Hazel Sills

Like, it's very, like... It's very, like... Sabrina Carpenter is especially really good at this, whether you love her or hate her.

She is always kind of skewering men in her music and telling them how stupid they are, how they're not living up to her expectations.

She has a huge hit this year called Man Child, which is basically...

You know, the message of it is like she's telling a guy, why can you not do anything yourself?

Like, why do I have to do everything for you?

Why do I have to always pick up after you?

Olivia Deen's song is really fascinating to me because especially coming out in the same year as a song like Man Child, they're contrasting.

kind of expressing at their core the same request which is like can you step up to the plate like can you be the man that i need you to be and olivia dean is doing it with this real kind of earnesty and like sweetness and she has real sincerity yeah she's she's like can you please like

open up to me?

Can you please be the person that I need in a relationship?

And so it really is like those two songs for me this year are like two very fascinating sides of the same coin.

When Sabrina Carpenter sings in Man Child about how a guy can't do anything right for her...

She also has a line in that song where she's like, I like my men all incompetent, which kind of complicates that song, right?

You know, I think Olivia Rodrigo's song from a few years ago, Get Him Back, that's a song about all the things she doesn't like about a guy.

But it's also kind of like she kind of does like a little bit of it.

Yeah.

And I think like the Olivia Dean song, Man I Need, is probably, you know, to me, it really does feel like a turning point in this trend and into a like, well, here is what I need.

And she needs her partner to open up to her.

She needs intimacy.

She is saying the things that she needs.