Sabrina Carpenter dropped her new album, “Man’s Best Friend,” on August 29, and shared her tongue-in-cheek response to critics of her cover photo, which depicts her kneeling on the floor while a man grabs her hair.
When asked by Gayle King in an interview with CBS News how she reacted to pushback from fans regarding the racy pic, Carpenter cheekily said, “Y’all need to get out more.”
The “Man Child” singer expressed feeling “shocked” at the negativity, and told King, “I think between me and my friends and my family and the people that I always share my music and my art with first, it was, it just wasn’t even a conversation.”
She continued, “It was just, like, it’s perfect. For what the album is, it’s perfect for, you know, kind of what it represents.”
Carpenter Described the Meaning Behind the Album Cover
As for what meaning the cover holds, Carpenter told King during the CBS News interview that interpretation was up to the fans.
However, she added, “My interpretation is being in on the control. Being in on your lack of control and when you want to be in control.”
“I think as a young woman, you’re just as aware of when you’re in control as when you’re not,” she added.
Carpenter further defended her album cover and shared, “My fans that know me and know the person behind the music will look at that photo and they know exactly what it is.”
“People that have no idea who I am absolutely look at that photo and go, like, ‘where are her parents?’ My parents actually saw the photo and they loved it,” she declared.
Carpenter’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Got Rave Reviews
Many compared “Man’s Best Friend” to Carpenter’s previous album, “Short n’ Sweet,” touting the latter as better.
However, Variety called Carpenter’s seventh studio album “one of the year’s best pop records.” The publication stated, “Across 12 songs, there’s nary a verse or chorus in which Carpenter’s tongue isn’t in her cheek, even as the songs get at stuff anyone who’s been part of the dating world may find slightly painful in the abstract.”
Guardian, who gave “Man’s Best Friend” four out of five stars wrote, “Few A-list albums released in recent years are as tightly stitched and locked-in as this one; played almost entirely with live instruments and packed with so many hooks that it feels as if it might burst at the seams, it seems a true creative arrival for Carpenter.”
A fan raved on X, “THIS ALBUM IS SO GOOD OMG.”
“Real ones only play this front to back. No skips, no distractions. Volume all the way up,” a Carpenter fan wrote.
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