Sabrina Carpenter Finds It ‘So Funny’ When People ‘Complain’ About Her Risqué Performances: ‘Clearly You Love Sex’

Sabrina Carpenter isn’t looking to get into the “Good Graces” of the critics who don’t like her more sexual songs.

The Grammy-winning musician recently spoke with Rolling Stone for their June cover story, and chatted about the reaction to her hit song, “Juno,” and her cheeky performances of it during her Short n’ Sweet tour.

The song is notably named after the 2007 teen pregnancy film of the same name, and in the song, she not-so subtly sings, “I might let you make me Juno.” But she takes that lyric even further on her tour, and she acts out different sex positions on every stop of her tour, while singing, “Wanna try out some freaky positions? Have you ever tried this one?”

But the 26-year-old musician’s more explicit reenactments don’t end there. During her song, “Bed Chem,” she ends the performance on a heart-shaped bed behind a curtain and staged sex with a male dancer.

While Carpenter has fans eager to see what the next tour stop will bring, others are have shamed her for her performance. But Carpenter told Rolling Stone, “It’s always so funny to me when people complain.”

“They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this,’” she explained. “But those are the songs that you’ve made popular. Clearly you love sex. You’re obsessed with it. It’s in my show.” 

Carpenter added, “There’s so many more moments than the ‘Juno’ positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on.” 

“I can’t control that. If you come to the show, you’ll [also] hear the ballads, you’ll hear the more introspective numbers,” she noted. 

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“I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme,” she added. “I’m not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes.”

She also explained how the criticism aligns with what she finds to be “a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinized in every capacity,” adding “I’m talking about every female artist that is making art right now.”

“It’s something that keeps coming back,” she added. “We just have to grow thicker skin, but they don’t have to learn how to shut their mouths.”

One day before the cover story went live, Carpenter surprised music fans by announcing the release of her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, on Wednesday, June 11. The album drops on Aug. 29, 2025.

“I’m living in the glory of no one hearing it or knowing about it, and so I can not care,” Carpenter said of her forthcoming album. “I can not give a f— about it, because I’m just so excited.”

The Grammy winner also shared an image of the album cover alongside the caption, which showcases her kneeling in a black mini dress and black heels as a man cut out of the photo grabs her blond hair.

Ahead of announcing her forthcoming LP, Carpenter released its lead single “Manchild” on Thursday, June 5.