Sabrina Carpenter is the kind of singer who LOVES expressing her actual self by her lyrics and music video visuals. Final summer time, Sabrina admitted in regards to the lyrics of “Espresso” that:  “It was a manifestation tactic, as a result of nobody preferred me romantically at that time – nobody was obsessive about me,” she instructed The Guardian. “I didn’t have anybody I used to be even speaking to.”

It labored out since she’s probably the most sought-after Gen-Z starlets of our fashionable period. Some persons are questioning if she equally expressed herself in her current single “Manchild” to clap again in opposition to her ex-boyfriend, Barry Keoghan. Loads of followers are beginning to suppose so, and with legitimate purpose!

Did Sabrina Simply Throw Extra Shade at Barry?

Sabrina simply dropped “Manchild” and has been selling it on Instagram with a sequence of posts in honor of the tune and music video. In a single edgy caption, she wrote, “This one’s about you!” So… who’s that remark directed to? 

The scathing lyrics of the tune say, “Manchild, why you all the time come working to me? / F*** my life / Received’t you let an harmless girl be? / By no means heard of self-care / Half your mind simply ain’t there.”

Sabrina’s most up-to-date ex-boyfriend is Barry, which leads individuals to suspect the tune is all about him. One particular person in her remark part jokingly referenced Barry’s film Saltburn in a remark writing, “Rattling, that SALT in Barry’s wound BURNS proper now, I do know it.” 

Different followers have additionally chimed in with their ideas:

  • “Barry studying the lyrics to #Manchild and realizing she uncovered that he finishes shortly.”
  • “You higher clock that Barry boy. He’s so cooked.”
  • “It’s Sabrina‘s sizzling woman summer time, and we all know Barry’s out within the chilly.

However, not everybody’s satisfied the tune is about Barry. Others imagine “Manchild” is much extra generalized and easily meant for all the manchildren of the world. Sabrina‘s relationship with Barry got here crashing down in December 2024, so she’s had greater than sufficient time to course of their break up.

In line with Sabrina, the tune was written with a loving and constructive mindset that goes properly past her failed relationship together with her ex.

In an IG caption, she defined, “I wrote ‘Manchild’ on a random Tuesday… not too lengthy after ending Quick n’ Candy, and it ended up being the very best random Tuesday of my life. Not solely was it so enjoyable to write down, however this tune turned one thing I can look again on that can rating the psychological montage to the very complicated and enjoyable younger grownup years of life…”
Nonetheless… It’s simple to grasp why so many followers insist the tune is a direct clapback in opposition to Barry. That’s as a result of Sabrina absolutely threw shade at him in her music video for her remix of “Please Please Please” that she recorded with the faaabulous Dolly Parton final spring.

Within the OG music video, Sabrina gallivants round city with a hardened legal who dabbles in unlawful actions. Sabrina particularly selected to reference Barry within the music video since she is aware of he completely exudes dangerous boy vitality. 

Within the remix, Sabrina and Dolly are seen joyfully singing collectively whereas a Barry-look-alike is tied up at the back of a automobile, struggling to remain alive with a bag over his head. Barry’s physique double, squirming round on the verge of loss of life, speaks volumes in regards to the degree of shade she’s prepared to throw! 

However we additionally should do not forget that Sabrina has a brilliant zesty, darkish, and sarcastic humorousness. She’s not curious about bodily hurting anybody! However the best way she tells tales in her music movies certain begins conversations. 

Even when Barry wasn’t the only muse for “Manchild,” the idea that he performed an element isn’t going wherever.