Legendary singer Carly Simon weighs in on Sabrina Carpenter's album artwork as it receives backlash, drawing parallels to her own 1975 cover.

Sure, backlash to scandalous album artwork at the hands of a woman is nothing novel — but the controversy surrounding Sabrina Carpenter 's Man's Best Friend cover art certainly recalls a similar predicament faced by Carly Simon with 1975's Playing Possum.

Carly Simon is standing by Sabrina Carpenter. In an interview with Rolling Stone published on Wednesday, June 18, the "You're So Vain" hitmaker came to the pop star's defense amid the backlash surrounding the cover for her forthcoming album Man's Best Friend.