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Pop princess Sabrina Carpenter just lately launched her new album Brief N Candy, and with it got here a bonus monitor titled “Busy Lady.”
The bonus monitor is accessible for individuals who purchase and obtain the album on-line. Nonetheless, it has prompted some controversy amongst followers as a consequence of a lyric during which she sings: “If you happen to don’t need me, I’ll simply deem you homosexual.”
The lyric has confused folks, as some have stated it’s “dated” and in contrast it to Taylor Swift’s “Image to Burn” from her debut album in 2006, arguing that “historical past repeats itself”.
In “Image to Burn” Swift sings: “So go and inform your mates that I’m obsessive and loopy, that’s tremendous, I’ll inform mine you’re homosexual.”
Since then, after some backlash from followers who stated the lyric was offensive, Swift up to date the music to exchange “I’ll inform mine when you’re homosexual” with “You gained’t thoughts if I say” earlier than main into the refrain.
So as to add to the Taylor Swift comparisons, Carpenter wrote the music “Busy Lady” with collaborator Amy Allen, and producer Jack Antonoff, who’s credited on lots of Swift’s current albums.
One individual stated that it appears to be a development for “pop girlies” to make use of the phrase “homosexual in almost all their songs for clout” which is “getting boring”.
One other stated the lyric has rubbed them “the fallacious manner”, whereas one other tweeted: “Sabrina Carpenter discovered homophobic at 25.” A fourth questioned whether or not Carpenter was getting into her “homophobic period.”
Since Carpenter launched her album, followers have been speculating that a number of of her songs are about Shawn Mendes after rumours of a love triangle between Carpenter, Mendes, and Camila Cabello unfold rampantly.
Many individuals additionally consider “Busy Lady” may be about Mendes as a consequence of widespread, unfounded hypothesis about Mendes’ sexuality on-line.
Mendes has additionally been topic to homophobic rumours, feedback and insinuations that Mendes dated each Carpenter and Cabello as a canopy and handled them poorly because of this as a result of he’s truly homosexual.
PinkNews has contacted Sabrina Carpenter’s representatives for remark.