The unique cover featured Carpenter on all fours, hair clutched by a suited determine simply barely in body. The artwork provoked a powerful response: some followers noticed the unique album cover as in step with Carpenter’s barely satirical, sexually liberated model.

Others have been extra important, together with the home abuse help group Glasgow Ladies’s Support, who known as the cover “a throwback to drained tropes that cut back ladies to pets, props, and possessions and promote a component of violence and management.”

Carpenter didn’t reply to the controversy till yesterday, when she posted the new cover: a subdued black-and-white {photograph} of herself greedy a person’s arm whereas staring into the gap.

Whereas she acknowledged the backlash, the controversial album cover is right here to remain. Within the submit revealing the new album artwork, the singer additionally introduced that she had taken time to signal copies of the unique. Each variations of the cover might be accessible when the album releases on August 29.