{"id":177865,"date":"2025-08-26T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177865\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:57:15","slug":"sabrina-carpenters-very-different-look-from-the-past-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177865\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter’s very different look from the past goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina Carpenter has been catching heat for her steamy, over-the-top promotional stunts for her upcoming album Man\u2019s Best Friend, but now throwback photos showing a totally different side are going viral.<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, the 26-year-old pop star has faced backlash for provocative album art <\/a>and campaign shots, including one image of her on all fours, seemingly being pulled by the hair by a man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans and critics couldn\u2019t decide if it was a daring feminist statement or just aimed at the male gaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The controversy followed her raunchy Short and Sweet tour,<\/a> where Carpenter shocked audiences with an array of X-rated poses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But those raunchy, skin-baring moments quickly faded from memory as two throwback red carpet snaps resurfaced, showing a Sabrina Carpenter that fans barely recognized.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Draped in oversized hoodies, she looked grunge, casual, and completely unbothered\u2014a far cry from the sultry, pin-up bombshell persona she\u2019s been flaunting for Man\u2019s Best Friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Sabrina <\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter has been catching heat for her steamy, over-the-top promotional stunts for her upcoming album Man\u2019s Best Friend, but now throwback photos showing a totally different side are going viral; (seen in 2018)<\/p>\n

\"Draped <\/p>\n

Draped in oversized hoodies, she looked grunge, casual, and completely unbothered\u2014a far cry from the sultry, pin-up bombshell persona she\u2019s been flaunting for Man\u2019s Best Friend; (seen in 2018)<\/p>\n

Her hair was completely different too\u2014long, straight, and low-key, a total departure from the 50s curls she\u2019s been rocking lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Add in the thigh-high boots, and fans couldn\u2019t help but compare her to Ariana Grande, cementing the full grunge-to-glam transformation.<\/p>\n

Fans even started sharing clips of Grande in outfits strikingly similar to Sabrina\u2019s, including concert moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One wrote, \u2018Sabrina\u2019s been taking notes.’<\/p>\n

The viral snaps come after\u00a0Sabrina’s original album cover for Man’s Best Friend was called out by a leading domestic violence charity who accused her of ‘reducing women to pets’ in addition to various online commentators.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The throwback snaps come amid ongoing controversy over Sabrina\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend album covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her original cover was slammed by a leading domestic violence charity, accusing her of \u2018reducing women to pets,\u2019 along with criticism from various online commentators.<\/p>\n

In response, Carpenter released an alternative cover \u2018approved by God\u2019\u2014a black-and-white image of her holding onto a handsome man\u2019s arm in a crowded room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Fans <\/p>\n

Fans and critics debated whether her looks were a bold feminist statement or just pandering to the male gaze<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The controversy followed her raunchy Short and Sweet tour, where Carpenter shocked audiences with an array of X-rated poses\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, she dropped a third cover, showing herself surrounded by roses, clad in black lingerie and a sheer nightgown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans worried about the fate of the original cover can rest easy\u2014it\u2019s still available.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s far from the first time Sabrina has sparked debate over her embrace of sexuality.<\/p>\n

On her Short n\u2019 Sweet Tour, the Espresso singer famously simulates sex positions while performing Juno, though not everyone is a fan of the NSFW displays.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s always so funny to me when people complain,\u2019 she told Rolling Stone about the raunchy moments on stage.\u00a0\u2018They\u2019re like, “All she does is sing about this.” But those are the songs that you\u2019ve made popular. Clearly you love sex. You\u2019re obsessed with it.<\/p>\n

‘It\u2019s in my show. There\u2019s so many more moments than the \u2018Juno\u2019 positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can\u2019t control that.<\/p>\n

‘If you come to the show, you\u2019ll [also] hear the ballads, you\u2019ll hear the more introspective numbers. I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme. I\u2019m not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes.\u2019<\/p>\n

In a follow-up phone call with the magazine, she added: \u2018I don\u2019t want to be pessimistic, but I truly feel like I\u2019ve never lived in a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinized in every capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Add <\/p>\n

Add in the thigh-high boots, and fans couldn\u2019t help but compare her to Ariana Grande, cementing the full grunge-to-glam transformation; (Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande in 2018)<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m not just talking about me. I\u2019m talking about every female artist that is making art right now.\u2019<\/p>\n

Her seventh studio album, Man\u2019s Best Friend, is set to release nearly a year after her previous chart-topping project, Short n\u2019 Sweet, which came out last August.<\/p>\n

All three singles from Short n\u2019 Sweet \u2014 Espresso, Please Please Please, and Taste \u2014 achieved the rare feat of entering Spotify’s Billion Streams Club.<\/p>\n

The album sold 10 million copies worldwide and earned Carpenter six Grammy nominations as a first-time nominee.<\/p>\n

She won two awards: Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance for Espresso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter has been catching heat for her steamy, over-the-top promotional stunts for her upcoming album Man\u2019s Best…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[179,185,211,171,15160,6260,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-177865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","13":"tag-tvshowbiz","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115096836350062664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}