After sparking widespread discourse with her controversial Man’s Best Friend album cover, Sabrina Carpenter has unveiled another version of the LP’s artwork for an exclusive vinyl — and it’s only available for a limited time.
Premiering the alternate cover Tuesday (July 8) on Instagram, the pop star revealed that the special edition is available to pre-order now on her website. The artwork features Carpenter modeling lingerie and lounging in a chic room while surrounded by bouquets of flowers, presumably sent to her by a number of suitors. In her hand, she holds a card with the initials “M. B. F.”
The cover accompanies a special dusty rose vinyl, which can be purchased on Carpenter’s website.
The new product comes about a month after the pop star first announced that her upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, would arrive this August. She also unveiled its primary cover art, which features Carpenter down on all fours as a man holds her in place by gripping a fistful of her hair.
The sensual image immediately divided people online, with some fans calling it empowering while critics deemed it offensive, regressive or anti-feminist. Shortly afterward, Carpenter debuted a secondary cover that she joked had been “approved by God,” featuring the Girl Meets World alum channeling Marilyn Monroe in a black-and-white photo of herself leaning on a suited male companion.
Man’s Best Friend will drop almost exactly a year after Carpenter released breakthrough album Short n’ Sweet, which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. So far, fans have only gotten to hear one song from the new record — “Manchild,” which dropped in June and debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking Carpenter’s second-ever No. 1 song.
See Carpenter’s new alternate Man’s Best Friend cover below.
