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The Star
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
Sabrina Carpenter addresses 'Man's Best Friend' album art backlash
The Grammy-winning singer debuted the album art last week for the Aug 29 release of 'Man's Best Friend'. Photo: Handout Sabrina Carpenter is breaking her silence on her controversial new album cover that has displeased some fans. The Grammy-winning Espresso crooner, 26, debuted the album art last week for the Aug 29 release of Man's Best Friend, which shows the Disney Channel alum on her knees in a short black dress and matching stilettos as a man pulls her signature blonde tresses. Her post is restricted on Instagram for users 18 and over. 'Does she have a personality out side of sex?' asked one disgruntled X user. 'Girl yes and it is goooooood,' responded the Please, Please, Please singer, whose tongue-in-cheek lyrics and Short n' Sweet tour often delve into the sexually explicit. Those on X weren't alone in criticising the art, which Glasgow Women's Aid decried as 'regressive' and less 'subversion' than promoting 'tired stereotypes of women.' The day after making the album art public, fashion photographer David LaChapelle's nude portrait of Carpenter made waves as the cover of Rolling Stone's Summer Double Issue. 'It's always so funny to me when people complain,' Carpenter told the magazine. 'They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular. Clearly you love sex. You're obsessed with it.' Though the show is full of innuendo and sexually charged choreography, Carpenter said there are also 'ballads' and 'the more introspective numbers. 'I find irony and humour in all of that. … I'm not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes,' she continued, adding later that she feels 'like I've never lived in a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinised in every capacity'. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
CMOs at Cannes 2025: Balancing creativity, data, and consumer connection
What does it take to be a Chief Marketing Officer in 2025? The 'CMOs in the Spotlight' series at Cannes Lions 2025 provided some compelling answers. The popular session brought together top brand leaders, Claudine Cheever, VP, Global Brand and Marketing, Amazon, Gülen Bengi, lead chief marketing officer, Mars; and Gail Horwood, chief marketing and customer experience Officer, Novartis, moderated by Jim Stengel, host of The CMO Podcast with Jim Stengel, The Jim Stengel Company. They dissected today's most challenging marketing issues and shared their vision for the future, highlighting the critical interplay of creativity, technology, and genuine connection. Bengi, highlighted the company's transformation journey, focusing on a new approach to brand building. 'We are moving from messaging to two-way engagement,' said Bengi, emphasising co-creation with communities and building ongoing, personalised experiences. Mars has restructured its brand teams by integrating data analytics, digital capabilities, and human insight placing the consumer truly at the heart. Horwood, shared her pride in the company's intentional focus on creativity despite regulatory hurdles. 'We focused on what we can do, not what we can't,' she explained, referencing their award-shortlisted campaign Your Attention, Please, which tackles breast cancer awareness. This initiative includes a unique partnership with the NFL—demonstrating how creativity can thrive even in highly regulated sectors. Cheever, reflected on the company's global-local balance. 'We're making Prime a global brand while staying locally relevant,' she said. She cited a notable holiday campaign that harnessed AI to mine millions of customer reviews for comedic gems, brought to life by actor Adam Driver. Cheever credited the blend of creativity and technology as critical to the campaign's success. Stengel encouraged the panel to consider Cannes not only as a celebration but as a space for reflection. The CMOs agreed on the value of flexibility, collaboration, and intentional pauses. As Bengi advised, 'See something unexpected. Be flexible.' Cheever, with nine years at Amazon, highlighted the company's deeply ingrained corporate culture rooted in creativity, risk-taking, and experimentation. "If you know it's going to succeed, it's not an experiment," she stated, underscoring the importance of providing a "safe space" for teams to make mistakes. Cheever explained Amazon's concept of "two-way doors" versus "one-way doors," encouraging quick decisions for reversible actions. For her, fostering creativity within the culture means delegating decision-making, enabling speed, and getting out of the way. She proudly noted that she no longer reviews content for Amazon's vast out-of-home network , considering her involvement a "defect." Her ideal scenario is when a team confidently takes ownership, reducing the need for her oversight and building courage throughout the organisation. Bengi expressed Mars' fortune in having curiosity as a core cultural tenet, where creativity is deeply cherished. While leveraging the legacy of iconic brands built by past generations, Bengi acknowledged that the world has changed, transforming "creative" from a title for a select few into a "verb for everyone" within their culture. She believes good ideas can emerge from anywhere and must be approached with a mindset of learning, iteration, and scaling. Mars achieves this through what they call "learning journeys," such as immersing teams in new technologies. They've expanded their partner ecosystem beyond traditional collaborators to include tech giants like AWS and visionary entrepreneurs. Bengi champions an "iteration to scale" mindset, where there are no failures or successes, only continuous iterations aimed at solving the right consumer problems, a fundamental part of their brand-building culture. Horwood emphatically stated that at Novartis, their company culture begins with purpose, drawing people to healthcare with the shared mission of "reimagining medicine together" to help others live better lives. She stressed, "the culture is us," highlighting that their culture isn't defined by one person but is a collective strength. Novartis actively enables this by encouraging every associate to contribute to their shared vision for creativity, which is not optional but multifaceted. Participation can range from workshops and trips to agency shadowing. Horwood underlined the significance of allowing associates to reflect on what's important to them within this shared mission, reinforcing that while frameworks exist, the principle of "the culture is us" remains the most important aspect of their organisational ethos.
Daily Mirror
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Sabrina Carpenter angers fans with 'submissive' album cover art
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. READ MORE: Sabrina Carpenter in savage dig at ex Barry Keoghan as fans come to same conclusion 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". Help us improve our content by completing the survey below. We'd love to hear from you! 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.
Irish Examiner
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Sabrina Carpenter announces new album Man's Best Friend
US pop star Sabrina Carpenter has announced she will be releasing a new album called Man's Best Friend later in the summer. It comes after the 26-year-old singer from Pennsylvania released a new single titled Manchild last week. The record is to be released a year and a week after she dropped her chart-topping sixth studio album Short N' Sweet, which contains the number one hits Espresso, Taste and Please, Please, Please. In a message to fans, she said: 'My new album Man's Best Friend releases Aug 29 I didn't plan on releasing a new record however when inspiration strikes, I go to the studio, and when it doesn't, I still go to the studio. 'But luckily life was really happening to me and inspiration struck! 'I tried not to overthink the process this time, I felt so at ease making Man's Best Friend that I felt like it was a gift that shouldn't be taken for granted as every inch came together so effortlessly, different from my other previous projects where I'd bang my head to crack numerous codes. 'This one felt like riding a bike! I went back to some of my favourite artists growing up listening to a lot of Stevie, Dolly, Donna etc and was surprised to find so many of those artists I loved put out a new record every year for a long time. 'Can't say that is or will be the norm for me but this time it really eased my mind about putting something out when it feels right!' Sabrina Carpenter after winning the Global Success award during The BRIT Awards 2025 at London's O2 Arena (Lucy North/PA) Her music videos have seen appearances from a number of famous faces including Dublin actor Barry Keoghan in Please, Please, Please. The Saltburn actor was romantically linked to Carpenter in late 2023, but they were reported to have split late last year. Carpenter is due to headline Hyde Park's British Summer Time festival (BST) this July where she will be joined by special guests including Clairo and Olivia Dean across two performances. Man's Best Friend will be released on August 29.
RTÉ News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Sabrina Carpenter announces new album Man's Best Friend
US pop star Sabrina Carpenter has announced she will be releasing a new album called Man's Best Friend later in the summer. It comes after the 26-year-old singer from Pennsylvania released a new single titled Manchild last week. The record is to be released a year and a week after she dropped her chart-topping sixth studio album Short N' Sweet, which contains the number one hits Espresso, Taste and Please, Please, Please. In a message to fans, she said: "My new album Man's Best Friend releases Aug 29 I didn't plan on releasing a new record however when inspiration strikes, I go to the studio, and when it doesn't, I still go to the studio. "But luckily life was really happening to me and inspiration struck! "I tried not to overthink the process this time, I felt so at ease making Man's Best Friend t hat I felt like it was a gift that shouldn't be taken for granted as every inch came together so effortlessly, different from my other previous projects where I'd bang my head to crack numerous codes. "This one felt like riding a bike! I went back to some of my favourite artists growing up listening to a lot of Stevie, Dolly, Donna etc and was surprised to find so many of those artists I loved put out a new record every year for a long time. "Can't say that is or will be the norm for me but this time it really eased my mind about putting something out when it feels right!" According to the Official Charts Company the singer is the first female artist in history to score both the UK's number one album and single simultaneously, while holding all three top positions on the singles chart with Taste at number one, Please Please Please at number two, and Espresso at number three. Late last year her catchy pop track Espresso was named the biggest song of 2024 by BBC Radio 1 and in April the Official Charts Company said Short N' Sweet was one of the UK's biggest album of 2025 so far. Her music videos have seen appearances from a number of famous faces including Irish actor Barry Keoghan in Please, Please, Please. The Saltburn actor was romantically linked to Carpenter in late 2023, but they were reported to have split late last year.
