Everything about this feels so vintage. The year is 2025 and we’re having a major pop culture discourse about the sexiness and/or internalized misogyny of Sabrina Carpenter’s new album cover. Sabrina announced her new album, Man’s Best Friend, on Wednesday. She posted the album covers on her social media:
My new album, “Man’s Best Friend” 🐾
is out on August 29, 2025.i can’t wait for it to be yours x
Pre-order now: https://t.co/E7QJWhYV2D pic.twitter.com/UXVLzBQTj4
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) June 11, 2025
While Sabrina isn’t my favorite, I loved “Espresso” and I appreciate that she stays in her lane. That lane being “sultry pop princess with a vintage flavor.” Sabrina has always leaned into performative femininity in her public persona – she performs in hot pants and lingerie, she has big, bouncy blonde hair, and she loves a face full of makeup. Her lyrics are usually about how she’s hot and men want her, but men are trash and they always disappoint her. She’s not reinventing the wheel in any aspect. She’s not a feminist icon and I don’t believe she’s ever claimed any kind of feminist mantle.
So… that’s part of the discourse about the album cover with Sabrina. They’re mad because… it’s not particularly feminist to be on her knees, with a man grabbing a handful of her hair. They’re mad because Sabrina has young fans (which is true) and what does this say to the young girls who worship her? I find the complaints implying that the cover is wrong because Sabrina “looks young” to be bizarre – she’s 26 years old, and while she has a girlish persona, she’s been singing about sex and adult relationships for years. Personally, I’m surprised by the sexiness of the cover, and I kind of wonder if that’s part of the implied criticism for Gen Z, the Puriteen Gen, the generation which is against any and all depictions of sex or sexiness in art.
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- Radio One Big Weekend at Stockwood Park. Featuring: Sabrina Carpenter Where: Luton, United Kingdom When: 27 May 2024 Credit: Mark Cavill/Cover Images
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- 2025 Met Gala celebrating ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ at Metropolitan Museum of Art Featuring: Sabrina Carpenter Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 05 May 2025 Credit: Matt Crossick/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I find Sabrina’s humor amusing. This nod to BDSm and being a literal dog is funny!
This so much. It’s BDSM and I’m so sick of little girls being used as an excuse to criticize something. Little girls live in a world where they need to understand sexual politics young. We had these same discussions forty damn years ago about Madonna.
@MightMolly: I was just thinking as I was reading your post: Madonna and Debbie Harry already trod this ground. This is really giving late 70s/early 80s punk / 80s music video vixen vibes – I love it. I am 61 and not offended. There were a ton of album covers from those periods that depicted things like this – usually from all-male bands. What I love is that a WOMAN is choosing this for her album cover as if to say, “I’m the one that’s really in control here.”
It’s amazing…”the Puriteen Gen, the generation which is against any and all depictions of sex or sexiness in art” has their knickers in a twist but they’ll gladly LISTEN to music that has misogynist lyrics (or lyrics with explicit words/phrases) with no issue. it’s confusing and exhausting.
She is Bugs Bunny in a dress, she has a great sense of humour, and she is an adult.
Leave the children out of this. Her music isn’t for them.
I say you do you girl, but truthfully, her timing sucks. A year ago this would have been titillating and transgressive, but in Fascist America 2025 it will be co-opted by the alt right in terrible ways. It will be read as an affirmation of shitty porn—women really do fantasize about being degraded. She’ll be accused of being a “pick me”. And her really young teenaged girl audience will have more ammunition for the belief that hair pulling and all the other porn staples are just normal parts of sex. No one has told them otherwise.
I’m old enough to remember Britney Spears “virginal sex kitten” in late 90s, and all the talk about the mixed messages given to young girls and how those mixed messages can harm them. So it’s nothing new.
But she’s 26. She’s old enough to read the room. If this is her choice, whatever. But I don’t think it’ll read as transgressive in the way she hopes. I think it’ll just read as tone deaf and narcissistic.
She can degrade herself in whatever way she wants and I’m sure the MAGA crowd will embrace her – if you can’t get a tradwife, get this one instead!
You nailed it Lanne. I would have thought this was sexy and funny a few years ago but girl, read the room.
I normally love her snarky, sex kitten persona but this image doesn’t give me that at all. If art is viewed in the context of the world we’re living in this just makes me think of grubby music industry abuse parties, online and real world incel violence towards women, far-right tradwife propaganda, and the literal government viewing us as sex objects above all else. I don’t need that from my escapist bubblegum pop too.
Transgressive is doing something against the expectations and gender roles of society. Catering to the male gaze by copying a pose you would see in a porn site with a woman being submissive and degrading herself is not anything new when it comes to female pop stars.
Madonna doing her erotica book was transgressive because she provided images of being in charge.
Billie Eilish wearing comfortable clothing when she performs is transgressive.
When you just add more material for the spank bank, nothing new or satirical has been done.
Something absolutely can be both transgressive and arousing at the same time if it challenges purity culture and our victim-blaming culture- those two elements of our culture shape gender roles and are part of the male gaze too. But I don’t think this image is meant to be transgressive.
Madonna challenged purity culture which is why her work was transgressive. This is not anything different from the usual male centric images that are out there.
I think it’s a tongue on cheek look at how men view women in 2025.
Co-sign.
I hear some young fans are expressing dislike of it, so perhaps she is subversively undercutting her own brand by pushing it to the extreme and will emerge on the other side with some new incarnation. The idea that this cover by itself provides ‘challenges’ to ‘purity culture’ and ‘victim-blaming culture’ is bizarre.
But on the Rolling Stone cover Sidney looks uncomfortable and weak — hardly the empowered persona Madonna projected in her own sexual transgressiveness. (And since we have seen how Madge’s self-image turned out, maybe she wasn’t as empowered as she appeared… )
@Hannah1: Just to clarify, I wasn’t saying that this specific image was taken to challenge those things. I was just saying that something can challenge those things and be arousing at the same time.
@Of — got it. Hope she adds more complexity for the sake of young girls who look up to her
Madonna already did this. So did Britney. None of this is new or groundbreaking or satirical.
Kinda agree. Not into self-degradation for humour approach when women are actively being degraded in law.
But I do think all the concern about her looking too young is annoying. She’s short. She’s not doing anything anyone else hasn’t done…she’s just short. Being short does not make you child-like. It just makes you short. Adults can be short. She’s an adult who is short. The end.
Yea, I would have laughed at this during the Obama years but now it’s just really crappy to see any woman with a voice leaning into something like this. We already have an entire political party trying to control us, we don’t need a pop star elevating that idea.
I think part of it is that she has specifically recreated at least two Lolita images and used a Lolita-affiliated line in a song… Someone posted it all on reddit and I was appalled.
And the issue isn’t girls seeing it and thinking they should do this, it’s boys seeing it and thinking they’re entitled to it. I’m generally an up for anything gal, but if a guy were to grab my hair in a coercive way and we hadn’t discussed it, he’d get a slap across the face. But I’ve been at this a while. If I’d come up with all this violent imagery, my experiences probably would have been worse.
I’m old enough to remember ‘I’m black & blue for The Rolling Stones’ campaign. That one and this one are just a big no for me.
Someone referred to the cover as Terry Richardson-lite and I think that’s why I hate it so much. It just feels like another woman being exploited for the male gaze and if that’s what she wants w/e. Wouldn’t be me.
I cringed when I saw it. I remember so much obectifying woman in the aughts. THe book that just came out GIRLS on GIRLS highlights this. If something floats your boat privately thats fine. I feel w Harvey Weinstein and DIDDY and me too that I want my step daughter to see woman claim there sexuality without kneeling to a man who is treating her roughl and like a dogy. I’m just saying my initial reaction especially in our current going backwards environment for woman in some ways w rights to our bodies. My daughter has thru social media thought since she was 11 that dressing in tiny clothes is a way to be considered uncontrollably attractive to boys. The social media really impacts them even before they have an understanding of their sexuality and command of their own bodies.
This looks like the description of the Spinal Tap cover that their recording company canceled–is it meant to refer to that, I wonder?
That exact clip from Spinal Tap with a young Fran Drescher was on my IG feed last night. I think you are right. Sabrina loves to reference past pop culture.
But what young person would realize this? I’m 45 and only now finding out about this Spinal Tap cover, but the cover doesn’t have a man grabbing hair or a woman on her knees….I dunno, am I missing something?
@MolassesMire – Sabrina’s Grammy’s performance was a reference to a Goldie Hawn skit from a tv special Goldie did in the 1970s. Young people wouldn’t get that either. She’s referencing what she likes from pop culture not what she thinks young people might know.
So interesting Fran Drescher was associated with the Spinal Tap. I’m 42 and was not familiar with this album art controversy or Fran being part of anything with Spinal Tap. I know from her The Nanny and now her SAG work; but I do know there are a few sources from late last year where commentary existed connecting what Sabrina was wearing to mimic Fran’s looks. I doubt Man’s Best Friend is a nod to Spinal Tap with Fran, but agree Sabrina loves pop culture hat tips and does what she wants.
I hadn’t seen it lately but I instantly thought of Spinal Tap! Glad I’m not alone!
If it is, it is very mild compared to a greased, naked woman with a dog collar on.
Her cover does not scream sexy at all to me. Is she wearing a romper? And the dude seems to be lifting her hair. idk, I get doing a sexy cover, but this is not it.
Someone from her PR team dug this out and still missed the connection. Spinal tap is a satirical movie where the rock band is a bunch of men. They were actors playing dim witted rock stars.
Nothing about her career to date has been satirical. Just standard issue sex kitten images.
That’s exactly what I was thinking too. Smell the Glove!! But I’m 47 – doubt this was her reference.
I didn’t know she was THIS thirsty.
Make hay while the sun shines. Slutty periods seem to work for some female artists. Don’t know if she did this cover fully sober.
Can we not call women sluts?
Omg – seriously. So thirsty. I didn’t think she was this pathetic.
Yeah, this feels desperate.
There is a Rolling Stones cover that rolled out too adding to this.
Everything I’ve been reading is criticizing the contrary nature of the picture versus what she is saying in her songs. So people are asking why she’s acting like a submissive dog when her songs don’t necessarily promote any submissivness to a man. Is it being facetious on purpose or is it catering to the male gaze? People are also criticizing her being on her knees for a man when the political climate around women’s bodies being controlled is a very prominent issue right now. I’m neither a fan nor a hater.
The album title and cover read as satire to me. She’s saying this is what men think of or want from women. No one has killed as many men their music videos as Sabrina Carpenter. The way she presents her sexuality (based on songs, clothing etc.) is very much for the female gaze.
As a woman, I don’t see anything appealing about what she wears, but I’m also not the demographic she targets (I’m 45). How are her clothes for the female gaze?
Agree. It’s a turn off for this particular female’s gaze.
The female gaze doesn’t mean that women can’t be sexual. I say Sabrina is for the female gaze because that’s who she is performing for. The clothes are girly and feminine, more of a female ideal than a male ideal. The lyrics of her songs are not written for men or about pleasing men; she’s speaking to women. She’s not writhing around for men either, she’s killing them in her videos. Nothing about her music or performances are for men even if she’s wearing lingerie or mimicking sex positions on stage.
I’m 62 and I find anything or anyone portraying this image of kneeling in front of a male while he has a fist full of a females hair to be degrading. I don’t care if she is making a point or not making a point I personally find it offensive. Big NO for me.
Some women very much enjoy watching other women reject modesty.
I can actually imagine her burying that man’s body in the next scene bc she does tend to get sick of the men in her videos.
Inside panel of the record is her buying this guy 😛
@Emily so why didn’t she use that as the main cover then? Women have to first degrade themselves and submit to the dominant male before they snap and bury the guy?
How about know what toxic relationships are and avoid them before falling into them.
Really? Huh. I was genuinely making a guess. Wait, you said buying? I said bury, lol.
No this is male gaze for sure. Madonna catered to the female gaze. This is exactly something you see in porn.
Not my gaze. She’s capitalizing on her “look” — which is overtly sexual. She’s copying other female performers’ schtick but comes off looking like a budget, try-hard version. In this day and age when women’s rights are being forcefully taken from them (What’s next? The right to vote?) it’s only adding to the blonde bimbo stereotype that MAGA and the far right buy into. It’s not the least bit satirical, it’s tasteless, tacky and pandering to the basement dwelling neck beard genre.
That is not “female gaze”. Taylor is a perfect example for “female gaze” with her clothing, image, style. This is good old for him and his pleasure. Women can still enjoy and love it. But, that doesn’t change the fact her image is for straight men. To be fair to her, this is true for a lot of popstars.
Nothing transgressive or empowering about calling yourself a man’s dog and having a male-presenting figure very aggressively use your hair as a leash while you are on all fours in front of him.
Sex/bdsm is no longer transgressive. Madonna broke that door down with her Sex book and album. There is no shock factor it just looks like shitty porn you can find literally at the click of a button.
If we were in a better moment as a society it could be ignored if not to one’s taste. but as women’s autonomy and basic rights are being eroded, sorry, I have an opinion and that is–this is terrible. I visibly made a face looking at this image. Dangerous messaging in these times and absolutely cringe.
She’ll fit right into the MAGA crowd – blonde, submissive…she just needs the right master.
And the thing is, it doesn’t even matter if that isn’t her intention (although maybe it is, I don’t know much about her). These days, it only matters what it looks like. And what it looks like is what you wrote.
Catering to male fantasy isn’t transgressive or satirical. Lots of spin to pretend this is something more than the usual sexy times to sell music that we have seen for generations.
The song may be different, but the images are what people will see first.
And it’s not like her announcement made it seem like anything else either. “Tee hee, my new album dropped!”
If she is going to claim it’s satire, sorry Sabrina, satire is dead. All people see is a woman being degraded.
I agree. It is so annoying when young female pop stars use the excuse of “edginess” or “tongue in cheek” to justify posing nearly nude in submissive sexpot outfits. It’s especially exhausting for early feminists who fought really really hard to prevent being seen as merely decorative or objects.
I know I’m really unpopular in my opinions, but I’m so glad you said EXACTLY my thoughts:
In just WHAT way is “being sexy” in line with the goals and ambitions of the REAL feminist movement:
equal pay, equal power in high position, equal legal rights and defenses, the right to vote etc, shared household and family responsibilities- etc?
Its not like feminism gave us any sort of sexuality or appeal that we didn’t all already have.
What we wanted was to not be stoned to death for being sexual- and I think we got that already, and to me personally, this “plastering yourself in lingerie everywhere” is just.. to whom are you trying to prove what by now?
“It’s especially exhausting for early feminists who fought really really hard to prevent being seen as merely decorative or objects.”
It’s possible to take that fight to an extreme, where everything a woman does has to be a knee-jerk reaction against the male gaze and women have no room outside of their activism to reject female sexual modesty. The left leaned into that extreme for a while (without realizing they were acting like the right), to the point where it was seen as woke to slut-shame any woman or girl who did not want to be modest. Movements evolve, and there’s pushback against that now. Sometimes women get tired of performing respectability.
“What we wanted was to not be stoned to death for being sexual- and I think we got that already.” Women and girls need and deserve so much more than not being stoned to death for being sexual- a battle that hasn’t been entirely won. All forms of abuse women face for being sexual need to end, and women need to stop being blamed for abusive male behavior based on their sexual expression.
Thank you for that last sentence.
The older women push back because they have seen that some men think porn is real and have had to fight back, sometimes literally.
Normalizing degrading material and monetizing it doesn’t do a fucking thing for women’s empowerment. It is selling sex for her own benefit. It’s clear a lot of people are unaware of how much domestic abuse is out there.
Maybe I’m just too old to appreciate edgy but I find this gross and regressive. However, I know it’s not aimed at me or my demographic of old ladies. Yet, that’s kind of the problem. We live in the era of bro culture and the manosphere. It’s like she and her people have read the room and decided to lean into that bs. We don’t need young girls indoctrinated in this sh*t. There’s enough of it around already. I hate it here rn.
Meredith Brooks’ Bitch needs to be updated for this new generation of women growing up.
I don’t find it edgy at all, it’s insulting not only to women but I think of the young girls who want to emulate her without realizing they’re self-demeaning themselves as nothing but over-sexualized objects of male lust, and that’s where they derive their so-called power. The Andrew Tates of the world must be loving this. Not a teachable lesson about love and relationships AT ALL.
I don’t follow Sabrina Carpenter closely, but I think this imagery and album title are meant to be commentary- either on how women are treated/expected to act in general, or on how she felt she was treated or expected to act in a past relationship. It’s not intended to be empowering or to represent something women want to be.
Why oh why is the commentary NEVER the other way? Women dressing powerfully and not-objectified to DEMONSTRATE their empowerment???
Completely agree, @Jezz. Why indeed.
I’ve heard of Sabrina Carpenter but know nothing about her music. This cover guarantees that I never will.
Commentary shouldn’t be images of women kneeling in front of a man who’s pulling her hair like a leash. If she’s had bad relationships why isn’t she writing songs like Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Bonnie Rait, and dozens of others who wrote honestly and poetically about their troubles and didn’t resort to cheap, overtly sexualized images and songs about killing guys. This is pure salaciousness to make buck, nothing more. It’s a tired trope and I wish it would go away.
Because she writes songs like Sabrina Carpenter? You don’t have to be Joni Mitchell to write good songs about relationships.
There have been dozens of artists who have written songs about their lives and relationships while also pushing a sexual image. she’s far from the first one.
That was my take on it as well, especially if the inner picture shows a different scenario. but then, I’m a big Sabrina Carpenter fan.
I don’t find this all that edgy or problematic and honestly am surprised at so many of the comments here.
In these troubled times I would have preferred an image of Sabrina standing tall in dangerously high spiked heals with one shoe pressed on the neck of the blindfolded orange tinted bleach blonde blue suit wearing kneeling white man whose choke chain she is holding just a little too tightly. This image would have hit differently in an era when old white men weren’t gleefully passing laws to deliberately medically neglect women who miscarry to death.
Exactly! I considered what the exact same cover would look like but with Sabrina and the man switched. Why can’t the male figure be the submissive/dog (“man’s best friend”)?
It’s interesting to me that she or her people leaked that she was unhappy with how Pharrell dressed her for the Met Gala. She felt oversexualized without pants and apparently didn’t feel she could stand firm and demand more clothes.
It’s hard to believe images like this help women feel confident standing up to sexism and misogyny at this moment in time. But you do you, boo.
Pharrell said she was short – no pants!
That could have been an opportunity for her to embrace her lack of height and dressed up like Napoleon on this cover. But noooo, I’ll just be another submissive blonde bimbo being patted like a dog or being prepped for some oral.
That’s funny. “Short —no pants!”
Hope it makes it into the cultural lexicon for reference in future satirical skits.
Did she say she felt over-sexualized bc she wasn’t wearing pants? I thought the issue that the no pants look was lazy for a gala about tailoring. As in short people can be tailored too. But I didn’t follow that close.
Girl – stand up!!
I get that she is using this for more attention, however there is a thin line in this discourse. You can find yourself in Katy Perry’s position in a few years with this kind of shtick. Katy explained her horrible music video as criticizing male gaze too. In these trying times, it is so hard to laugh and get angry at these things. It is just sad.
There is also another cover I saw, depicting literal lolita image. It is like her whole image is decided by old, white, pervy men.
https://shop.universalmusic.it/products/sabrina-carpenter-mans-best-friend-picture-disc-esclusivo
She reminds me of Betty Boop.
But at 26, she’s passed the Lolita stage and she did celebrate her birthday by saying that she’d no longer be on Leo DiCaprio’s radar.
I mean, yeah, she is a grown woman. Still, she is perpetuating the lolita image. It is on the link I shared, very similar to one of the images from the movie. It isn’t even the first time her team did that. There was another image of her similar in pose and dress. I don’t believe a 26-year old woman is deciding on these images. It is a weirdo old man thing.
Are Gen-Z criticizing her or just “people?” Is simply commenting and making an observation being confused with outrage?
I figure Gen Z actually enjoy her music— otherwise, how else would she be popular? I can’t really see older people gravitating towards her music unless you’re listening to FM radio in the car and can’t find anything else to listen to.
I don’t get the outrage at the cover.
Her cover. Her choice. And I support that choice. People are gone like it or not. Or really hate it. I’m outraged by the people, men and women, voting to take away people’s rights to choose. DJT, the SC, and Riley Gaines are on my outrage list today.
This reminds me of the satire This is Spinal Tap by Rob Reiner. A hilarious Fran Dreshowitz tries to explain to the dim-witted band why their wildly sexist album cover would not be released. They don’t understand at all. Finally the album comes out, with a pure black cover, with no words identifying the band.
Having said that, I still don’t like this cover, instinctively. However she meant it, and she may have the right intentions, this just rubs me the wrong way. It also reminds me of the last page of Ms. Magazine (oh yeah, I’m dating myself) titled No Comment of outlandishly sexist images/words involving women. So that’s my generation.
The cover reminds me of the outrageously sexist one of the band in This is Spinal Tap. Satire or not, I do not enjoy the image.
I also immediately thought of the pushback against Katy Perry. I don’t see how this is any different, why are we trying to excuse carpenter? Just because people like her better? There is no subversiveness here.
This disturbs me. I want for every woman to be elevated, not debased. Don’t care about the meaning intended, I care about the image I see.
Since I can’t unsee her as the girl who was on Girl Meets World, I can’t take her seriously even though she’s probably not untalented in music. I would have never guessed her real dream was to be like Madonna, but without the edge?
It’s Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove in real life!
“It’s sexist!” … “Wut’s wrong wit’ bein’ sexy????”
It’s kind of Bettie Page but Bettie was dominating women by spanking them or the reversal being spanked and tied up by women…that was provocative for the male gaze. I don’t take Sabrina seriously as an artist, more of a flash in the pan with an expiration date. This image doesn’t elevate her or women in anyway. It’s a dangerous time for female empowerment and I fear this takes us way back. There is already a war against women, why give men more ammunition? It’s ultimately reckless, careless and irresponsible. But again, she means nothing but fluff to me, not to be taken seriously…if that’s what she wants to portray, fame is fleeting.
I just think it’s a bad picture lol. I’m guessing her hand is supposed to be on the man’s leg but it just looks like it’s free floating in space from that angle? I don’t care if it’s feminist or not, if it caters to the male gaze or if Sabrina is doing some kind of ironic take on something.
I know Taylor Swift’s recent cover art for Tortured Poets was the sexiest we’ve seen Taylor do–wearing lingerie and posing on a bed, some very intimate black and white photos of her. But they were tasteful, it was just her in the picture and no one else and you felt very much she owned those photos.
“She’s not a feminist icon and I don’t believe she’s ever claimed any kind of feminist mantle.” Which is why I’m confused to why ppl are so upset. She never said she was a man hating feminist so, who cares? The whole discourse around her is silly to me. If a woman dates and is attracted to men then ofc she’s not going to be some type of man hater lmao.
Feminists aren’t man haters. Can’t believe I even have to type that.
Thank u bc what? I’m not clutching my pearls over this image. But some of this discourse is something. Feminists are not man haters and you can also date men and be attracted to them and still find some of them to be repulsive. JD Vance and DT come to mind.
I just see it as ‘titillating’ but I am not the demographic they are targeting. When I was 25 Madonna was peddling her Sex Book. She was naked on every page. Now that was X-Rated.
So….I am not exactly clutching my pearls over this.
This is the first Sabrina Carpenter album cover I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t know anything about it if I hadn’t seen it here. I usually like the sound of her songs when I’m listening to pop-type channels on Sirius in the car.
I do think it’s a little weird the man is holding her hair like that. Even if she looked over 35, it would still look weird.
That said, her songs better be good if she’s going to be played on repeat on the radio while I’m driving. I feel I was forced to learn how to like Espresso.
My nine-year-old daughter really likes her songs. They are not appropriate for her age and neither is this cover. Sorry, I can’t get behind any woman who wants to call herself a dog and appear degraded in public. Do whatever you want but I wouldn’t buy that album.
It’s not pearl clutching – She needs better advisors. I like her very much, but this is off. Timing is terrible. Read the room! Etc. The songs better be really really good.
Although it did remind me of this: It’s 1982!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOSAumt6YF4
Parents gotta parent. Don’t buy the album for your child, don’t bring your child to her concerts, don’t let them be exposed to sexist nonsense on youtube. While I’m on my pedestal, don’t allow your children to go on discord, or use minecraft, or roblox, or any other playground for predators. Sabrina Carpenter is an adult who performs for adults.