{"id":143431,"date":"2025-06-08T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=143431"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:41:23","slug":"sabrina-carpenters-manchild-has-the-internet-playing-detective-is-it-about-her-ex-barry-keoghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/sabrina-carpenters-manchild-has-the-internet-playing-detective-is-it-about-her-ex-barry-keoghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u201cManchild\u201d has the Internet playing detective \u2014 Is it about her ex, Barry Keoghan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong>\u2019s new single \u201c<strong>Manchild<\/strong>\u201d just dropped, and fans are already diving deep into the lyrics with full detective mode activated. The internet\u2019s buzzing with speculation that the cheeky bop is aimed at none other than her ex, Saltburn sta<strong>r Barry Keoghan<\/strong>. After all, the song landed exactly a year after \u201cPlease Please Please,\u201d which starred Keoghan and marked their very public relationship.<\/p>\n<p>But before you go adding it to your breakup playlist, Sabrina didn\u2019t explicitly say it was about her ex! She revealed on Instagram that \u201cManchild\u201d was born on a random Tuesday with co-writers <strong>Amy Allen<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Antonoff<\/strong>. The singer revealed it represents the confusing, chaotic, and fun rollercoaster that is young adulthood. The song is like a \u201cloving eye roll,\u201d wrapped in summer energy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCdailyupdates\/status\/1930778799236682091\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sabrina Carpenter via Instagram post!<\/p>\n<p>\u201ci wrote manchild on a random tuesday with amy and jack not too long after finishing short n&#39; sweet and it ended up being the best random tuesday of my life not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to me something I can look\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTcpk1t9SO\">pic.twitter.com\/HTcpk1t9SO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sabrina Carpenter Daily (@SCdailyupdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCdailyupdates\/status\/1930778799236682091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still, lyrics like \u201cManchild, why you always come a-runnin\u2019 to me?\u201d and \u201cHalf your brain just ain\u2019t there\u201d were too juicy for fans to ignore. Whether it\u2019s a diss or just a revelation about an ex, one thing\u2019s clear: Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s got the pen, the power, and the personality to turn heartbreak into a bop that\u2019s currently aiming for a top 3 debut on the <strong>Billboard Hot 100<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChartPredicts\/status\/1931706816125079869\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sabrina Carpenter&#39;s &quot;Manchild&quot; is currently aiming to debut within the top three on next week&#39;s Billboard Hot 100 (chart dated June 21, 2025), which could mark her fourth top 10 hit on the chart.<\/p>\n<p>The track is also projected to debut with 20-25 million streams (ranking among the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGJNpCxWm2\">pic.twitter.com\/qGJNpCxWm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chart Predictions (@ChartPredicts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChartPredicts\/status\/1931706816125079869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s new single \u201cManchild\u201d just dropped, and fans are already diving deep into the lyrics with full detective mode activated. The internet\u2019s buzzing with speculation that the cheeky bop is aimed at none other than her ex, Saltburn star Barry Keoghan. After all, the song landed exactly a year after \u201cPlease Please Please,\u201d which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":143432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264,4],"tags":[1358],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-pop","10":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143431"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=143431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}