💿 Sabrina Carpenter's New Album Cover Cops Backlash

People are calling it "degrading" and "disgusting".

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What about Sabrina carp Well, let's talk about Sabrina Carpen
and one of the most popular singers in the world.
And her image is interesting because she looks so beautiful.
She looks like a Disney princess, and yet her lyrics
do have a slight edge to them. Her last album
was called Short and Sweet, and there's a picture of
her looking beautiful looking over his shoulder with like lipstick
mark on a shoulder, like the big kiss on her shoulder,

(00:25):
and she performs. She's one of those performers that wears
no pants, you know, like a lea tis a very
daggy word for it, but like, you know, the Taylor
Swift kind of outfit with.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Just the legs out. That's the look.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now, no pants is the look. She's got a new
album out, it's called man I'll get to the title
of the album in a second, because this is what's
interesting about the album cover. She's got a new single
called man Child. So she doesn't mind a bit of

(01:01):
a swear and a bit of a swag.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It doesn't sound like it's right for sweat.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
So, as I said, her songs, you know, have some attitude.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Her songs have attitude.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
To them, but it's the album cover that has upset
a lot of her fans and had them questioning what
she's doing this album cover. Let me describe it for you.
You may have seen pictures of it. She's on all
fours and you just see a man's legs and he's
pulling her up by the hair. She's in a mini

(01:31):
dress with high heels, and her hair, as they say,
is being held by an unknown man in a suit.
It spark debate as to whether the image is ironic
or misogynistic. Lots of people aren't happy. Her fans are saying,
I don't want to see no man dragging you around
by your hair, mother, Please get up. That's what I
imagine the voices that goes with that. So in the past,

(01:51):
I mean she's played into the ultra feminist feminized persona
yep before as I said, but often undercuts it and
about being how females are treated and in.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Relationships, et cetera. Does that and doesn't wear pants.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, so you wonder if they saying that this celebrates
her sexuality and power over men. But her hair is
being pulled up, it looks like she's being subjugated, but
happily so. Because she's got a complicit look on her face.
It's overtly uncomfortable. And I guess that's the point I
just SCRAMed.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Spinal Tap to me. Is anyone online saying spinal Tap.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I haven't seen a single thing, but you and I
both thought album comes So she's doing it to be
ironic like spinal Tap. Well we better explain what the
spinal Tap reference is. This was the band's Spinal Tap,
who were a satirical band. As you know, they wanted
to release an album that had a very similar.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Listen. They don't like the cover. They don't like that's
they find it very offensive. But what exactly do you
find offensive? A greased naked woman on all fours with
a door color around her now and a leash and
a man's arm extended out up to here, holding on

(03:05):
to the leash and pushing a black glove in her
face to sniff it. You don't find that offensive. You
don't find that Sexist's nineteen eighty two. That's right, I'm
nineteen eighty two. Get out of the sixties. We don't
have this mentality anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do,
and I love when he takes it to the band.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm not going to release the album because they have
decided to cover is sexist.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
We'll show why. What's wrong with being sexy?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, there's no sexual sexiftist?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Maybe it's homage the spinal tap.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, you know, if you wanted to do that, I'd
be totally fine. You'd have to be on all fours. Yeah,
that's what amazing. That's what I'm talking about, greased up,
all fours, no worries.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
And the difference with you is you'd have no attitude
about it. You're just doing it for the for the

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Loulls, doing it for the clicks man, Yeah, doing it
for the clicks.