Sabrina Carpenter carried out her new single, “Tears,” for the primary time on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 7.
The pop star, 26, took the stage at UBS Enviornment in Elmont, New York, carrying a fringe white prime and black leggings alongside a slew of drag queens, who held up indicators supporting trans equality.
Halfway by way of, Carpenter stripped all the way down to a shiny bra and danced within the rain, a nod to the tune’s risqué lyric, “I get moist on the considered you.” (Earlier within the night, she walked the purple carpet in a purple lace costume.)
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Carpenter was nominated for 9 awards this yr, together with Video of the 12 months for “Manchild,” Finest Pop Artist and Finest Album for 2024’s Brief n’ Candy.
The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards celebrates the yr’s largest artists and music movies, so after all additionally they delivered daring and unforgettable vogue moments. A few of Hollywood’s favorites attended the star-studded affair, which passed off on the UBS Enviornment in Elmont, New York, on Sunday, September 7. From Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift to […]
The singer’s look at Sunday’s present got here simply over per week after she launched her seventh album, Man’s Finest Good friend, on which she reunited with producers Jack Antonoff and John Ryan and songwriter Amy Allen.
“It felt like a band in plenty of methods,” she instructed Gayle King on CBS Mornings on August 29 of returning to the studio along with her frequent collaborators. “Like, somebody’s on the drums, and somebody’s over right here enjoying the synth, after which we’re on the tambourine … then I’m slicing vocals.”
Sabrina Carpenter Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos
Following the album’s launch, followers speculated that Carpenter subtly shouts out her exes Shawn Mendes, Barry Keoghan, Joshua Bassett and Dylan O’Brien within the tune “Go Go Juice” by utilizing names that rhyme with theirs.
Nevertheless, the previous Disney Channel star declined to verify whether or not any of the 4 males served as her muses, telling King, “It’s extra enjoyable for individuals to image [someone] of their head than the individual I image in my head, I feel.”
Sabrina Carpenter’s newest studio album, Man’s Finest Good friend, has sparked loads of dialog on either side, however the singer isn’t letting it get her down. “It’s at all times so humorous to me when individuals complain,” she stated in her Rolling Stone cowl story revealed in Could 2025, particularly referring to the backlash over her provocative Brief […]
That stated, Carpenter did acknowledge that her love life typically evokes her music, saying, “I really feel fairly clear going into any of my relationships that I write songs, and I feel they’re simply as down for it. … More often than not, they’ve been fairly flattered … once they get a tune written about them — good or dangerous.”
The Lady Meets World alum made her VMA debut final yr when she carried out a medley of her Brief n’ Candy hits “Please Please Please,” “Style” and “Espresso,” the final of which went on to win Track of the 12 months through the ceremony.
“I’ve actually by no means received one in all these. That is actually particular,” she stated throughout her acceptance speech earlier than thanking “the most effective followers on the earth” along with her household, managers and pets.
This yr’s performers additionally included prime nominee Girl Gaga in addition to honorees Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes and Ricky Martin.
