I even thought of that HBO series from a couple years ago, The Idol, which I may be cursed to be one of the only people who remembers: There’s a moment in one episode when a music-industry character suggests making lemonade of a public relations fiasco that the pop musician at the center of the show has become embroiled in due to a fairly explicit leaked picture of her.

Pop hitmaker Sabrina Carpenter addressed the "funny" criticism that she is overly sexual in her lyrics and if she's "doing the single thing."

When the pop star Sabrina Carpenter dropped the cover art for her forthcoming album, “Man’s Best Friend,” this week, it became an instant conversation piece.