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It is common apply for music videos to pay homage to famous movies as visible shorthand — from Madonna cosplaying Marilyn Monroe’s “Gents Want Blondes” look in “Materials Woman” to The Smashing Pumpkins taking a trip to the moon in “Tonight, Tonight.” Now, pop star Sabrina Carpenter is the most recent to do that in her new video for “Tears,” the second observe on her just-released, hotly anticipated seventh album, “Man’s Greatest Pal.”
Carpenter launched a video for the album’s opening observe, “Manchild,” depicting her as an unfortunate hitchhiker. The “Tears” video takes a flip into phantasmagoria proper out of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Carpenter’s co-star is Academy Award-nominated actor Colman Domingo, who seems as a Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) like drag queen lip-syncing to vocals of “Tears,” guiding Carpenter to embrace her internal freak.
Now, the tune is named “Tears,” however it’s not about crying or unhappiness. The entire album is about lust, and “Tears” is not any totally different. Carpenter’s refrain contains traces like “I get moist on the considered you” and “Tears run down my thighs.” However that is Sabrina Carpenter’s star picture; her songs are unapologetic in specializing in intercourse and need, and her performing outfits vary from lingerie to corsets. Her lyrical sexuality is as unfiltered as Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” however delivered with a wink and camp (similar to “Rocky Horror” is). Not everyone seems to be on board along with her model; the “Man’s Greatest Pal” album, displaying Carpenter on all fours with a person holding her hair like a leash, has been accused of evoking all the pieces from BDSM to antifeminism. Carpenter herself stays unbothered. Interviewed on CBS Mornings, she mentioned:
“The album is just not for any pearl clutchers however I additionally suppose that even pearl clutchers can hearken to an album like that in their very own solitude and discover one thing that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.”
The “Tears” video is directed by Bardia Zeinali, who beforehand directed Carpenter’s video for “Please, Please,b Please.” The “Tears” video is 5 minutes lengthy, about twice the size of the tune alone, attributable to an extended build-up and epilogue. Carpenter, who’s wearing a blue model of Janet’s (Susan Sarandon) pink hat and coat combo from “Rocky Horror,” walks away from a automotive crash. She comes upon a home in the midst of nowhere, similar to how Janet and Brad (Barry Bostwick) adopted a light-weight to Frank’s mansion.
As Carpenter walks in direction of the home, blood pink titling seems onscreen, lettered similar to ’70 grindhouse horror. Whereas no horrors or mad science are occurring in the home, Carpenter nonetheless takes a journey as wild as any time warp.
