{"id":185557,"date":"2025-09-11T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/11\/how-do-we-grade-the-rollout-for-sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-2025s-most-fascinating-pop-album-era-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:18:32","slug":"how-do-we-grade-the-rollout-for-sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-2025s-most-fascinating-pop-album-era-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/11\/how-do-we-grade-the-rollout-for-sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-2025s-most-fascinating-pop-album-era-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Grade the Rollout for Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u2018Man\u2019s Best Friend,\u2019 2025\u2019s Most Fascinating Pop Album\u00a0Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIt\u2019s been two months since Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> first announced Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>, the follow-up album to her blockbuster breakthrough set Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>, dropping almost exactly a year after that four-week Billboard 200<\/a> No. 1 LP. Fans wondered if she was maybe returning too soon \u2014 especially since the hit singles and sold-out arena tour for Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em> took her well into 2025 \u2014 and that hesitance could be felt in lukewarm early chatter surrounding this album\u2019s initial release. But in the week-plus since, the tide has already begun to turn on the album, and now it seems like Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> might just be another W in Carpenter\u2019s now-two-year-long pop winning streak.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith this Rollout Report Card episode, we look at everything surrounding Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> \u2014 both in the two months leading up to it, and now the two weeks since its unveiling \u2014 and how an album that many seemed ready to declare premature is now revealing itself to perhaps be its predecessor\u2019s equal, both commercially and artistically. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs we hand out our letter grades for all the most important factors in Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em> rollout \u2014 from the live performances and music videos to the new songs and overall \u201calbuminess\u201d \u2014\u00a0we also answer the most important questions surrounding the new era: What makes this album such a consensus grower? Was the album cover worthy of the discourse it provoked? Should \u201cTears\u201d (or another second single) have come out before the full album? Why were the VMAs seemingly intent on hyping her performance as little as possible? Did Sabrina Carpenter really do a Nardwuar interview? And perhaps most importantly of all: What else can she do before year\u2019s end to really shore up her case for being the Greatest Pop Star of 2025? <\/p>\n