Blogocentric Formulations

Manchild

DAY 23

"Manchild"
by Sabrina Carpenter

I listened to a lot of Sabrina Carpenter this past year, and honestly the only difficult thing about including her on my playlist this year was deciding what song to include. I still listened to her previous album (2024's Short 'n Sweet) a lot this year, and in a lot of ways I think it's a better album than 2025's Man's Best Friend, but the latter just came out this past year and did have some really good songs on it, so I figured I'd take something from that one.

I almost went with "House Tour," "Tears," or even "A Nonsense Christmas" from her 2024 holiday special, because I really like her more risque songs (I almost featured "Bed Chem" last year instead of "Taste"), but this was the song I picked because it really grew on me as the year went on. I started out not caring for it very much when it debuted as the first single off her latest album, but I've really come around to it after multiple subsequent listens.