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Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend [Island, 2025]
In which the showgirl-glamorous, romantic-erotic blonde tries and apparently fails to forge one or more deep and indeed pleasurable bonds with an evolving collection of male hunks with brains and maybe even heart. She gives head to the kind of guy who touched her aforementioned heart after a few rounds of naked twister and not only that—tears run down her thighs for guys who both do the dishes and know how to assemble an Ikea chair. But as someone all too aware that "thinkin' of" rhymes with "drinkin' enough," it's her artistic and psychological duty to report that a girl who knows her liquor is quite often a girl who's been dumped. A−