Yes, We’re Talking About Sabrina Carpenter’s Album Cover
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Freeze! The Polyester Podcast had a whole episode planned for our lovely listeners until Sabrina Carpenter delivered us feminist discourse on a silver platter, or rather, on a silver dog leash. On Wednesday, the singer announced her forthcoming summer album titled 'Man's Best Friend' along with artwork picturing Sabrina on all fours having her hair pulled by an anonymous suited figure.
Is the cover art a clever continuation of Carpenter's satirisation of female sexuality or are we being conned into embracing misogynistic portrayals of women again in the mainstream? This week, hosts Ione and Gina get into the nitty gritty of the discourse; from pop star sensuality, to ‘puriteens’ and the continuing poison of choice feminism on our ability to think critically.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, I'm Gina, hi, everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor, Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding |
| 0:06.2 | editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is The Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the |
| 0:11.6 | discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you haven't yet, |
| 0:17.8 | make sure to subscribe to our membership platform for exclusive podcast-centered perks. |
| 0:23.1 | We're offering exclusive video episodes, secret mini-episodes, and even episodes centred on what you |
| 0:29.2 | want us to talk about across different tier options. Go check it out at the link in our |
| 0:33.7 | description. Do we have any reviews, Ione? We do. This is from Apple podcast by |
| 0:39.7 | Josephineas, Phineas, Josephinius, in Denmark. Five stars, great pod. Love the podcast. It's |
| 0:46.7 | always such a treat when there's a new episode out. I've been listening for a long time and |
| 0:49.6 | confirm that the hosts continue to come up with fresh insights and thorough research on |
| 0:53.6 | everything pop culture. Thank you. And then on Spotify we have Eva Baby 98 saying so happy I found |
| 1:00.4 | this podcast which is really cute. Thanks Eva. And we also have Agnes Millen saying stop. Not |
| 1:05.7 | David Lynch told me it was fine to get Botox crying. Also I completely forgot I did this. |
| 1:11.8 | What said that? |
| 1:16.6 | I forgot we spoke about Natasha Leon at all. You did a really good Natasha Leon impression. |
| 1:22.7 | So many good points. I really love how you tackled the whole thing with role models and influences. Like you're right, their entire career is defined by their influence over people |
| 1:26.0 | and whether they can get people to buy products now. Now suddenly when we bring up the consequences of their actions, |
| 1:31.1 | they aren't role models anymore, be for real. So disingenuous, amazing episode. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:38.5 | So today, a spanner has been put in the works of Polyester HQ. No, no, it was like record scratch. Yeah. |
| 1:47.1 | Rewind. Cut the cameras. Dead ass. Yeah. Uh, mic drop. We had a whole completely different |
| 1:53.6 | episode plan, which we might stick. But we were going to do like a three and one episode because |
| 1:57.0 | there wasn't anything crazy going on. And then Sabrina Carpenter dropped her album artwork. |
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