Controversial cover creates debate • Store owner: Glad I don’t have children
Sabrina Carpenter’s new cover for the album “Man’s Best Friend” raises strong reactions. In the picture, the artist stands on all fours, wearing a short dress and heel shoes, while a suit -clad person pulls her in the hair. Many believe that the cover is both sexist and degrading.
“This cover makes me uncomfortable, especially in these times. Incredibly tone,” writes a person in the artist’s comment field on Instagram.
“Explain to me how this is not about putting men at the center? How this does not appeal to the male look?”, Writes another.
“Thank you for adapting women’s rights several steps back,” writes a third.
Refusing to sell the album
Someone who agrees with the criticism is the record store owner Jörgen Nilsson, who P4 Kristianstad First reported. He refuses to sell the album in his record store compact disk in Kristianstad.
– I think it’s a woman’s degrading. It’s not about censorship, it’s about having a really heavy audience. It’s so fucking unnecessary, he tells TV4 News.
Jörgen talks about a father to an 11-year-old boy who heard from him.
– He called me and said he does everything he can to give the son as good a view of women as possible. Then such a cover does not work, says the shop owner and continues:
– I am glad that I do not have children myself and need to explain what it is about.
“Can sleep well at night”
Jörgen Nilsson has contacted Sabrina Carpenter’s record label Universal, but expects no answer. He hopes, on the other hand, that more record stores are walking in the same footsteps and stops selling the album.
– It doesn’t really matter to anyone that I don’t sell the record, but I can sleep well at night anyway, says Jörgen.
At the same time, there are voices that nuance the disputed cover. Columnist Irena Pozar writes in Aftonbladet That it is “fully understandable” that the picture arouses strong emotions.
“But using an image for an album that we so far know very little about to call Carpenter too dangerous, man -supplemented, sexist and disturbed is ridiculous,” she writes.
Many fans also defend the cover of “Man’s Best Friend”, which will be released on August 29, and thinks it is satire.