Colman Domingo gets in drag for Sabrina Carpenter’s Rocky Horror-inspired ‘Tears’ music video

Colman Domingo is getting campy, kooky and a little bit spooky in Dr. Frank-N-Furter-style drag for Sabrina Carpenter’s music video for new single “Tears”.

“Tears”, the second single lifted from Carpenter’s seventh studio album Man’s Best Friend, sees the famously coquettish blonde bombshell poke further fun at men who offer the bare minimum.

The “Espresso” hitmaker started her onslaught against inept men with the release of “Manchild” earlier this year, and in “Tears”, she takes it up a notch.

“I get wet at the thought of you / Being a responsible guy / Treating me like you’re supposed to do / Tears run down my thighs,” she jests over disco synths and strings on the chorus.

The music video sees Carpenter enter a mysterious house following a car crash with her boyfriend. Once inside, she’s introduced to two-time Oscar nominee and Sing Sing star Colman Domingo, who is donning a cropped suit, red belt and lipstick and a finger wave wig à la Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s androgynous style.

The campy, five-minute clip continues with Carpenter being pushed into a hidden disco room among a rabble of queer outsiders and drag divas, before her baby blue skirt suit co-ord is stripped off her by a flurry of hands with extravagantly long red nails.

Carpenter is left in just her lingerie, much like what happens to Susan Sarandon’s character Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Domingo and his new co-star Carpenter then head into a cornfield, where the Euphoria actor straddles a lipstick-red tractor, and the “Please Please Please” singer whips around a pole dancing pole.

Domingo makes a quick change or two, donning a black leather corset and towering burnt orange beehive in one scene, and a Kinky Boots-style red lingerie set in another.

He and Carpenter close out their scenes together with some tightly choreographed dance routines.

The “Tears” music video ends with Carpenter’s boyfriend approaching her having survived the earlier car crash, but Carpenter’s having none of it. “It’s a thing. Someone has to die, every video,” she tells him.

She then pulls off her high heel and flings it at him, stabbing him straight through the heart.

Ahead of the song being released on streaming services, Domingo teased that he was about to “break the internet”.

“About to break the internet. Tears. Protect all the Dolls,” he wrote on X, with the latter part of the post being a reference to his support for transgender women.

Following the music video reveal, Domingo wrote on X: “Didn’t see that coming did ya?  Thank you Sabs for inviting me to truly play.”

Sabrina Carpenter responded: “You are a DREAM.”

Online, the reaction to the “Tears” video – and specficially, Domingo’s involvement – has been fervent.

you are a DREAM https://t.co/arY2ndRP5p

— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) August 29, 2025

“As a horror AND a drag girlie, this video is A FEAST. Love everything about it,” gushed one fan.

“Okay, this wasn’t a music video, this was a masterpiece,” a second declared.

A third wrote: “Colman Domingo and Sabrina Carpenter are the pairing we never knew we needed, and yet they are instantly iconic.”

“Having Colman Domingo in drag and being inspired by The Rocky Horror Picture Show oh Sabrina you delivered greatness,” agreed a fourth.

Man’s Best Friend is out now.

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