Carly Simon Defends Sabrina Carpenter Against ‘Flak’ for Divisive ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Cover: ‘It Seems Tame’

Carly Simon Defends Sabrina Carpenter Against ‘Flak’ for Divisive ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Cover: ‘It Seems Tame’

Carly Simon defended fellow pop star Sabrina Carpenter from backlash to her recently unveiled album artwork for 'Man's Best Friend.'

Sabrina Carpenter Is Under Fire for a Spicy Album Cover. Tell It to Carly Simon

Almost 25 years before Sabrina Carpenter was born, Carly Simon was in a department store in New York and feeling pretty good. She’d just released her fifth album, Playing Possum, and the frisky single “Attitude Dancing” was looking to follow her hits “You’re So Vain,” “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain,” and “Anticipation” onto the radio. Then, a woman who was apparently familiar with the cover of Playing Possum approached her. “She’d either seen …