Sabrina Carpenter at the Brit Awards earlier this year

We all know by now that Miss Sabrina Carpenter isn’t a stranger to a risqué moment or two.

The US pop star has soared through the charts and shot to main girl pop status over the past few years, thanks to her 2024 album Short N’ Sweet, which featured the number one hits Espresso, Please Please Please and Taste.

Since the album’s release, Sabrina has gone viral on more than one occasion thanks to her cheeky on-stage innuendos, from her racy outfits and choreo to mimicking a different sexual position each night of her most recent tour during the song Juno.

Her NSFW antics even sparked a flurry of Ofcom complaints this year in light of her suggestive Brit Awards performance, during which she suggestively crouched down in front of a winking backup dancer (who happened to be dressed as a royal guard).

Now, she seems to have split the internet right down the middle after releasing the cover for her new album Man’s Best Friend, which follows the new single Manchild.

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The cover depicts Sabrina on her knees in a black mini dress and a pair of stilettos, while a man just out of frame grips strands of her long blonde hair.

A second picture shared with the announcement shows the album tiel engraved onto a baby blue dog collar.

While Sabrina has long embraced her sexuality and championed female empowerment, some feel this cover doesn’t quite land right, especially in the current political climate, with some worrying the (presumably satirical) message could get lost in the mix.

I understand that sabrina carpenter’s new album cover is supposed to be a satirical/tongue in cheek way to highlight how poorly women are treated by men in society but the men who are going to see and engage with it are too stupid and porn pilled to extract that nuance from it pic.twitter.com/Usn6NDxrNc

Pretending to be this hyper-aware, feminist, anti-male figure, while your entire artistic identity still revolves around seeking male approval and being desirable to them is… a........

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