Sabrina Carpenter may have made an album called Man’s Best Friend, but that doesn’t mean she has men all figured out.
In a new Vogue Italia cover story published Tuesday (Sept. 23), the pop star opened up about her somewhat conflicting feelings toward the opposite sex. “I think they’re a really fun species to watch,” Carpenter began. “In both a good and bad way.”
The Grammy winner went on to differentiate between the positive and negative experiences she’s had with men (some of whom she might classify as man-children). “I feel really adored, inspired and loved by some of them,” she told the publication of men. “And really confused, attacked and ridiculed by others.”
“When one of my friends announces she’s having a son, I rejoice for that child,” Carpenter added. “Because I know he’ll be raised right.”
For more of the singer’s thoughts on men, fans need only listen to Man’s Best Friend, which dropped in August and debuted atop the Billboard 200. On Billboard Hot 100-topping lead single “Manchild,” she laments the incompetencies of the male partners she attracts, while on “Tears,” she caustically raves about how hot it is when a love interest does the bare minimum.
Carpenter has also previously opened up about the heartbreak that inspired Man’s Best Friend. “I think I came out of a sad situation a lot less bitter than I intended or expected to, with a little bit more of the, like, ‘You know what? There’s two people involved, and this is part of growing up,’” she told Zane Lowe earlier in September. “I don’t want to be enemies with people that I loved … I feel like it is one of those situations where, even the album starting with, ‘Oh, boy’ was sort of an eye roll to yourself being like, ‘Here we go again.’”
The conversation with Vogue Italia comes as Carpenter has a number of exciting ventures coming up, with the Girl Meets World alum recently announcing that she’ll soon be making her Grand Ole Opry debut in addition to hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time. She will also headline Coachella in 2026.
Elsewhere in the new interview, Carpenter spoke about how meaningful it’s been to her to have her fans by her side for every step of the way on her rise to superstardom. “The most important thing in the last 10 years of my life has been the people who have brought me to where I am now, the fans who have stuck by me through every moment, the good ones and the bad ones, with the songs they loved and didn’t love,” she reflected. “We’re really growing together.”
See Carpenter on the cover of Vogue Italia below.
