Sabrina Carpenter’s latest music video, Tears, continues her tongue-in-cheek tradition of killing off the leading men – a running joke that has now sparked debate over whether the theme is parody or something more sinister.

This time, she plays with the trope directly. The video opens with her boyfriend in a car crash. When he comes back from the dead later on, Carpenter appears unimpressed.

She says: ‘What, no? You died earlier, I thought? It’s a thing. Someone has to die in every video’.

She then apologises before spearing him in the heart with a high heel, finishing the job.

The moment delighted her fans who have clocked the body count building across her videos – from a gym and lift in Feather, to a cliff plunge in Manchild, and a speedboat send-off in Espresso.

However, the move

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