“Oh yeah, that’s -1,000 aura points.” This comment, seen on TikTok and written in the language of Molière, is just one example among many of reactions to one of Sabrina Carpenter's concerts. It must be said that his tour, called “Short n' Sweet Tour” (which will stop in France next March), is generous with libidinous happenings. The best known being those for “Juno”, where in the preamble she pretends to have love at first sight for a person chosen randomly (or not) from the audience. A crush so intense that she loses part of her clothes and she gives him pink handcuffs. Before, a few verses later, simulating one of the Kamasutra positions on the lyrics “Have you ever tried… this one ?”.
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Until now, the postures were more or less sober, but more recently the pop star has given herself in the very explicit, by miming acrobatic doggy style, splits, strap (or strap-on) and fellatio that she gives, the microphone used as a rod. The world then seems to be divided into two irreconcilable camps: those who love this position (literally), seeing it as a form of modern feminism, since Sabrina Carpenter embraces her sexuality without blushing, and those who find the show ridiculous at best. , at worst vulgar and provocative. “I couldn’t take my kids or my parents on his tour”say a few individuals in comments here and there. That’s good, the playlist is not addressed to them. Really not.
A trashy, libidinous album and de facto consistent with his tour
Because to evoke one's children or one's parents in a more or less prudish way would be to demonstrate a certain lack of knowledge of the artist's catalog, and especially of his latest opus, Short n’ Sweetwhich is in no way “kids or parents friendly”. A simple listen is enough to understand it: “Bed Chem”, a very “Ariana Grande coded” title, evokes the unequivocal sexual alchemy that she fantasizes between herself and her crush; the controversial “Juno” cited above has almost the same message and the pop star says it bluntly: “I’m so fucking horny”. Visually too, we're not being finesse. The clip for “Taste” is an escalation of crazy violence even if it is not gratuitous and is justified by a large number of homages to horror cinema (and not only that). In short, the whole album sometimes exudes cynical violence, sometimes sex.
And it's not a shattering turnaround on the part of Sabrina Carpenter. Already in emails i can’t sendher fifth opus released in 2022 (because, yes, the singer has been in the game for a while even if you may have discovered her on “Espresso”), there was this identity covered in trash and sensuality. The title “Read your Mind”, full of innuendo, relates an unfulfilled love story with a man who prefers to gaslight her despite the good time spent in bed. The clip for “Feather”, which caused a scandal for being filmed in a church, clearly has something of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”. If the blasphemous side is different, the fact remains that the hemoglobin explodes and that the men do not serve much other than cannon fodder, just good for sometimes killing each other, sometimes ending up cut up by an elevator.
And if we skipped it a littleera Disney ?
So, to be so surprised to see her miming coitus on stage is either not really knowing her career (no harm, but now you know), or on the contrary being stuck on her beginnings and infantilizing her at the same time. extreme. We then obviously think of the Disney sitcom Riley's World where the young woman exploded. Except that teen fiction has ended since 2017, Sabrina Carpenter has grown up, so have we, she is not a little virginal blonde cut out for recorded laugh programs. It would be time to move on and let the person concerned explore other avenues, whether we find them in good taste or not. Finally, note that certain negative remarks are obviously tinged with misogyny. How many male artists have already mimed the act (sometimes on people in the audience themselves)? And for this same number of male artists, how many have been victims of bad buzz? Two or three?
A notion of patriarchal straitjacket that was already mentioned during a similar controversy marked by the homophobia of a large number of spectators, namely that of Troye Sivan on stage, mimicking more or less the same acts as his colleague Carpenter. And there’s nothing more logical about that, because homophobia and misogyny are linked like two long-term friends – there will always be more noise around a person who performs oral sex than around a person who receives one. . If despite all these explanations you still can't see Sabrina Carpenter's tour in painting, easy, you just have to play with your algorithm on the networks to escape it. For others, well enjoy: the edits are not about to stop.
