Did Sabrina Carpenter know she was creating the most culturally significant slap since Will Smith’s when she released “Nobody’s Son”? The sixth track on Man’s Best Friend, with its indelible “That boy is corrupt [POW!]” in the bridge, is a gift to fan-edit TikTokers the world over, who have used it on everyone from Jeremiah Fisher to Tony Soprano to George W. Bush. Skit queen that she is, it was only natural that Carpenter would apply some slap-happy physical comedy to her performance of the song on last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. But by giving the number a karate motif, she committed a big faux pas: shoes on the mat!
In the performance, Carpenter has styled the set like a traditional dojo and sings in a white dotted robe and black belt, all leading up to a literal punch line when she breaks a couple of wooden blocks and kicks a guy in the balls. Fellow icon and musical artist Rina Sawayama, who is Japanese and British, made a crucial observation about the set in her Instagram Stories: “big love to Sabrina
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