"There will be screams, but not the bad kind from Sabrina Carpenter. In the new music video for "Tears," the latest edition of the SCCU (Sabrina Carpenter Cinematic Universe), our favorite Polly Pocket finds herself in the middle of the woods after a car crash as she approaches the spooky house that's peeking between her legs (a laJennifer's Body)."
"When she approaches the house, she's met with her very own Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played by Colman Domingo (her second Domingo!). She embarks on her Rocky Horror Picture Show-inspired maze throughout the house- and just like Janet, her matching outfit quickly turns into lingerie. Carpenter spins on a pole in a corn field, has a sparkly dance break with Domingo, and eventually finds herself back outside, with the guy she thought died in the car crash."
"Dropping the same day as her seventh studio album, Man's Best Friend, Carpenter insists that the sexiest thing a man can do is treat her right. "I get wet at the thought of you / Being a responsible guy," Carpenter coos in the chorus. "Treating me like you're supposed to do / Tears run down my thighs." What Carpenter wants is someone who can "do the dishes" or "assemble a chair from IKEA" - the mundane, tedious things that most people dread but still do because adults have to do boring things - a " Manchild" might not."
Sabrina Carpenter's "Tears" music video places her in a Rocky Horror–inspired narrative after a car crash, encountering a Dr. Frank-N-Furter figure played by Colman Domingo. The sequence moves through a haunted-house maze, outfit transitions into lingerie, a pole spin in a cornfield, and a sparkly dance break, ending with a presumed-dead partner returning. The song drops alongside the seventh studio album Man's Best Friend and centers desire around respect and responsibility. Lyrics equate sexual arousal with a partner who performs mundane adult tasks like doing dishes or assembling IKEA furniture, rejecting submissiveness while embracing consensual, on-her-terms sexuality.
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