Sabrina Carpenter - too sexy?

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I'm late 30s, not really target audience for Sabrina Carpenter and was unaware of her existence until a few weeks ago, however for some reason my social media algorithm is bombarding me with her.

Anyway, I now know two of her songs and they are VERY catchy. Great pop songs.

She is undeniably beautiful.

However. Does anybody else feel a bit uncomfortable / surprised with the overt sexuality that she exudes?

And I don't know how else to put it without sounding like a prude. Because I'm really not a prude.

She dresses in lingerie a lot of the time. And at the end of one song I believe she says "do you know this position?" and each time she performs it she then enacts a different sexual position on stage.

The lyrics to some of her songs are very dirty. (Just heard one that's about a partner getting back with his ex and she sings that "now you'll have to taste me when he's kissing you").

This is nothing new to me. Genuinely not a prude.

So I'm not sure why I feel uncomfortable with her. It's possibly because she looks very young and I got them impression her music was targeted at young girls, similar to Taylor Swift.

She's not really doing anything that Madonna didn't....yet it just feels different.

I also feel Madonna was pushing boundaries. Those boundaries have no been pushed, and what SC is doing isn't new. So why do I find it noteworthy? I don't really know.

I can't put my finger on it.

Something about it seems quite dated to me. Females like Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson etc just seem a lot more fresh to me. They were sexy, but there was more to them. More to the music. Their sexuality wasn't so "in your face".

I don't have a problem with SC just doing pop music, as I've said, I actually like two of the songs.

I just can't put my finger on why the overt sexuality is bothering me. I think it must be because of who I perceive the target audience to be.

I've seen people comparing her to Dolly Parton, and whilst nobody has elaborated, I guess I can see the similarities in curvy, blonde, petite, confident. But there is something....dare I say it.....seedy about SC that Dolly just doesn't have.

Anyway, just musing. Wondering if anybody else feels similar or if I am just a miserable old bag these days.

Men's flat useless nipples are also a secondary sexual characteristic and an erogenous zone.

This. Sex sells esp to that teenage audience. Nothing new but parents should be aware of what their children listen to or watch on eg YouTube. Madonna, Britney in her school uniform, Christina being dirty. Just another pop performer with a sexy look and lyrics

I quite like her songs, they are catchy but she looks tacky AF. I'm hard to shock, so it's not that, and I'm not a prude at all, but she looks like she'd have appeared on an ad in the back of the News of the World 30 years ago.

@Pedallleur that's what I'm trying to explain though.

It feels different to Madonna, Christina, Britney (and no, it's not just because I'm getting old).

Something about Sabrina Carpenter just makes me uncomfortable.

To draw a comparison with Britney: I can remember some people disapproving of Britney in school uniform in the Baby, One More Time video.

She must have been 16/17 at the time? And she looked 16/17. So yes it was saucy, but, as pp have said, sex sells, and she was a teenage pop star.

Sabrina Carpenter is 25. And I think she looks like a child and I think she (or her marketing team play on this).

I've said before, she can't help being short and flat-chested (not that there is anything wrong with this) but she really plays up to this, wearing clothes that show the complete lack of cleavage, and little kitten heels that don't elongate the leg the way would normally be seen as desirable.

I think she looks like an 8 year old dressing up in their mums lingerie, and then she simulates sex acts on stage.

I don't think the low heels and natural flat chest (ie no padded bras etc) are for comfort. I think they are to make her look very young.

And that's what I feel uncomfortable with.

Even the name of her album tour - Short N' Sweet. I just find it all a bit seedy.

Given how uncomfortable bras and heels are, I'd go with "for comfort".

Usually women wear heels and padded bras to look sexy because they are sexualised garments. You're criticising her for not wearing sexualised garments? People would criticise her for sexualising herself if she did wear them.

I don't think this lass can win here.

@MaidOfAle Yeah, I do take your point.

There is something about her that makes me uncomfortable though.

I agree with everything you have said. Saw her on the Brits and am shocked TBH.
What self respected man would go this? Wear silky parts and then gyrate on the bed.
Back to the 1970s and its not empowerment, its management manipulation like Miley Cyrus.
So sad and can see right through it. 😞