Sabrina Carpenter mocked the controversy over her Man’s Best Friend album cover and fired back at her “horndog pop star” reputation during her Saturday Night Live monologue.
“Last time I was here, for the 50th anniversary, I got to sing with Paul Simon , and since then my new album Man’s Best Friend came out,” Carpenter said. “Some people got a little freaked out by the cover. I’m not sure why. It’s just this.”
Carpenter then showed the controversial cover, “Me on all fours with an unseen person pulling my hair. But what people don’t realize it’s just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it’s clearly a picture of me at the 50th anniversary special of Bowen [Yang] helping me up by the hair.” Carpenter continued to zoom out on the unaltered photo: “After Martin Short shov