Why are people upset about Sabrina Carpenter's album cover?
07/08/25 5:03pm
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Sabrina Carpenter sparked controversy when she released the cover of her forthcoming album, Man's Best Friend
. The album art includes a photo of Carpenter wearing a short black dress and heels and kneeling beside a man in a suit (it appears to be a man, at least: his face is cut off) who is pulling her hair while she paws at his leg.
Some people believe Carpenter is satirizing the male gaze with her album art, especially since she has a reputation for this and since the album's lead single is called "Manchild" and takes aim at immature men. Others feel the art is antifeminist and perpetuates the objectification of women, and that even if Carpenter's intention is to be subversive, she fails because the image depicts the thing it's meant to critique. Still others feel that Carpenter has the artistic license to do whatever she wants, and that people shouldn't police her artistic or sexual expression.
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Some people believe Carpenter is satirizing the male gaze with her album art, especially since she has a reputation for this and since the album's lead single is called "Manchild" and takes aim at immature men. Others feel the art is antifeminist and perpetuates the objectification of women, and that even if Carpenter's intention is to be subversive, she fails because the image depicts the thing it's meant to critique. Still others feel that Carpenter has the artistic license to do whatever she wants, and that people shouldn't police her artistic or sexual expression.
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