Carly Simon defends Sabrina Carpenter's controversial album cover, says it's not 'outrageous'

Carly Simon is coming to Sabrina Carpenter's defense. 

During a caller interview, Simon reacted to Carpenter's medium screen that caused rather a stir. 

Carpenter's medium artwork for "Man's Best Friend" showed a photograph of the vocalist connected her hands and knees, arsenic a antheral appeared to beryllium grabbing her by the hair. The "Busy Woman" vocalist wore a achromatic mini formal and matching heels successful the photo.

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The erstwhile Disney prima has been known for her racy performances and turning heads.   (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AEG)

Simon argued the existent outrage surrounding Carpenter's medium is comparatively mild, compared to past examples of bold creator look successful the euphony industry. 

"She’s not doing thing outrageous," the "You're So Vain" vocalist said successful an interrogation with Rolling Stone. "It seems tame."

"There person been acold flashier covers than hers," Simon said. "One of the astir startling covers I’ve ever seen was [The Rolling Stones’] "Sticky Fingers." That was retired determination successful presumption of intersexual attitude. So I don’t cognize wherefore she’s getting specified flak."

Once Carpenter shared her latest medium screen of "Man's Best Friend," fans were speedy to comment.

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"This screen makes maine uncomfortable…" 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

Another remark read, "That's disgusting!!"

Other fans enjoyed Carpenter's medium and wrote, "Sue her she wants to beryllium iconic."

While Simon is nary alien to pushing the envelope herself, the vocalist reacted to the akin disapproval she received for her celebrated 1975 "Playing Possum" album. 

The 'You're So Vain' vocalist defends young star's provocative imagery by comparing it to the screen of her ain arguable 1975 medium 'Playing Possum.' (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Everybody looked astatine it, and radical decidedly had a absorption to it," Simon told Rolling Stone of her ain screen astatine the time. "But they wouldn’t person told maine what they truly thought."

The "You Belong To Me" vocalist famously posed successful a lacy achromatic formal with matching leather boots. Simon's look wasn't shown, but she was photographed connected her knees for the medium cover. 

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That photograph was changeable by Norman Seeff, who inactive remembers the disturbance it caused. 

"Suddenly, I’m getting calls from ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek,' saying, ‘This is 1 of the sexiest covers that has ever [been] known,’" Seeff recalled. 

Legendary vocalist Carly Simon weighs successful connected Sabrina Carpenter's provocative medium artwork, drafting parallels to her ain 1975 cover. (Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

"There’s this full contention astir what did it represent? It felt precise overmuch similar that vigor successful a woman, but I conscionable thought of it arsenic a beauteous shot."

Meanwhile, the erstwhile Disney prima has been known for her racy performances and turning heads.  

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In March, Carpenter shocked fans with her explicit creation moves astatine her performance successful Paris.  (Getty Images)

In March, Carpenter shocked fans with her explicit creation moves astatine her performance successful Paris. 

During each amusement connected her "Short n' Sweet" satellite tour, the vocalist simulates a antithetic intersexual presumption portion performing her deed "Juno." Carpenter shows disconnected each determination erstwhile she sings the lyrics, "Wanna effort retired immoderate freaky positions? / Have you ever tried this one?"

At her Paris performance, Carpenter paid tribute to the City of Lights erstwhile she and 2 antheral backup dancers simulated a three-way enactment act, known arsenic the Eiffel Tower.

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In a photo from the show that the relationship Buzzing Pop posted connected X, Carpenter, who donned a sparkly greenish and metallic halter apical with a matching miniskirt, was seen bending implicit betwixt the 2 dancers who leaned into her and held hands supra her. The presumption is meant to emulate the operation of Paris' famed humanities landmark. 

The station divided fans erstwhile it went viral connected societal media, with immoderate fans slamming Carpenter's show arsenic excessively inappropriate for the younger members of her instrumentality base, portion others contended that she had the close to germinate arsenic an creator aft transitioning to adulthood.