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Scotsman
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Win Sabrina Carpenter VIP tickets, hotel stay and £500 spending money
You could win a Sabrina Carpenter VIP experience in this Wowcher comp | AFP via Getty Images This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. One lucky winner will get Diamond VIP access to Sabrina Carpenter's Hyde Park show – with a five-star hotel and £500 cash thrown in. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're a Sabrina Carpenter fan, this is your dream night out – but you've only got until Wednesday 3 July to enter. A new Wowcher competition is offering one lucky winner the chance to live it up in true VIP style at Sabrina's Short n' Sweet Tour stop at London's Hyde Park on Friday 5 July – with two Diamond VIP tickets, a five-star Hilton Park Lane hotel stay, and a whopping £500 spending money all included. Tickets start from just £5.95 for Wowcher VIP members – and with 20 to 200 entries included depending on which option you pick, this is a low-cost chance to bag a high-end experience. What you'll win The prize includes two Diamond VIP standing tickets with front-of-stage access at the British Summer Time Hyde Park show. Expect a high-energy set packed with Sabrina's biggest hits – including Espresso, Please Please Please, and Feather – plus surprise covers and guest appearances from rising stars like Clairo and Olivia Dean. You'll also enjoy early entry and exclusive access to the VIP Summer Garden – complete with premium bars, street food, chill-out zones, and private toilets. Then it's off to the 5-star Hilton London Park Lane, where your queen room stay includes breakfast, luxe Italian marble bathrooms, spa access, and sweeping views over the London skyline. And to top it all off, you'll get £500 in spending money – perfect for shopping, food, and some serious Sabrina merch. Final entries must be submitted online before 3 July 2025. Entry is also possible by post, with full T&Cs available on the Wowcher site. Butlin's just opened its biggest-ever Soft Play – and your kids will go wild Looking for a family getaway that delivers maximum kid-energy burn-off and a bit of peace for the grown-ups? 🎉 Butlin's has just opened its biggest-ever Soft Play centre – and it's a whopper. 🧸 Four storeys tall, 3,000 square feet wide, and filled with colourful themed zones inspired by the Skyline Gang – it's all included in the price of your day pass or break. 👟 Ready to dive in? Click here to book your Butlins break and let the little ones loose 🌈 This article was produced with the support of AI tools to assist in sourcing and structuring information. All content has been reviewed, verified and completed by a National World journalist prior to publication.
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Scotsman
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Win Sabrina Carpenter VIP tickets, hotel stay and £500 spending money
You could win a Sabrina Carpenter VIP experience in this Wowcher comp | AFP via Getty Images This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. One lucky winner will get Diamond VIP access to Sabrina Carpenter's Hyde Park show – with a five-star hotel and £500 cash thrown in. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're a Sabrina Carpenter fan, this is your dream night out – but you've only got until Wednesday 3 July to enter. A new Wowcher competition is offering one lucky winner the chance to live it up in true VIP style at Sabrina's Short n' Sweet Tour stop at London's Hyde Park on Friday 5 July – with two Diamond VIP tickets, a five-star Hilton Park Lane hotel stay, and a whopping £500 spending money all included. Tickets start from just £5.95 for Wowcher VIP members – and with 20 to 200 entries included depending on which option you pick, this is a low-cost chance to bag a high-end experience. What you'll win The prize includes two Diamond VIP standing tickets with front-of-stage access at the British Summer Time Hyde Park show. Expect a high-energy set packed with Sabrina's biggest hits – including Espresso, Please Please Please, and Feather – plus surprise covers and guest appearances from rising stars like Clairo and Olivia Dean. You'll also enjoy early entry and exclusive access to the VIP Summer Garden – complete with premium bars, street food, chill-out zones, and private toilets. Then it's off to the 5-star Hilton London Park Lane, where your queen room stay includes breakfast, luxe Italian marble bathrooms, spa access, and sweeping views over the London skyline. And to top it all off, you'll get £500 in spending money – perfect for shopping, food, and some serious Sabrina merch. Final entries must be submitted online before 3 July 2025. Entry is also possible by post, with full T&Cs available on the Wowcher site. Butlin's just opened its biggest-ever Soft Play – and your kids will go wild Looking for a family getaway that delivers maximum kid-energy burn-off and a bit of peace for the grown-ups? 🎉 Butlin's has just opened its biggest-ever Soft Play centre – and it's a whopper. 🧸 Four storeys tall, 3,000 square feet wide, and filled with colourful themed zones inspired by the Skyline Gang – it's all included in the price of your day pass or break. 👟 Ready to dive in? Click here to book your Butlins break and let the little ones loose 🌈
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sabrina Carpenter's ‘Manchild' Debuts at Number One on Hot 100
Sabrina Carpenter has returned to the top of the charts with her latest single 'Manchild' debuting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. 'Manchild' is Carpenter's first song to debut atop the Hot 100, and her second Number One overall after 'Please Please Please' spent a week there almost exactly one year ago (June 29, 2024 to be exact). It's also Carpenter's fourth song to crack the Top 10, along with 'Taste' (which peaked at Number Two) and 'Espresso' (which peaked at Number Three). More from Rolling Stone Sabrina Carpenter Is Under Fire for a Spicy Album Cover. Tell It to Carly Simon Sabrina Carpenter Cold-Plunges Before Every Show and 16 Other Things That Didn't Make Our Cover Story Sabrina Carpenter Laughs Off Critics of Her Sexy Shows: 'You're Obsessed With It' Carpenter released 'Manchild' earlier this month, with the track serving as the first offering from her upcoming album, Man's Best Friend, out Aug. 29 via Island Records. The album will be Carpenter's seventh studio album overall and comes on the heels of her 2024 Grammy-winning breakthrough Short n' Sweet. In her new Rolling Stone cover story, Carpenter spoke about her decision to follow-up Short n' Sweet so quickly, especially considering artists usually take a couple of years between albums (Carpenter is still technically touring in support of her last album). 'If I really wanted to, I could have stretched out Short n' Sweet much, much longer,' she said. 'But I'm at that point in my life where I'm like, 'Wait a second, there's no rules.' If I'm inspired to write and make something new, I would rather do that. Why would I wait three years just for the sake of waiting three years? It's all about what feels right. I'm learning to listen to that a lot more, instead of what is perceived as the right or wrong move.' As for those tour dates, Carpenter has a handful of festival dates scheduled for this summer and fall, including headlining spots at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival. She'll kick off another North American tour Oct. 25 in Pittsburgh, with the run wrapping Nov. 23 in Los Angeles. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
USA Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Sabrina Carpenter hits back with cheeky alternative to provocative album cover
Sabrina Carpenter is barking back at the backlash surrounding her suggestive album cover. The outspoken pop star is set to release her new album "Man's Best Friend" on Aug. 29, but the 26-year-old "Espresso" hitmaker took to social media Wednesday, June 25, to sarcastically slam critics of her provocative album cover. In her caption, Carpenter wrote that she "signed some copies of Man's Best Friend for you guys & here is a new alternate cover approved by God available now on my website" alongside a white heart emoji. The breakout singer's June 11 album announcement garnered criticism with its imagery showing Carpenter, dressed in a black dress and high heels, kneeling on the ground in a dog-like pose while an unidentified man stands off to the side and pulls her by the hair. Sabrina Carpenter sparks controversy with provocative 'Man's Best Friend' album cover In the new photos, Carpenter faces the camera and looks away in two separate shots – one close-up and another full-body photograph – as she stands and holds onto a man, with her hands on his arm and back. "Man's Best Friend," Carpenter's seventh studio effort, follows the release of her breakthrough 2024 album "Short n' Sweet," which catapulted her to superstardom after the former Disney star worked for years in the music industry. The album, which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, spawned the hit singles "Espresso," "Please Please Please," "Taste" and "Bed Chem," as well as solidified the singer's playful pin-up girl image. Contributing: Edward Segarra
New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Sabrina Carpenter swears she's just having fun — but there's nothing funny about her regressive new album cover
Sabrina Carpenter has unveiled a new album cover to her millions of fans on Instagram: an image of the pop singer, on her knees before a man wearing a suit and yanking her by the hair. A man upright and standing; a woman genuflecting on the ground. Him fully dressed, anonymous and face out of frame; her fully exposed, in a barely-there skirt and sky-high slingbacks. Him asserting dominance with a tug of the hair; her submitting totally, mouth slightly agape. The power dynamics couldn't be any clearer, but the upcoming album's title — 'Man's Best Friend' — really sends it home. It puts women on the level of dogs … cute little pets, there for male enjoyment. 6 Sabrina Carpenter's sexually suggestive upcoming album cover has sparked outrage online. Sabrina Carpenter It's an amazingly regressive message from a supposed girl-power icon, and it does a tremendous disservice to the millions of girls who look up to stars like Carpenter for cues about femininity and womanhood. Carpenter might intend the cover with a wink and a nod, but even if she's in on the joke, her youngest fans are not. The 26-year-old 'Espresso' and 'Please Please Please' singer first captured Gen Z and Gen Alpha's hearts on Disney Channel, where she played Maya on the show 'Girl Meets World' from 2014 to 2017. Like many former Disney stars before her, she launched a successful mainstream career and stooped to hyper-sexualizing her music — and herself — to delineate this new chapter from her kid-actor past. 6 Carpenter's performances have been criticized for being overly sexual for tween AEG Take lyrics from her song 'Bed Chem:' 'I bet we'd have really good bed chem … Come right on me/ I mean camaraderie… And I bet we'd both arrive at the same time/ and I bet the thermostat's set at six‑nine.' Or her song 'Juno,' an allusion to the 2007 film about a teen pregnancy: 'Wanna try out my fuzzy pink handcuffs?… If you love me right, then who knows/ I might let you make me Juno… Adore me, hold me and explore me/ Mark your territory, I'm so f–king horny.' A parenting blogger for the popular site makes the case for parents to 'put down the pitchforks over Sabrina Carpenter' with a rather unconvincing anecdote: 'I found myself at a concert venue scream-singing 'I'm so f—ing horny' alongside 15,000 fellow Sabrina Carpenter fans, most of whom fell solidly within the 12-18 age bracket.' 6 Carpenter's lyrics include declarations of being 'horny' and allusions to teen pregnancy. Rolling Stone via Getty Images She characterizes the concert as 'a joyful 90-minute celebration of femininity and fun' — but I'd describe the stunts Carpenter puts on at her concerts as self-objectifying, at best. During the tween-packed shows of her recently wrapped 'Short 'N Sweet Tour,' Carpenter knelt down on stage, pulled her own hair back into a ponytail and imitated oral sex with a microphone multiple times. She also mimicked the 'Eiffel Tower' sexual position on stage with two male dancers in Paris, bending over and grinding against one of their crotches as she sang with her face in the other's genital area. 6 Carpenter acted out an explicit sexual act on stage while performing in Paris. @callmemariepal/X Of course, Carpenter has countless defenders, from Buzzfeed writers who insist that she 'expertly embraces her sexuality without succumbing to the 'male gaze'' and even singer Carly Simon, who the pop star's new album cover is not 'anything outrageous.' An op-ed in The Guardian defended her, too, arguing that 'to be submissive and strong at once is to break some brains' — but the truth is that Carpenter's acts of self-degradation are seen through the impressionable eyes of a pre-teen audience that isn't going to get her cheekiness. Carpenter's own answer to critics who say the imagery she evokes is regressive? 'If you can't handle a girl who is confident in her own sexuality, then don't come to my shows.' 6 Carly Simon defended Sabrina Carpenter's new album cover amidst criticism. Getty Images Fair enough. Carpenter is an adult and, if she thinks this is empowering, then more power to her. It's on parents to decide what's appropriate for their children, not a pop star. But that doesn't mean she's above criticism, especially when she insists that she is a model of a woman who is 'confident in her own sexuality' — even though it seems like she's expressing her sexuality while on her knees more often than not. Is this the female sexual 'empowerment' of the next generation? 6 Young girls and young women make up a significant part of Carpenter's audience. via REUTERS From the outside looking in, it seems that Carpenter is a victim of the mass delusion that has convinced young women that, if they choose to be mistreated and disrespected by men — if they become enthusiastic participants in their own degradation — then sexual disrespect isn't actually what it is. Elder members of Gen Z have been hoodwinked into believing that enthusiastic consent absolves men of the need to treat them with dignity and respect, and that acting like the porn stars on their cell phone screens (or the pop stars on a concert stage) is empowerment. Generations of feminists fought so that today's young women could have more choice and freedom than ever before. But a pornified culture has tricked them into choosing their own disempowerment. It's time to stop this before the next group of girls fall into this same trap.
