After obtaining a Grammy award for best vocal pop album and to achieve world -fame with songs such as Espresso and Please, please, pleaseAmerican singer Sabrina Carpenter announced the arrival of her seventh studio album. With that announcement, he shared an advance on the cover of the album, which generated a stir on the Internet.
The album, entitled Man’s Best Friend (Man’s best friend), will go on sale on August 29. Your first single, Manchildhas accumulated almost 20 million views in six days. In it, Carpenter shows a more sensual facet and continues to explore new styles, as he did in his previous production, Short N ‘Sweet.
Inspired by the aesthetics of the 1980s, the artist seeks to reaffirm her visual and musical identity with film references, as in her subject Taste. On this occasion, he winks the film starring Ally Sheedy and Lance Henriksen in 1993, according to Cadena 100.
The controversy arose following the cover image of the new album. In it, the singer appears on the knees on the ground, in a sensual pose, while a man takes hair, alluding to the title Man’s best friend. Next to this image, a dog also appears with a necklace that is named after the album.
The cover has generated controversy on social networks. One of the most critical pronouncements came from the Glasgow Women’s Aid organization, which expressed:
“The cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s new album is not daring, it is retrograde. Imagine on all fours, with a man throwing her hair and calling him ‘The best friend of man’, it is not subversion.”
For this association, the image resorts to “Trillad clichés that reduce women to pets, accessories and possessions, and promote an element of violence and control”, which, they affirm, transmits a misogynist message.
To the controversy, hundreds of users have been added on social networks, divided between those who criticize the image and those who defend it as an artistic expression.
So far, the artist has not spoken about the controversy. However, before the announcement of the album, he had commented to his followers: “He did not plan to launch something new, but when the inspiration comes, I go to the studio … and when he does not arrive, I also go to the studio. Fortunately, many things were happening to me in life and I got inspiration!”
Carpenter also stressed that, for this album, he tried not to overcome the creative process: “Every centimeter of this album joined effortlessly. Unlike my previous projects, he felt like bicycle to ride,” he told the EFE agency.