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Sabrina Carpenter Innocent?
The album cover for Man’s Best Friend plays into her game of self-objectification.
A new Carpenter album ought to be, on its face, a good thing: “Espresso” sat comfortably on the charts last year, her tour was an often viral success, and her appearance on SNL 50 with Paul Simon cemented her as the type of pop star who can hang with the legends. Though she tells Rolling Stone that “every female artist” making music is under a more watchful eye right now, what the hullabaloo around her work calls to mind is Miley Cyrus’s coming-of-age discomfort around Bangerz. Eager to shed a child-star mentality, Cyrus — who shares Disney roots with Carpenter — went all out, barely clothed, in innuendo-laden pop songs that defiantly pushed against who people thought her to be.
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