Short n ‘ sweet pop star Sabrina Carpenter addressed the widespread controversy over her “anti-feminist” album cover on Saturday Night Live – but with a cheeky twist
Pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter put to bed some “misconceptions” around her album cover controversy on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL).
As a first-time host of SNL, the Grammy winner decided to address the backlash around her photo cover for her latest album, Man’s Best Friend – but with an on-brand cheeky twist.
The cover showed the singer all-fours getting her hair pulled by a man in a suit, and sent shockwaves online when it was first released with her album announcement back in June.
While some considered the cover to be perfectly in line with the 26-year-old’s tongue-in-cheek branding, others found the photo, shot by Bryce Anderson, to be offensive and degrading towards women – even labelling the star a “bad feminist” for how she chose to depict her sexuality.
In response to the backlash, Sabrina released an alternate album artwork, which she said was “approved by God”. The new image showed her holding onto the arm of a suited man instead, which was decisively less provocative than the original.
However, on SNL, the pop singer decided to address the Internet kerfuffle once more. “Some people got a little freaked out by the cover,” she began, making reference to fan concerns that the image was anti-feminist. “I’m not sure why? It was just this: me on all fours, with an unseen figure pulling my hair.”
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She continued: “But what people don’t realize is that’s just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it’s clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen]Yang] helping me up by the hair — after Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line, saying something like, ‘ Daddy need his mini quiche. ‘”
However, the jokes didn’t stop there. Espresso singer also added she wanted to “clear up some misconceptions” about her public persona.
“Everyone thinks of me as this horned-up pop star, but there’s really so much more to me”, she said. “I’m not just horny. I’m also turned-on, and I’m sexually charged, and I love to read. My favourite book is the encyclopaedia. It’s so big, and it’s hard”.
Online, the reaction to the sketch has been mostly positive, with commenters on X praising her for being a “natural” on the comedy show. “I love how she refuses to give proper explanation for this album cover, she’s very funny”, another wrote.
Source: Mirror
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