{"id":105471,"date":"2025-08-30T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105471\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:02:07","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-responds-to-mans-best-friend-cover-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105471\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter Responds to &#8216;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8217; Cover Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was just, like, it\u2019s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents,&#8221; she said of the Man&#8217;s Best Friend artwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMaybe some of y\u2019all just need to touch grass. In a new interview with CBS Mornings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sabrina-carpenter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sabrina-carpenter\" data-tag=\"sabrina-carpenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> addressed the backlash she received to her first round of cover artwork for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sabrina-carpenter-album-mans-best-friend-listen-1235418163\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man\u2019s Best Friend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cY\u2019all need to get out more, I think,\u201d she told Gayle King.  \u201cBetween me and my friends and my family and the people that I always share my music and my art with first, it just wasn\u2019t even a conversation\u2026 It was just, like, it\u2019s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter said that everything about the cover was \u201cso opposite of the world ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen asked by King about the controversy and her own interpretation of the cover art, Carpenter said she interpreted it as\u00a0\u201cbeing in on the control, being in on your lack of control, and when you want to be in control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAs a young woman, you\u2019re just aware of when you\u2019re in control as when you\u2019re not\u2026 For me, this whole album was about the humanity of allowing yourself to make those mistakes, knowing when you\u2019re putting yourself in a situation that will probably end up poorly,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s going to teach you something, so there were a lot of different meanings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter said she heard a lot of the criticism as \u201cpointing fingers\u201d without an understanding of her artistry. \u201cMy parents actually loved the photo and they loved it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCarpenter released Man\u2019s Best Friend on Friday, featuring songs such as \u201cMy Man on Willpower,\u201d \u201cSugar Talking,\u201d and \u201cWhen Did You Get Hot?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was just, like, it\u2019s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents,&#8221; she said of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,19816],"class_list":{"0":"post-105471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-sabrina-carpenter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}