Written with a cheeky wink and grin, Sabrina Carpenter’s album spares nobody. Reading as giggling late-night gossip, the album breaks Carpenter’s mold of sentimental long-form love letters. Recounting affairs with a narrative of sass and provovcativeness, Carpenter has shattered how she was previously seen by the media.

Released in late August, the album was already making headlines in May, with hit singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” tales of pride and embarrassment.

In a vague sense, Carpenter is sharing her life, with lines critiquing and doing everything but name-dropping her love interests, sparing nobody.

It is a good album, but it is very surface. What she says is what she means, which for some could offer a blandness. But, as a Carpenter fan, this was a really nice change in the lack of metaphors and direct honesty. Carpenter has nothing to hide, and in an industry showcased by lies and passive aggression, it is refreshing.

Proving that albums don’t need to be long to be good, “Short n’ Sweet” lives up to its name. Its twelve tracks are right to the point addressing the obvious with no lengthened dwindles. The brutally honest confessions are available wherever you listen to your music.