Sabrina Carpenter certainly holds her position as one of the most exciting music video artists of her generation.
While past clips of her songs Taste and Please Please have seen her pay homage to death, become her and channel Bonnie and Clyde , her latest effort sees her sending a defiant message to critics of her more sexualized offerings with a nod to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And, as in the aforementioned taste, and please, please, please videos, the latest addition to her oeuvre also features an impressive A-list guest.
On Friday morning, to coincide with the release of her already controversial new album Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina unveiled the music video for the collection’s second song, Tears.
She is joined in the clip by two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, who plays Frank-N-Furter to her Janet.
Like Rocky Horror, the video opens with Sabrina dressed up before she encounters Coleman’s mysterious character and finds herself in increasingly surreal (and, frankly, racy) scenarios, culminating in her spying for some of the cult film’s most iconic scenes.
Meanwhile, as you might expect from a songwriter like Juno and Bed Chem, the lyrics feature some pretty suggestive double entendres.
The song features Sabrina singing about how arousing she finds it when a man does simple things, like showing “a little initiative,” “remembering that I have feelings,” knowing how to “put together a chair from Ikea,” and even offering to “just do the dishes.”
“I have a wet thought that you are a responsible guy,” she crooned over the chorus. “Treating me the way you should, tears ran down my thighs.”
Okay, so… are we going to have a video now?
Sabrina recently shut down critics about her more racy lyrics in an interview with Gayle King on Friday’s edition of CBS Mornings.
“ [My new album] is not for any Pearl Clutches,” she retorted. “But I, I also think that even Pearl Clutches can listen to an album like this in their own solitude and find something that makes them grin and giggle to themselves…”
Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend is available to stream now.
