Overview
- Sabrina Carpenter tells Variety the cover was meant to reflect feeling “emotionally yanked around” and to comment on attempts to control women.
- She says differing reactions to the image are valid, adding that some critiques raised “great points” even if they were not her intended message.
- After the June backlash, she shared an alternative cover on Instagram, joking it was “approved by God,” while insisting she wasn’t capitulating to critics.
- Positioning her current persona as deliberate growth beyond her Disney past, she emphasizes personal boundaries and the heavy use of sarcasm in her lyrics.
- Despite the controversy, the album debuted at No. 1 and earned multiple Grammy nominations, and her week included condemning a White House immigration-raids video that used her song, prompting a sharply worded response from a spokeswoman.