'You're obsessed': Sabrina Carpenter is hitting back as critics come for her new album artwork

Earlier this week, Sabrina Carpenter, 26, announced her new album Man's Best Friend set for release in August, sharing an image of the album artwork to her Instagram.

Fans couldn't have been more excited, but quickly online discourse shifted to criticism around Carpenter, simply for her sexualised album cover, which soon turned to include criticism of her more sexual songs.

In particular, haters have come for Carpenter's song Juno and her performance of it on her Short 'N Sweet tour, but the singer has now said she's not interested in pleasing everyone.

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Speaking with Rolling Stone Carpenter said she finds it "so funny when people complain".

"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," she said of the bizarre criticism.

The star went viral on social media during the tour as fans every night posted videos of the moment during Juno where she would act out a different sex position as she sang the line, "Have you ever tried this one?"

"There's so many more moments than the Juno positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can't control that," Carpenter added.

"If you come to the show, you'll [also] hear the ballads, you'll hear the more introspective numbers.

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"I find irony and humor in all of that, because it seems to be a recurring theme. I'm not upset about it, other than I feel mad pressure to be funny sometimes."

Carpenter says these criticisms of a woman embracing her sexuality are reflective of the time we live in, explaining that it seems like an era of female empowerment but it's actually quite the opposite.

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"We're in such a weird time where you would think it's girl power, and women supporting women, but in reality, the second you see a picture of someone wearing a dress on a carpet, you have to say everything mean about it in the first 30 seconds that you see it," the Espresso singer said.

"I don't want to be pessimistic, but I truly feel like I've never lived in a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinised in every capacity.

"I'm not just talking about me. I'm talking about every female artist that is making art right now."

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