“I’m a private person,” she says — then hands you her diary with the good pages blacked out. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Vicious” flirts with confessional pop but pulls every punch. It’s heartbreak-as-brand, catharsis-by-algorithm. She asks, “Why you gotta be so vicious?” but the real question is, why isn’t she?
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