W hen Sabrina Carpenter first released her latest album, Man's Best Friend, the pushback to the original album art was great.

Sabrina Carpenter bared all for her latest magazine cover, despite criticism that her image is too sexual. The pop star, 26, appears nude for Rolling Stone ‘s Summer Issue, published on Thursday.

Carpenter’s album cover isn’t going nearly that far, as it’s blessedly free of body fluids, but at the same time I don’t think it would be a stretch to call the image soft-core, or at ...