She is man’s best friend — just not this particular one’s. On Tuesday (March 17), Sabrina Carpenter replied to an X user who was not pleased with the lyrics to her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Manchild.”
“Women are always like ‘men are useless’ but sabrina carpenter is like 4 foot 11, she can even climb into a mid size SUV without help,” reads the post by @uncledoomer. Doomer’s sentiment comes in response to a now viral video of Carpenter performing the single at Lollapalooza Argentina on Sunday (March 15).
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In the clip, Carpenter and the audience participate in a call-and-response to the song’s pre-chorus. “What do you call it?” she sings. “Stupid!” the crowd replies.
“Or it is it?” asks the pop star.
“Slow!” the crowd responds.
“Well maybe it’s …” she considers.
“Useless!” the audiences yells.
The video was shared to X with the caption, “Sabrina Carpenter at Lollapalloza having over 100K people call men ‘USELESS!’” has more than 200,000 likes as of press times.
Rather than allowing someone to speculate on her ability to get into a car on her own, Carpenter decided to end the conversation with three simple words.
“Yes i can ?” she wrote in a response to @uncledoomer that has gained more than 735,000 likes and 7,000 replies in less than 24 hours.
Fans were also quick to defend Carpenter against the hater.
“She didn’t [say] men are useless, she’s talking about the ‘manchild’ in the song being useless. But if you got identified … Oh well,” one response to the post reads.
“How does it feel to be ended by the queen herself,” a fan account for the pop star replied.
This is not the first time Carpenter has used X to stand up for herself or her music. In December, the “Espresso” singer took to the platform to slam the White House for using her Hot 100 track “Juno” in a video of ICE raids. In her post, she calls the video “evil and disgusting” and tells the White House to never uses her music to “benefit [their] inhumane agenda.” Carpenter’s reply has since garnered nearly 2 million likes, and the White House has since deleted the video from its account.
