“It was just, like, it’s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents,” she said of the Man’s Best Friend artwork
Maybe some of y’all just need to touch grass. In a new interview with CBS Mornings, Sabrina Carpenter addressed the backlash she received to her first round of cover artwork for Man’s Best Friend.
“Y’all need to get out more, I think,” she told Gayle King. “Between me and my friends and my family and the people that I always share my music and my art with first, it just wasn’t even a conversation… It was just, like, it’s perfect for what the album is, and what it represents.”
Carpenter said that everything about the cover was “so opposite of the world ending.”
When asked by King about the controversy and her own interpretation of the cover art, Carpenter said she interpreted it as “being in on the control, being in on your lack of control, and when you want to be in control.”
“As a young woman, you’re just aware of when you’re in control as when you’re not… For me, this whole album was about the humanity of allowing yourself to make those mistakes, knowing when you’re putting yourself in a situation that will probably end up poorly,” she said. “But it’s going to teach you something, so there were a lot of different meanings.”
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Carpenter said she heard a lot of the criticism as “pointing fingers” without an understanding of her artistry. “My parents actually loved the photo and they loved it,” she said.
Carpenter released Man’s Best Friend on Friday, featuring songs such as “My Man on Willpower,” “Sugar Talking,” and “When Did You Get Hot?”
