Sabrina Carpenter Shares Her Conflicting Feelings on Men: ‘I Think They’re a Really Fun Species to Watch’

Sabrina Carpenter whitethorn person made an medium called Man’s Best Friend, but that doesn’t mean she has men each figured out.

In a caller Vogue Italia cover communicative published Tuesday (Sept. 23), the popular prima opened up astir her somewhat conflicting feelings toward the other sex. “I deliberation they’re a truly amusive taxon to watch,” Carpenter began. “In some a bully and atrocious way.”

The Grammy victor went connected to differentiate betwixt the affirmative and antagonistic experiences she’s had with men (some of whom she mightiness classify arsenic man-children). “I consciousness truly adored, inspired and loved by immoderate of them,” she told the work of men. “And truly confused, attacked and ridiculed by others.”

“When 1 of my friends announces she’s having a son, I rejoice for that child,” Carpenter added. “Because I cognize he’ll beryllium raised right.”

For much of the singer’s thoughts connected men, fans request lone perceive to Man’s Best Friend, which dropped successful August and debuted atop the Billboard 200. On Billboard Hot 100-topping pb azygous “Manchild,” she laments the incompetencies of the antheral partners she attracts, portion connected “Tears,” she caustically raves astir however blistery it is erstwhile a emotion involvement does the bare minimum.

Carpenter has besides antecedently opened up astir the heartbreak that inspired Man’s Best Friend. “I deliberation I came retired of a bittersweet concern a batch little bitter than I intended oregon expected to, with a small spot much of the, like, ‘You cognize what? There’s 2 radical involved, and this is portion of increasing up,'” she told Zane Lowe earlier successful September. “I don’t privation to beryllium enemies with radical that I loved … I consciousness similar it is 1 of those situations where, adjacent the medium starting with, ‘Oh, boy’ was benignant of an oculus rotation to yourself being like, ‘Here we spell again.'”

The speech with Vogue Italia comes arsenic Carpenter has a fig of breathtaking ventures coming up, with the Girl Meets World alum precocious announcing that she’ll soon beryllium making her Grand Ole Opry debut successful summation to hosting Saturday Night Live for the archetypal time. She volition besides header Coachella successful 2026.

Elsewhere successful the caller interview, Carpenter spoke astir however meaningful it’s been to her to person her fans by her broadside for each measurement of the mode connected her emergence to superstardom. “The astir important happening successful the past 10 years of my beingness has been the radical who person brought maine to wherever I americium now, the fans who person stuck by maine done each moment, the bully ones and the atrocious ones, with the songs they loved and didn’t love,” she reflected. “We’re r...