Sabrina Carpenter has crafted an alternative finale to her haunting Tears music video, reimagining its macabre climax.
On August 29, the 26-year-old pop phenomenon unveiled the original cut of the eerie “Tears” clip to coincide with the release of her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend.
The nearly five-minute narrative follows Carpenter as she emerges from a car crash that seemingly claims her companion’s life. Disoriented and alone, she discovers a secluded mansion teeming with decadent revelry—an homage to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The sequence culminates in Carpenter delivering a fatal stiletto blow to her presumed-dead partner.
“But…weren’t you already dead?” she quips before plunging her heel into his chest. “My apologies. We’ll immortalize you, though.”
This Monday, September 1, Carpenter teased “an alternative conclusion” on her Instagram Story, linking fans to a new ending on YouTube.
In this fresh denouement, Carpenter steps out of the haunted house only to see her companion emerge from the woods, injured and coughing. “Baby, I thought I’d lost you,” he murmurs, limping toward her. A lightning bolt crackles overhead, and just as she warns him to move aside, a massive branch crashes down—ending his life once more. “I told him to move,” she deadpans, tipping her hat.
The video also features Academy Award nominee Coleman Domingo in drag and accompanies Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter’s Jack Antonoff–produced follow-up to 2024’s Short n’ Sweet, which reigned atop the Billboard 200 for four weeks.
Watch Sabrina Carpenter’s “Tears” video—with its brand-new ending—above.
