Nobody expected Sabrina Carpenter to return this quickly. One year and six days after releasing Short n’ Sweet — her commercial breakthrough that elevated her to arena headliner, the album that spawned her first No. 1 single and Grammy award, the project that contained four radio smashes, the moment that a longtime entertainer became a household name — she’s already back with its follow-up, Man’s Best Friend.

Instead of basking in the glow of a pivotal moment, Carpenter has moved on to a new era — yet anyone paying attention to her greater trajectory understands that this new album is not a cash grab, or victory lap. After spending years as a Disney Channel star and even more as a prolific pop ingenue searching for a wider audience, Carpenter has discovered her true potential, and grabbed

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