Sabrina Carpenter breaks with pop clichés and sets his own standards

Expectations depend on pop stars. They should be a model and projection surface, as undisguised as possible and clearly at the same time. The singer Sabrina Carpenter knows that this is impossible: “I have the feeling that women have never been examined as much as now.”

Hardly anything in the pop world has recently been discussed as much as about Carpenter’s album “Man’s Best Friend” – because of the cover. She kneels in a short black dress in front of a man in a suit who holds a strand of her blond hair in her hand. Too lascivious, even unfeminist If this representation is that Carpenter would “normalize violence” and “embrace women”, the comment columns of social media said.

But if you hear the album, you will quickly notice: everything is not even half as wild. Carpenter’s songs are about men who have disappointed. She sings her with an irony that you already know from her most successful album so far. This called her “Short N ‘Sweet” to match her size of 1.52 meters, and it sounded like a episode of “Sex and the City “. Happy and mappen she spread her love life on it. She blushed into the lingerie and flashing corsets. Sometimes she wanted to appear like Marilyn Monroe, then she sparked her appearances with references to Madonna’s” Material Girl “.Situation hip“-Life.

For this, Carpenter not only received praise: whether it was serious to present herself “yesterday”, she was asked about her stage show, which was perceived by some parents in the United States. Carpenter reacted casually to the criticism of her hit “Juno”, in which she illustrated sex positions (“Have you ever tried it?”). She said, “Obviously her sex loves. You are obsessed with it.”

Carpenter does not come as profound and dramatic as Billie Eilish, and of course the Internet always looks for controversy that can be discussed. Carpenter understood that provocation pays off. Perhaps because she thought early about how she could make a career.

Sabrina Carpenter came in 1999 in QuacertownPennsylvania, to the world. In 2014 she was given by the Disney series “Girl Meets World “known in the United States. She published her debut album” Eyes Wide Open “almost at the same time. The international breakthrough achieved her in 2024, also fueled by the fact that as an opener for Taylor Swift at her”Eras“Tour appeared. The album” Short N ‘Sweet “won two Grammys and was streamed on Spotify more than 8.2 billion times.

With “Man’s Best Friend” your first album is coming to you status a superstar. Carpenter is the new “Queen of Pop “. The old queen, Taylor Swift, processed relationships and ex-partners in her songs for a long time. Swift now thinks that Travis Kelce has found the man of her life.

On the new album, Carpenter also sings about how she felt alone after a separation and drowned her sadness into alcohol. Whether your ex-friends Shawn Mendes or Barry Keoghan should feel addressed?

It would have expected even more snappy texts that do justice to the strategic-provocative cover. Although she is a successful and emancipated woman, Carpenter faces a problem that many women are exposed to: the discrepancy between self -determined sexuality and the urge to want to fall. According to her texts, she has a penchant for emotionally immature men. “I swear, you choose me,” she sings on “Man“.

Carpenter has never stylized herself as a flagship feminist, but rather was made by the inclined public. Understandably, people long for feminist role models in times of a US government who supposedly runs Woke. But at Carpenter, they are probably at the wrong address. Although she reveals patriarchal patterns, it also submits to them. This ambivalence is particularly interesting.

It can optionally discover a clever game with stereotypes – or the banal longing for confirmation. What is certain is that Sabrina Carpenter has understood that Pop has the greatest effect if he confronts us with our own contradictions.