Sabrina Carpenter’s racy album cover was only option after men kept ‘yanking’ her hair

The outrage over Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover has sparked feminist debates but turns out she had no other option, thanks to the men involved.

Man’s Best Friend, her seventh studio album, featured the Tears singer on all fours with a man grabbing her hair.

Discussions over whether it was subversive or misogynistic raged on as Sabrina’s intentions and implications were dissected.

But now, the 26-year-old singer has revealed she simply had no other option as the male models didn’t know how to play with her hair.

‘It’s so funny thinking about it now,’ she said on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Show. ‘Because I wanted a man playing with my hair and I actually used maybe five different men to take that photo because none of them could play with my hair.

‘They were all pulling it. They were all nervous to be holding my hair.’

So, the controversial pose came about because the men couldn’t perform how she needed them to — no wonder she keeps killing them in music videos.

Sabrina continued: ‘So the grip looked like they were yanking it, and the whole purpose of the photo was supposed to be cheeky and airy and playful of like, I got myself here, here I am, this is someone I love but also someone that emotionally can be doing a lot with my heart and doing a lot with my emotions.’

The final chosen photo was ‘so special’ as it was the ‘only shot’ on film that had every aspect perfectly lined up.