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Sabrina Carpenter has someone holy on her side!
On Wednesday, June 25, the singer, 26, unveiled an alternate cover for her upcoming album Man’s Best Friend on Instagram and joked about the special someone who approved it.
One of the alternate covers show Carpenter posing with her arm around a man, seemingly paying homage to a photo of Marilyn Monroe. The pair are dressed in formal wear, with the singer in a long gown covered in jewels and her partner in a black blazer and white shirt.
In the snap, Carpenter looks past the camera while the man faces the opposite direction.
The next photo is a wider shot of the singer and the man, but this time she has a shocked look on her face as she looks behind her partner.
“I signed some copies of Man’s Best Friend for you guys & here is a new alternate cover approved by God,” she captioned her post. “Available now on my website 🤍.”
The first alternate artwork can be purchased on her website for the vinyls and cassettes. The standard vinyls, CDs and cassettes are also available.
On June 11, the pop star announced the release of her album along with the original album cover. The cover features her on hands and knees in a black mini dress and black heels as a man cut out of the photo grabs a fistful of her blonde curls.
A few days later, the “Espresso” singer responded to a negative comment about the cover, after an X user wrote, “Does she have a personality outside of sex”
Carpenter reshared the post, responding, “Girl yes and it is goooooood.”
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The album is set to release in August, with the lead single, called “Manchild,” out now.
On June 5, Carpenter shared insight on the making of the song, writing in an Instagram post that she penned the hit on “a random” Tuesday with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff, shortly after she finished her chart-topping LP Short n’ Sweet.
“Not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life,” she continued. “It sounds like the song embodiment of a loving eye roll and it feels like a never ending road trip in the summer ! hence why i wanted to give it to you now- so you can stick your head out the car window and scream it all summer long!”
Man’s Best Friend follows her sixth album Short n’ Sweet, released last August. The album featured hit singles “Espresso,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Bed Chem.”
Carpenter took home Best Pop Vocal Album for the album and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Espresso” at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
Man’s Best Friend will be released on Aug. 29.
