Sabrina Carpenter released the single "Tears" on Aug. 29 as part of the album Man's Best Friend. The song features risqué, explicit lyrics that open with "I get wet at the thought of you" and frame everyday tasks and communication as forms of foreplay. The lyrics emphasize initiative, small domestic gestures, and clear communication as attractive qualities. The cinematic music video portrays Carpenter stranded after a boyfriend's car crash, meeting Colman Domingo, and entering a Rocky Horror–inspired fantasy that distorts desire and horror. The album embraces playful, sexual themes and warns against prudish reactions.
Ahead of Man's Best Friend's release, she warned, "the album is not for any pearl clutchers," in an interview with CBS Mornings. So it shouldn't be too surprising that "Tears" might be Carpenter's horniest song yet. The single opens with the line: "I get wet at the thought of you." However, she has some conditions before heading to the bedroom, explaining that getting jobs done is her preferred love language, from doing the dishes to teaching her how to use a new phone.
Carpenter admitted that her risqué lyrics might be "too TMI." Still, as she explained to Gayle King, "I think about being at a concert with, you know, however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends, and you can go like, 'Oh, we can all sigh [in] relief.' Like, 'This is just fun.' And that's all it has to be."
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