India, Sept. 6 -- Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter is not backing down over the uproar surrounding her new album artwork. In a conversation with Apple Music's Zane Lowe after the release of Man's Best Friend on August 29, Carpenter called out what she sees as a generational double standard. The 26-year-old told Lowe that older listeners have been quick to scold her for sexual themes in her music and visuals, despite having lived through similar experiences themselves.

"There is a generation that gets offended by some of the things I do, and it is a generation that has either young children ... or they have raised children, and they are just sort of looking at it from a different point in their life - sort of scolding," Carpenter said, as rep...