Sabrina Carpenter Finds It 'So Funny' When People 'Complain' About Her Risqué Performances: 'Clearly “You” Love Sex'

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  • Sabrina Carpenter was nan taxable of Rolling Stone's June screen story, and said astir her erstwhile Grammy-winning album, Short n' Sweet arsenic good arsenic its consequent tour
  • During nan conversation, she acknowledged really a fewer of her songs veer towards much sexually definitive themes
  • But nan vocalist confirms she's going to support that up, contempt ongoing criticism

Sabrina Carpenter isn't looking to get into nan "Good Graces" of nan critics who don't for illustration her much intersexual songs.

The Grammy-winning musician precocious spoke with Rolling Stone for their June screen story, and chatted astir nan guidance to her deed song, “Juno,” and her cheeky performances of it during her Short n’ Sweet tour.

The opus is notably named aft nan 2007 teen gestation movie of nan aforesaid name, and successful nan song, she not-so subtly sings, “I mightiness fto you make maine Juno.” But she takes that lyric moreover further connected her tour, and she acts retired different activity positions connected each extremity of her tour, while singing, “Wanna effort retired immoderate freaky positions? Have you ever tried this one?”

But nan 26-year-old musician’s much definitive reenactments don’t extremity there. During her song, “Bed Chem,” she ends nan capacity connected a heart-shaped furniture down a curtain and staged activity pinch a antheral dancer.

Sabrina Carpenter connected "Rolling Stone".

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While Carpenter has fans eager to spot what nan adjacent circuit extremity will bring, others are person shamed her for her performance. But Carpenter told Rolling Stone, “It’s ever truthful funny to maine erstwhile group complain.”

“They’re like, ‘All she does is singing astir this,’” she explained. “But those are nan songs that you’ve made popular. Clearly you emotion sex. You’re obsessed pinch it. It’s successful my show.” 

Carpenter added, “There’s truthful galore much moments than nan ‘Juno’ positions, but those are nan ones you station each nighttime and remark on.” 

“I can’t power that. If you travel to nan show, you’ll [also] perceive nan ballads, you’ll perceive nan much introspective numbers,” she noted. 

Sabrina Carpenter for Rolling Stone.

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“I find irony and joke successful each of that, because it seems to beryllium a recurring theme,” she added. “I’m not upset astir it, different than I consciousness huffy unit to beryllium funny sometimes.”

She besides explained really nan disapproval aligns pinch what she finds to beryllium “a clip wherever women person been picked isolated more, and scrutinized successful each capacity," adding "I’m talking astir each female creator that is making creation correct now.”

“It’s thing that keeps coming back,” she added. “We conscionable person to turn thicker skin, but they don’t person to study really to unopen their mouths.”

Sabrina Carpenter connected "Rolling Stone" cover.

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One time earlier nan screen communicative went live, Carpenter amazed euphony fans by announcing nan merchandise of her seventh workplace album, Man's Best Friend, connected Wednesday, June 11. The medium drops connected Aug. 29, 2025.

“I’m surviving successful nan glory of nary 1 proceeding it aliases knowing astir it, and truthful I tin not care,” Carpenter said of her forthcoming album. “I tin not springiness a f--- astir it, because I’m conscionable truthful excited.”

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The Grammy victor besides shared an image of nan medium screen alongside nan caption, which showcases her kneeling successful a achromatic mini dress and achromatic heels arsenic a man trim retired of nan photograph grabs her blond hair.

Ahead of announcing her forthcoming LP, Carpenter released its lead azygous "Manchild" connected Thursday, June 5.