"Grind Song"

23 October 2025

3 mins 09s

The kids are all grind.

Now that the hubbub around 'Man's Best Friend' has died down, Sabrina Carpenter’s done the unthinkable and gone back to middle school. In a Saturday Night Live sketch, at least. The twenty-six-year-old host with the most stars in 'Middle School Lovin'', where she and Bowen Yang get ready to grind the night away. The dance ends at 20:30, however, so they'd best get to it.

Tightened braces, thick hair gel, an incomplete grasp of human anatomy ("What is that stabbing me in the back?" "I don't know and I'm scared!")—they're all here in director Mike Diva's PG-13 romp. Shot like a grown-up's music video, the sketch mines plenty of laughs from Carpenter's risqué persona crossed with "Sun-Capri" and chaperones—one of them, Principal Atkins, is played to apathetic perfection by Kenan Thompson.

It helps that 'Middle School Lovin'' is also a serviceable pop song, one that could make it onto Carpenter’s setlist as an Easter egg. Lyrics such as "We got no rhythm and no inhibitions/Over the pants and romancin'' and "We're gettin' freaky tonight/Despite the difference in height" hit the nail on the blackhead.

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