Sabrina Carpenter revealed an alternate cover Wednesday for her new album “Man’s Best Friend,” quipping on social media that it’s “approved by God.”
The alternate cover, which is a black-and-white photo of the singer standing close to a man in a suit, is much more tame than the original, which shows Carpenter on her hands and knees while someone in a suit tugs on her hair.
After Carpenter unveiled the original cover earlier this month, some claimed it was anti-feminist. The New York Times wrote that discussing it was a “trap,” adding it’s a “pornographic image” and it returns society to a “pre-#MeToo world.”
After someone on social media asked if Carpenter had a personality outside of sex, Carpenter responded, “Girl yes and it is goooooood.”
Singing about sex has gained Carpenter attention in the last few years. During concerts when she performed her song “Nonsense,” she would improvise horny outros, like “Can you warm me up? I’m super chilly / I’m a bank account boy, you should fill me / You know I got special love for Philly.”
“I feel like I’ve learned a lot more about sexuality through writing [the outros] than people think,” Carpenter told Cosmopolitan in 2024. “I think people think I’m just obnoxiously horny when in reality, writing them comes from the ability to not be fearful of your sexuality as opposed to just not being able to put it down.”
Carpenter continued the sexual moments during her Short n’ Sweet tour last year. When she performed “Juno,” Carpenter posed in a different sex position each night. Videos of the moment from each tour stop would often go viral.
“It’s always so funny to me when people complain,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone earlier this month. “They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this.’ But those are the songs that you’ve made popular. Clearly you love sex. You’re obsessed with it. It’s in my show. There’s so many more moments than the ‘Juno’ positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can’t control that. If you come to the show, you’ll [also] hear the ballads, you’ll hear the more introspective numbers. I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme. I’m not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes.”
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