Sabrina Carpenter has ruffled the feathers of the world's most devout disciples: no, not the Swifties (more on them in a bit), but the Catholic Church, cleverly clapping back at a recent controversy with the religious institution. The 24-year-old singer and actress (we're still thinking about her character's abrupt ending on Emergency last year) has been spending much of the year as the rainbow-bright opener for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. Still, in between those sold-out stadium stops, Carpenter managed to gain the attention of the church. It was due to a provocative music video for her song "Feather," the latest song off her July 2022 album, Emails I Can’t Send, to get the video treatment.
The video, which dropped on October 31, 2023, was a gory display fit for Halloween, showing the songstress cheerfully facilitating the deaths of several men as penance for their catcalling, mansplaining and generally obnoxious nature. So exactly why did the bloody scene cause such an uproar with the church, and how did Carpenter respond to the Catholic controversy? Let's talk it out.
