It’s not easy to be a convincing humorist in pop music. By design, lyrics are always meant to be a little quirky but few pop stars have mastered the art of hamming it up quite like Sabrina Carpenter . On Man’s Best Friend , Carpenter is in break-up mode the only way she could be: sad but still horny and altogether self-aware.

Just a year out from her blockbuster breakthrough Short n’ Sweet , the singer’s seventh album was created with a tight crew who had been integral to her previous release: Jack Antonoff , Amy Allen and John Ryan. Together with Carpenter’s innuendo-laden wit at the helm, the album zeroes in on the updated Seventies pastiche that worked so well on her biggest hits. She’s a little bit ABBA and a lotta bit Dolly: the Pennsylvania-native hits a charming Souther

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