Sabrina Carpenter Just Can’t Stop Killing Men in Her ‘Rocky Horror’-Inspired ‘Tears’ Video
Sabrina Carpenter sees you shivering with antici … pation for a new music video, so she’s done making you wait for her next visual.
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On Friday (Aug. 29), alongside the release of her new album Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter dropped the video for the album’s final single “Tears,” which sees the singer recovering from a car accident that has seemingly killed the man she was traveling with. As a frightened Carpenter finds an abandoned-looking house in the middle of nowhere, she enters in to discover a world of sex, hedonism and most important, Academy Award-nominated actor Coleman Domingo in stunning drag.
Throughout the rest of the clip, which takes it’s inspiration from the cult classic horror musical comedy The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Carpenter comes under the tutelage of Domingo’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter-inspired character. She trades her pale blue dress for a piece of ruffled lingerie, learns to dance and eventually gets taken out on the town by her drag mother, all while yearning for a man who treats her with basic respect and decency. “I get wet at the thought of you/ Being a responsible guy,” she croons on the chorus.
But then, Carpenter is suddenly and violently ejected from this house of pleasures, as she sees her presumed-dead lover from the start of the clip staggering up to the house to find her. An exasperated Carpenter rolls her eyes and sighs: “Wait, no, you died earlier, I thought? It’s a thing, someone has to die every video,” she declares, as she takes off a stiletto and hurls it directly into his chest. “I’m sorry. We’ll always remember you, though.”
The video comes alongside Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter’s follow-up to 2024’s Short n’ Sweet. The singer warned listeners in an appearance on CBS Mornings that the NSFW lyrics on the new project were “not for any pearl clutchers,” but added that “even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.”
Watch Sabrina Carpenter’s “Tears” video, featuring Coleman Domingo, above.
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