Original title: Sabrina Carpenter Says ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Cover Is “a Metaphor”
In the wake of the release of Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter is still defending the album’s controversial cover art. After Carpenter debuted the cover for her seventh studio album in June, some critiqued the image, which depicts the singer on her knees in a black dress as a man stands out-of-shot, clutching onto her hair. It sparked a conversation about sex-positive feminism, though Carpenter admitted in a profile with Interview Magazine on Tuesday that “the reaction [to the album cover] is fascinating to me.” “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t do anything anticipating what the reaction will be,” she said. “When I came up with the imaging for [Man’s Best Friend], it was so clear to me what it meant. So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, ‘wow.’” Interview editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg further questioned Carpenter’s reaction to the negative reception of the album art, asking “when there’s all this controversy and people are screaming abo