
Sabrina Carpenter is no stranger to making playful innuendos that send jaws dropping. The Grammy winner did it with her first NSFW "Nonsense" outro, during the "Please Please Please" music video, and on-stage with one "Juno" position after another. This is classic Carpenter conduct: tongue-in-cheek lyrics, campy corsets and négligées, all catered toward the female gaze. But on June 11, she outdid herself.
Less than one year after Short n' Sweet debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 charts, Carpenter announced the forthcoming August 29 release of her new album, Man's Best Friend. The moment she shared the album cover, it immediately started a capital-D discourse online. With help from her stylist, Jared Ellner, Carpenter posed on all fours in an archival Dolce & Gabbana little black dress and sky-high pumps, while an unidentified man pulled her by her blonde bombshell hair.