Earlier this summer, the pop star Sabrina Carpenter released “Manchild,” the first single from her seventh album, “Man’s Best Friend.” It’s a fluffy screed against a dude mired in an endless adolescence. Heading into the chorus, Carpenter sounds both rankled and coquettish: It’s all just so familiar, baby, what do you call it? Stupid Or is it slow? “I choose …
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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 …
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Sabrina Carpenter is steadily unpacking the nuance behind her latest studio effort, “Man’s Best Friend.” In conversation with Mel Ottenberg for Interview, Carpenter addressed the backlash she received when she first shared the official cover art for the record. “You can be sure that anything I do and say has a little bit of a wink to it,” Carpenter said of …
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Pop princess Sabrina Carpenter recently found herself in the doghouse after she was caught using AI artwork to promote her new album, Man’s Best Friend. Featuring in a set of custom TikTok stickers, the designs were dissected by eagle-eyed fans who picked apart each sloppy AI-ified detail, sharing their disappointment at the marketing move. The controversy comes just weeks after …
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It’s not easy to be a convincing humorist in pop music. By design, lyrics are always meant to be a little quirky but few pop stars have mastered the art of hamming it up quite like Sabrina Carpenter. On Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter is in break-up mode the only way she could be: sad but still horny and altogether self-aware. …
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In June, Sabrina Carpenter announced her seventh album, Man’s Best Friend; its artwork depicts Carpenter on her hands and knees, an unseen man grasping a handful of her hair. It instantly caused an uproar online – most notably among Carpenter’s young fans, who weren’t on Tumblr in 2015, or weren’t aware of the way the Sun newspaper wrote about Madonna …
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Sabrina Carpenter just released her latest album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and shared some of her creative process with fans. At a Spotify event in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of her seventh studio album, Carpenter said, “This creative process was all about sort of embracing spontaneity, all about embracing impulses that I was having and experiences that I was …
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“It was just, like, it’s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents,” she said of the Man’s Best Friend artwork Maybe some of y’all just need to touch grass. In a new interview with CBS Mornings, Sabrina Carpenter addressed the backlash she received to her first round of cover artwork for Man’s Best Friend. “Y’all need to …
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Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. “The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” the “Espresso” pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man’s Best Friend. And she wasn’t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album — not to mention her best. All over Man’s Best Friend, …
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It was a savvy move back in February when Sabrina Carpenter released a country remix of her 2024 summer hit “Please Please Please” that featured Dolly Parton. Not just because Carpenter is a genre-fluid performer and country-pop crossovers have been “in” for the past couple of years. Her commonalities with Parton have much deeper (dyed) roots. “She looks like she …
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