Metacritic: 74 

*17 reviews counted

 

Reviews

 

Variety (85/100)

https://variety.com/2025/music/album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review-1236501725/

Paste Magazine (85/100)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/sabrina-carpenter/sabrina-carpenter-says-the-quiet-parts-out-loud-on-mans-best-friend

Consequence of Sound (83/100)

https://consequence.net/2025/08/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review-album/

CLASH (80/100)

 https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend/

The Guardian (80/100)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/29/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review

RollingStone (80/100)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review-1235419429/

NME (80/100)

https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review-review-3889055

Pitchfork (79/100)

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend/

Beats Per Minute (71/100)

https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend/

Slant (70/100)

https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review/

Sputnikmusic (70/100)

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/90060/Sabrina-Carpenter-Mans-Best-Friend/

Los Angeles Times (70/100)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-08-30/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review

musicOMH (70/100)

https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend

The Independent (60/100)

 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sabrina-carpenter-review-mans-best-friend-b2816415.html

The Skinny (60/100)

https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend

The Telegraph (60/100)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review/

Exclaim! (50/100)

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review

The New York Times (40/100)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/arts/music/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review.html

 

*I will only add reviews that count for Metacritic. Feel free to post other reviews or talk about AOTY in the thread. 

Edited September 4, 2025Sep 4 by thatsmydemi

77.

I feel like it will stabilise in mid to high 70s

70.

rolling stone we need that 5/5 star instant classic review asap

I am going to say somewhere in the 60s. Seeing lots of mixed reviews.

Variety wrote a very positive review

https://variety.com/2025/music/album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review-1236501725/

Variety raves it

 

https://variety.com/2025/music/album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review-1236501725/

Feeling high 60s/low 70s

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/mans-best-friend-by-sabrina-carpenter-review-b1245045.html
 

4/5 The Standard (counts for AOTY but not metacritic) 

7 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

Variety wrote a very positive review

https://variety.com/2025/music/album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review-1236501725/

 

7 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Variety raves it

 

https://variety.com/2025/music/album-reviews/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-album-review-1236501725/

as soon as it gets added to MC and we get a score, I'll add it to the OP. Thanks  

27 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

rolling stone we need that 5/5 star instant classic review asap

Rolling Stone is really the People Magazine of music..just handing "Instant Classic" to every B-A lister 

There will be

 

 

The Guardian gave it a 4/5

 

Edited August 29, 2025Aug 29 by Julia Fox

The Times: Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend review — surprisingly vanilla 3/5

Just now, EnigmaticAndroid said:

The Times: Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend review — surprisingly vanilla 3/5

(Doesn't count for MC or AOTY)

4/5 by the Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/29/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review

1 minute ago, suburbannature said:

(Doesn't count for MC or AOTY)

thank god

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"Don't Worry I'll Make You Worry" is a pretty and mournful pivot into shoegaze

1 minute ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

4/5 by the Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/29/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review

thank god it's not THAT man...

thank you Shaad you legend

 

4 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

(Doesn't count for MC or AOTY)

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Feel free to post other reviews or talk about AOTY in the thread. 

Just now, EnigmaticAndroid said:

 

I'm aware, but just clarifying to others in the thread who might be interested that it doesn't count

Man's Best Friend review - too much that feels like a first draft

 

Man's Best Friend, squeezed out almost exactly one year later, strays little further. There are the same "am I right, ladies?" punchlines to its lyrics, the same "oops, did I just say that?" swears and barbs, and overall the same production flourishes. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sabrina-carpenter-review-mans-best-friend-b2816415.html

 

 

this is so ruthless but accurate 

5 minutes ago, MonsterNavy said:

Man's Best Friend review - too much that feels like a first draft

 

Man's Best Friend, squeezed out almost exactly one year later, strays little further. There are the same "am I right, ladies?" punchlines to its lyrics, the same "oops, did I just say that?" swears and barbs, and overall the same production flourishes. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sabrina-carpenter-review-mans-best-friend-b2816415.html

 

 

this is so ruthless but accurate 

The way all of these, even the lukewarm ones, directly contradict everything you've said  

 

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Then again, there's a Trojan horse quality to Man's Best Friend: it's so distinctly Carpenter that you might not even realise it's one of the year's singular, musically provocative pop records.

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 played almost entirely with live instruments and packed with so many hooks that it feels as if it might burst at the seams, it seems a true creative arrival for Carpenter. The most significant provocation here may be a newly minted star, beloved by gen Z, going against industry orthodoxy and packing an album with unusual instruments, including clavinet, sitar and agogo, and making distinct allusions to Abba and Fleetwood Mac's Tusk.

 

iktr, Guardian

3/5 from the Telegraph (UK)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-review/