New Music Friday with Sabrina Carpenter: June 6, 2025
- Composition
"Manchild" is a "mix of bouncy '80s synth-pop and light country" with a "feel-good disco energy." Multiple outlets compared the song to Carpenter's 2024 single "Please Please Please", which is also produced by Antonoff.
The song is about a pathetic ex-boyfriend who Carpenter "comically lays into" and insults the intelligence of; mentioned fictionally by the singer as her former dating partners Griffin Gluck and Barry Keoghan.
Of the single "Manchild", Carpenter describes that she wrote "Manchild" on a random Tuesday with Allen and Antonoff not too long after finishing Short n' Sweet and it ended up being the best random Tuesday of her life. Not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to her something she can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life. It sounds like the song embodiment of a loving eye roll and it feels like a never ending road trip in the summer. Hence why she wanted to give it to her fans (Carpenters) now—so they can stick their head out the car window and scream it all summer long.
Manchild is out now!!!
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) June 6, 2025
It feels like the song embodiment of a loving eye roll and it sounds like a never ending road trip in the summer ! hence why i wanted to give it to you now- so you can stick your head out the car window and scream it all summer long!
thank you always… pic.twitter.com/KHSWf3k5Zy
- Release and promotion
"Manchild" released on digital music platforms on June 5, and will be released in 7-inch vinyl on the next day with its b-side "Inside of Your Head When You’ve Just Won an Argument with a Man". The music video for "Manchild" will also being released on June 6. Carpenter will also set to perform the song for the first time at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
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