SABRINA Carpenter has dismissed critics of her raunchy album cover as an older generation “that gets offended”.
The US singer, 26, said backlash over the photo of her on her knees with a man grabbing her hair was equivalent to them saying: “You’re not allowed to have sex but we are.”
Sabrina Carpenter has dismissed critics of her raunchy album cover, pictured smoking and wearing a dress made of Marlboro cigarette packets for a shoot with Interview Magazine[/caption]
The singer said backlash over the photo of her on her knees with a man grabbing her hair was equivalent to them saying: ‘You’re not allowed to have sex but we are’[/caption]
The Man’s Best Friend album cover has drawn a lot of criticism[/caption]
She said: “It’s a generation that has either young children or they’ve raised children and they’re just sort of looking at it from a different point in life, sort of scolding, and they all had sex many times because they popped a lot of kids out.
“So I just think about that and I’m always just like, it’s so funny. I mean, we’re all just so judgmental.”
Her album — Man’s Best Friend — came out last week and is likely hit No 1 tomorrow, with three singles expected in the Top Ten.
Women’s Aid has criticised the cover, saying it “isn’t edgy, it’s regressive”.
The charity went on: “Picturing herself on all fours, with a man pulling her hair and calling it Man’s Best Friend isn’t subversion, it’s a throwback to tired tropes that reduce women to pets, props and possessions and promote an element of violence and control.”
It comes a year after the former Disney star’s hit Espresso topped the UK charts for five weeks.
Sabrina — who also took part in a photoshoot for Interview magazine, smoking and wearing a dress made of Marlboro cigarette packets, and with shaving cream on her face on the cover — told The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music: “There is a generation that gets offended by some of the things I do.
“I’m not allowed to have sex, but you are. I’m also not to be so self-aware, but I’m a pop star. The whole purpose of the photo was supposed to be cheeky and airy and playful of like, ‘I got myself here, this is someone I love but also someone that emotionally can be doing a lot with my heart’.
“There was only one shot that had lighting the way I wanted, with this facial expression where I’m clearly in control.”
Sabrina on the cover of Interview Magazine[/caption]
The album came out last week[/caption]
It comes a year after the former Disney star’s hit Espresso topped the UK charts for five weeks[/caption]
‘There is a generation that gets offended by some of the things I do’, says the hit-maker[/caption]