Sabrina Carpenter makes very NSFW New Year's confession but immediately fails it

Nobody does a tongue-in-cheek innuendo quite like Sabrina Carpenter.

This year, however, the US singer vowed to take her mind out of the gutter as part of a pretty iconic New Year's resolution - but hilariously, she's already broken it!

Sabrina's latest remark has sent fans into a frenzy (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIME)

Sabrina Carpenter has made a name for herself over the last year as a chart-topping global hitmaker, a music video legend, and a fashion icon.

As well as supporting Taylor Swift for the European leg of her Eras tour, going public with BAFTA-winning boyfriend Barry Keoghan, and selling out her entire Short n' Sweet arena tour, she's also recently been nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the upcoming Grammy Awards.

That's a pretty impressive CV for the former Disney Channel star.

Sadly, however, her background as a child actor has often meant that Sabrina is subjected to harsher criticism from the parents of younger fans over her adult antics.

Back in November, for example, the 'Espresso' singer came under fire for her supposedly 'over-sexualised' content.

As well as coming for her some of her seductive song lyrics, mums and dads around the world claimed they were horrified to see her getting into some sexual positions with a male counterpart while performing her track 'Bed Chem' on tour.

"I CANNOT be the only person that finds her doing this in front of a audience full of children inappropriate," one lashed out online.

The singer often sparks controversy with her cheeky on-stage antics (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AEG)

Another added: "i am OUTRAGED my 7-year-old sister attended this concert and was exposed to these vile acts this is downright dirty behaviour."

By the sounds of things, however, Sabrina is taking the misplaced criticism in her stride - after all, no one criticises male artists when they reference sex in their performances.

And taking to social media this week, she made a rib-tickling joke about refraining from any more NSFW antics, all the while making a crude joke of her own.

Sharing a series of snaps on Instagram from a recent skiing holiday with friends, she jibed in the caption: "new year’s resolution no more d**k jokes it’s gonna be really hard."

If you don't yet get it, read it again.

Loyal fans of the singer applauded her for her candid comment, with one joking in the comments: "You can make it. For at least 5 minutes. I know you can."

Another teased back: "it’s because they are too soft."

Sabrina shared her NSFW resolution online (Instagram/@sabrinacarpenter)

"The fact u already lost the resolution just by this caption I-" another jibed.

A fourth went on: "Yeah you ain’t gonna keep that resolution."