Sabrina Carpenter isn’t holding again on her ideas about incompetent males. The Grammy Award-winning singer simply launched her new track “Manchild” and he or she’s fairly simple about what she thinks about her ex.
Sabrina debuted the track on June 5, 2025, and revealed that she wrote the track with frequent collaborators Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen. She wrote in an Instagram caption, “Not solely was it so enjoyable to write down, however this track turned to me one thing I can look again on that may rating the psychological montage to the very complicated and enjoyable younger grownup years of life.”
She continued, “It sounds just like the track embodiment of a loving eye roll and it looks like a by no means ending highway journey in the summertime ! therefore why i needed to present it to you now- so you’ll be able to stick your head out the automotive window and scream all of it summer time lengthy!”
Who’s Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” about?
After she launched the teaser for “Manchild” on social media, many individuals speculated that “Manchild” was about her ex-boyfriend Barry Keoghan. The Saltburn actor and the singer dated for almost a 12 months from December 2023 to December 2024. So when Sabrina posted, “This one’s about YOU!” on her socials, individuals began to fan the flames.
Sabrina begins off the track with a reasonably punch, singing “You mentioned your cellphone was damaged, simply forgot to cost it / Entire outfit you’re carrying, God, I hope it’s ironic.” Whereas Barry is a style ambassador for Burberry, there are some questionable outfits that he has donned (ahem, the Met Gala). Sabrina then goes on a savage tirade about calling her former lover a “manchild” and telling him that he doesn’t have a mind.
The enjoyable comes within the bridge the place she reveals, “Oh, I like my boys taking part in arduous to get / And I like my males all incompetent.” Is that this a dig at ALL of her exes? Possibly. She did put it in her thanks notes, “Thanks males for testing me!”
Sabrina Carpenter “Manchild” Lyrics
[Intro]
Oh, boy
[Verse 1]
You mentioned your cellphone was damaged, simply forgot to cost it
Entire outfit you’re carrying, God, I hope it’s ironic
Did you simply say you’re completed? Didn’t know we began
It’s all simply so acquainted, child, what do you name it?
[Pre-Chorus]
Silly
Or is it gradual?
Possibly it’s ineffective
However there’s a cuter phrase for it, I do know
[Chorus]
Man-child
Why you all the time come a-running to me?
Fuck my life
Received’t you let an harmless lady be?
By no means heard of self-care
Half your mind simply ain’t there
Man-child
Why you all the time come a-running, taking all my loving from me?
[Verse 2]
Why so horny in that case dumb?
And the way survive the Earth so lengthy?
If I’m not there, it gained’t get carried out
I select responsible your mother
[Chorus]
Man-child
Why you all the time come a-running to me?
Fuck my life
Received’t you let an harmless lady be?
By no means heard of self-care
Half your mind simply ain’t there
Man-child
Why you all the time come a-running, taking all my loving from me?
[Bridge]
Oh, I like my boys taking part in arduous to get
And I like my males all incompetent
And I swear they select me, I’m not selecting them
Amen, hey, males
Oh, I like my boys taking part in arduous to get (Play arduous to get)
And I like my males all incompetent (Incompetent)
And I swear they select me, I’m not selecting them (Not selecting them)
Amen (Amen), hey, males (Hey, males)
[Chorus]
Man-child
Why you all the time come a-running to me? (All the time come a-running to me)
Fuck my life
Received’t you let an harmless lady be? (Amen)
