Dylan O’Brien recently responded to speculation that Sabrina Carpenter references him in her song Go Go Juice.
The song is a single on the 26-year-old pop star’s latest album Man’s Best Friend, in which she appears to rhyme several of her ex’s names with various words.
While she and Dylan, 34, were not in a long-term relationship, they were briefly romantically linked in 2022 when they were seen kissing in New York City.
Sabrina sings in the track: ‘I’m just drinking to call someone / Ain’t nobody’s safe when I’m a little bit drunk / Could be John or Larry, gosh, who’s to say? / Or the one that rhymes with villain if I’m feelin’ that way.’
Fans surmise that ‘John’ refers to Shawn Mendes, ‘Larry’ to Barry Keoghan, ‘gosh’ to Joshua Bassett, and ‘villain’ to Dylan.
Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen asked the actor about the song earlier this month, and he said he ‘wasn’t aware’ of the theory.
Dylan O’Brien recently responded to speculation that Sabrina Carpenter references him in her song Go Go Juice
While Sabrina and Dylan, 34, were not in a long-term relationship, they were briefly romantically linked in 2022 when they were seen kissing in New York City; pictured September 7
He said on the episode, ‘Oh, and my name rhymes with villain. Well, she never drunk dialed me.’
Andy then suggested, ‘Maybe you just didn’t pick up… your house famously doesn’t have service.’
And Dylan confirmed, ‘My house does not have good service. Yeah, you have to get me by FaceTime audio.’
Amid chatter about the inspiration behind her catchy and provocative music, Sabrina has played coy.
She recently told Gayle King during her appearance on CBS Mornings, ‘It’s more fun to picture the person in their head than the person I picture in my head.’
The blonde entertainer also hit back at critics of her sexualized persona after she infamously caught flack for teasing her risqué album cover over the summer.
Sabrina’s initial Man’s Best Friend cover art featured her on all fours, in a black mini dress, with an anonymous guy clutching a fistful of her hair.
‘It is not for the pearl-clutchers. The album is not for any pearl-clutchers, no,’ she warned ahead of the release.
Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen asked the actor about the song earlier this month, and he said he ‘wasn’t aware’ of fans’ theory that Sabrina replaced his name with the word ‘villain’ in the lyrics
Listeners also believe Sabrina used the name ‘Larry’ in place of her ex Barry Keoghan; pictured in May 2024
Carpenter has been accused of setting women back for the provocative way she exploited the male gaze on the cover of her seventh studio album Man’s Best Friend dropping this Friday
The singer mused, ‘But I also think that even pearl-clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.’
She admitted her lyrics can be ‘really bold’ and not always something you ‘want to sing in front of other people.’
‘It’s like it’s almost TMI,’ the songwriter explained.
And she added, ‘But I think about being at a concert with however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends and you can go like, “Oh, we can all like, [let out a] sigh of relief, like, this is just fun,” and and that’s all it has to be.’
