs &#8216;Manchild,&#8217; &#8216;Nobody&#8217;s Son&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The pop star plays the lead single and another track from her latest album, Man&#8217;s Best Friend<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTwo-time <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> musical guest Sabrina Carpenter\u2014also the host of Saturday\u2019s show\u2014performed two tracks from her seventh and latest album, <em>Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter opened with the lead single \u201cManchild,\u201d which she co-wrote with Bleachers\u2019 Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen. The pop star, who graced <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s July-August cover, quipped to us when asked if it\u2019s about anyone in particular: \u201cIt\u2019s about your dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter\u2019s second song was \u201cNobody\u2019s Son.\u201d The reggae-pop tune\u2014sixth on the track list\u2014was co-written by Carpenter, Allen and John Ryan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAbout <em>Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>, which hit the top spot on the US<em> Billboard<\/em> 200 shortly after its late August release, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Brittany Spanos wrote in a positive review: \u201cHer new songs are united in their grooviness as Carpenter\u2019s heartbreak and disappointment in her male options takes her on a thoroughly modern tour of what dating, embracing, and then flipping the script on the humiliation ritual that is being a woman who dates men.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter debuted on <em>SNL<\/em> in May 2024. During the season 49 finale, she performed her hit single \u201cEspresso,\u201d which she would later include on her album <em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>, as well as a medley of two songs from 2022\u2019s <em>Emails I Can\u2019t Send<\/em>. The singer-actress was last in Studio 8H in February during the 50th anniversary special, joining Paul Simon for a rendition of Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cHomeward Bound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter will be back in New York next week as she hits the home stretch of her <em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em> tour. After that, she\u2019ll be in Nashville, Toronto, and then Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pop star plays the lead single and another track from her latest album, Man&#8217;s Best Friend Two-time Saturday Night Live musical guest Sabrina Carpenter\u2014also the host of Saturday\u2019s show\u2014performed two tracks from her seventh and latest album, Man\u2019s Best Friend. Carpenter opened with the lead single \u201cManchild,\u201d which she co-wrote with Bleachers\u2019 Jack Antonoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5516,17216,17217,11319,5515,3446],"class_list":{"0":"post-29088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-carpenter","9":"tag-manchild","10":"tag-nobodys","11":"tag-performs","12":"tag-sabrina","13":"tag-son"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}