The music video will have to wait till Friday morning, but Sabrina Carpenter dropped the audio version of her new single, “Manchild,” Thursday evening, and initial responses were strong, with some fans confidently predicting the upbeat number is strong enough to contend in the Song of the Summer race. Even if not every guy will necessarily be singing along.

Carpenter talked about the creation of the song in an Instagram post. “I wrote ‘Manchild’ on a random Tuesday with Amy and Jack not too long after finishing ‘Short n’ Sweet’ and it ended up being the best random Tuesday of my life,” the singer wrote, referring to Jack Antonoff — who co-produced the track with her — and Amy Allen .

“Not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to me something I can look back on that wi

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