Pop princess Sabrina Carpenter released a no-skip album Aug. 23, which includes her two hit singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.” 

With 12 songs totaling a little over 36 minutes, “Short n’ Sweet” allows listeners to dive into a series of diverse yet cohesive sounds about love, lust, heartbreak and revenge. The album features a mix of pop, alt-rock, R&B and even country. 

In “Slim Pickins,” Carpenter uses a bit of twang mixed with blunt sass to describe what it’s like to date and ultimately having to settle to get her “fixings.” 

In the song, Carpenter sings, “Since the good ones are deceased or taken / I’ll just keep on moanin’ and bitchin’.”

Carpenter has a knack for words as she sings that if she can’t get what she wants, she’ll just have to settle for a guy who “doesn’t even know the difference between ‘there,’ ‘their’ and ‘they are.’”

Her man-hating lyrics are comically relatable. Unfortunately, the current dating scene is just not it. Fortunately, Carpenter has also gone through the canon event of dealing with meathead men, thus producing an album full of bops. 

Carpenter told Paper magazine that the album references a “series of unfortunate events I’ve encountered in relationships.”

The album’s opening song, “Taste,” references being with a two-timing guy who ultimately gets back with his ex. Carpenter cheerfully sings, “I heard you’re back together and if that’s true / You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissin’ you.” 

This song has caught the attention of many people on social media, especially since the music video has several references to horror movies, and features scream queen Jenna Ortega. 

From begging men to not hurt her ego to airing grievances from past situationships — Carpenter is authentic about how she feels but she does it iconically with upbeat backtracks in quite a few of her songs, making most of the songs catchy. 

Carpenter rearranges a cliche phrase, singing “don’t smile because it happened, baby / cry because it’s over” in “Don’t Smile” and boasts that men shouldn’t wrong her in “Good Graces.”

Carpenter is open about how she feels about her failed relationships — she does not put up with poor communication or having to second guess her position.

In “Please Please Please,” she sings, “If you don’t wanna cry to my music / Don’t make me hate you prolifically.” This acts as a warning to any potential lovers — if these men acted right, they wouldn’t have to face Carpenter’s witty wrath. 

Honestly, any man who upset Carpenter has severely fumbled, because as stated in the charting song “Espresso,” she “Walked in and dream-came-trued it for ya.”

Since coming out with her fifth studio album “Emails I can’t Send,” released in July 2022, Carpenter has been known to use raunchy, sarcastic and clever wordplay in her lyrics — especially in the improvised outros of her song “Nonsense.”

From sexual innuendos and racy jokes, Carpenter is casually funny with her lyrics and pop culture references. 

This theme continues in her sixth studio album, “Short n’ Sweet,” with songs like “Juno” and “Bed Chem,” which both feature fairly explicit, yet humorous, sexual references.

For example, in “Juno,” she sings “If you love me right, then who knows? / I might let you make me Juno,” in reference to the 2007 indie film featuring a pregnant teenager.

Songs like “Lie to Girls” and “Dumb and Poetic” offer a more balladesque vibe compared to the album’s other songs.

In “Dumb and Poetic,” Carpenter belts about falling for men who don’t communicate, concluding that “just ’cause you act like one doesn’t make you a man.” This references the stereotype that men do not talk about their feelings and often pride themselves on that fact — which, by the way, is the opposite of manly. 

Throughout the album, Carpenter demonstrates to listeners that if she can recover from egotistical men who have severely overstated their own worth — and have fun while doing so — so can they.