Once upon a time, primarily in the pre-raunch ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there was a genre of film popularly known as the sex comedy, in which adult relationships (and what we now might call situationships) were mined for faintly risque but reasonably sophisticated laughs and maybe even a slight bit of actual insight. It’s anyone’s guess whether Sabrina Carpenter has seen a lot of those movies in the course of absorbing all the old-school show biz that informs her public persona, but boy, does she know sex comedy. No other star of the screen or songland is nearly so dedicated to getting laughs out of the carnage in the battle of the sexes, as she does to an even further degree in her very winning new album, “Man’s Best Friend.”
01 Manchild 02 Tears 03 My Man on Willpower 04 Sugar Talking 05 We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night 06 Nobody’s Son 07 Never Getting Laid 08 When Did You Get Hot_ 09 Go Go Juice 10 Don’t Worry I’ll Make You Worry 11 House Tour 12 Goodbye