Sabrina Carpenter has angered fans after she released her new album cover art for her upcoming album Man’s Best Friend, as many are left shocked by her new submissive image
Sabrina Carpenter’s new album cover art for her upcoming project Man’s Best Friend has left fans confused at the “submissive” message it implied. Whilst the star is widely known to have a sarcastic sense of humour and sexual innuendos – shown on-stage during her X-rated 2025 BRIT Awards performance – but the album’s cover art has left many fans asking if she’s gone too far.
Sabrina is portrayed as a submissive woman on the cover and is shown crawling on hands and knees as a male figure grabs her infamous locks.
The artwork sparked a wave of backlash as many fans took to TikTok to vent about the “uncomfortable” nature of the former Disney star’s image, questioning why female popstars are pushing a hyper-sexualised narrative.
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One Sabrina fan has gained over 500,000 views on TikTok for questioning Sabrina’s posing in the album artwork. They reference Sydney Sweeney, who was recently embroiled in a bathwater scandal, where the Hollywood actress posed in a bathtub to advertise her new product – a bar of soap that contained drops of her bathwater.
The creator @ddiva444 said: “Seeing this alongside the Sydney Sweeney stuff and Bonnie Blue’s petting zoo, I just really have to question what on earth is going on at the moment?”
Admitting to being a fan of Carpenter’s music, she shared how she loved Sabrina’s previous album, Short n’ Sweet, because songs like Please, Please, Please and Espresso “poked fun at a lot of the stuff that women experience.”
“But this? Like literally being on your hands and knees, a man holding you by your hair and titling your album Man’s Best Friend… I’m just not sure what to think of it,” the creator said.
Left with a bitter taste from the image, she went on: “I just don’t think this is a good image that we should be preaching”. Receiving 51,000 likes, other users ran to the comments to share their comments in agreement, with one writing: “FINALLY people are talking about this. Her rebrand hypersexualising herself for the male gaze is setting us so far back.”
Another wrote: “It’s so regressive and lowkey degrading, definitely promotes the wrong idea to the wrong people”.
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Interestingly, a third user wrote: “I’m so sick of white, rich women exploiting the concept of choice feminism – whether it’s her, Sydney Sydney Sweeney, Bonnie Blue – they have created this really disgusting and damaging narrative. Women sexuality being presented isn’t negative but they monopolise the male gaze because they are capitalists and ‘sex sells’ but its so disgusting”.
Their strong statement ended by insisting, “women are not objects and their world doesn’t revolve [around] men’s pleasure but that’s the message these women spread”.
A fourth user suggested the singer “acts like she’s poking fun but, at the same time, she’s pandering to those toxic norms”. The 26-year-old pop singer is yet to comment on the unhappy reception of Man’s Best Friend.
Man’s Best Friend will be released on August 29, 2025. Sabrina shared the announcement on Instagram, with the caption: “I can’t wait for it to be yours x” in the caption. This comes after the release of her song and music video Manchild.