Sabrina Carpenter has performed it once more. The perky pop star lit up the 2025 MTV VMAs with a provocative efficiency of “Tears,” taken from her lately launched seventh album, Man’s Finest Pal (which landed on our Finest Albums of August 2025 checklist). Watch the efficiency beneath.
As a track about — properly, climaxing — Carpenter unsurprisingly pushed the envelope along with her efficiency. She emerged from a… manhole and getting moist within the rain. And in one of many night time’s lone political moments, she was joined by a bunch of drag performers holding indicators with slogans like “Dolls, Dolls, Dolls,” “If You Hate You’ll By no means Get Laid,” and “Shield Trans Rights.”
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It’s the most recent in a sequence of spotlight performances for Carpenter this yr, which features a shock look from R&B legends Earth, Wind & Hearth throughout her set at this yr’s Lollapalooza to play “Let’s Groove” and “September.” Again in July, she welcomed members of latest wave icons Duran Duran to the stage throughout a present at London’s BST Hyde Park for a run-through of that band’s 1982 traditional, “Hungry Just like the Wolf.”
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Whereas she’s celebrating the discharge of Man’s Finest Pal (which arrived with a controversial album cowl that was defended by soft-rock legend, Carly Simon), Carpenter isn’t fairly performed along with her breakout 2024 full-length, Quick n’ Candy. The pop star has scheduled a victory lap tour for that album with a string of US dates that kick off in late October with a two-night stand in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earlier than cruising via New York Metropolis, Nashville, Toronto and Los Angeles for multi-night runs (get tickets right here).
The singer’s 2026 dance card is already filling up, as she’s set to affix the likes of Chappell Roan, Lorde and Deftones for Lollapalooza’s South American festivals in Chile, Argentina, and Brasil.