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"Manchild" is the lead single from Sabrina Carpenter's seventh album Man's Best Friend. It was released on June 5, 2025, with a vinyl release the following day. The music video was released on June 6, 2025. It was written by Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter.

Background[]

On May 11, 2025, Carpenter uploaded a series of photos on her Instagram for her birthday post wearing an outfit from the "Manchild" music video, with the caption "26 years of jokes not landing".[1] This outfit later appeared in the music video and behind-the-scenes video.

Four billboards had appeared along the I-69 freeway around the end of May to early June 2025, teasing upcoming music from Carpenter. They read "Hey men!", "I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them", "Amen", and "Manchild", the latter revealing the name of the song.[2][3]

On June 2, 2025, Carpenter posted a teaser for the song on her social media with no caption.[4] The following day, the song was officially announced on her social media, with the title, release date and a vinyl release, alongside the caption "this one's about you!!". The vinyl includes a B-side track titled "Inside of Your Head When You've Just Won an Argument with a Man", as shown on her official webstore.[5]

The music video teaser was posted on June 5, 2025 along with its release time on her social media.[6]

Carpenter debuted the song live at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain on June 6, 2025.

Track listing[]

Streaming[]

  1. "Manchild"

7" vinyl[]

  1. "Manchild" (A-side)
  2. "Inside of Your Head When You've Just Won an Argument with a Man" (B-side)

Lyrics[]

Oh boy

You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it
Whole outfit you're wearing, God, I hope it's ironic
Did you just say you're finished? Didn't know we started
It's all just so familiar, baby, what do you call it?

Stupid
Or is it slow?
Maybe it's useless?
But there's a cuter word for it, I know

Man-child
Why you always come a-running to me?
Fuck my life
Won't you let an innocent woman be?
Never heard of self-care
Half your brain just ain't there
Man-child
Why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?

Why so sexy if so dumb?
And how survive the Earth so long?
If I'm not there, it won't get done
I choose to blame your mom

Man-child
Why you always come a-running to me?
Fuck my life
Won't you let an innocent woman be?
Never heard of self-care
Half your brain just ain't there
Man-child
Why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?

Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get
And I like my men all incompetent
And I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them
Amen, hey, men
Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get (Play hard to get)
And I like my men all incompetent (Incompetent)
And I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them (Not choosing them)
Amen (Amen), hey, men (Hey, men)

Man-child
Why you always come a-running to me? (Always come a-running to me)
Fuck my life
Won't you let an innocent woman be? (Amen)

Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get (Play hard to get)
And I like my men all incompetent (Incompetent)
And I swear they choose me, I'm not choosing them (Not choosing them)
Amen (Amen), hey, men (Hey, men)

Videos[]

Gallery[]

To view the Manchild gallery, click here.

Trivia[]

  • This song marks Carpenter's first production credit.
  • The song marked Carpenter's second number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 following "Please Please Please", and her first song to debut at #1 on the chart.
  • Carpenter wrote the song on a "random Tuesday" shortly after finishing Short n' Sweet.[7]
  • The song was completed right before New Year's Day 2025, along with two other tracks on Man's Best Friend.[8]
  • During the April 1, 2025 show of the Short n' Sweet Tour in Copenhagen, Denmark, Carpenter wore tights with the lyric "I choose to blame your mom", teasing this song two months before its release.[9]

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