Los Angeles, California - Sabrina Carpenter on Tuesday graced the cover of Interview Magazine's September issue, and she's finally opening up about her latest album's controversy-laden rollout.

The pop princess faced some serious backlash over the saucy cover of her seventh record, Man's Best Friend, which showed the former Disney star crawling on all fours in front of a man as he pulls her hair.

All this kerfuffle comes only a year after the runaway, no-skips success of her album Short n' Sweet, which launched her to A-list fame.

Interview's editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg asked the Tears singer about the scandalized reaction to her latest cover in the new interview and whether it got the reaction she wanted.

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"If I'm being completely transparent, I don't do anything anticipating what the reaction will be. I only do things that speak to me, that feel right, and make sense when you hear the music," Carpenter explained.

"When I came up with the imaging for it, it was so clear to me what it meant. So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, 'Wow.'"

The editor then asked the singer what "man's best friend" means to her, a question she's previously been somewhat evasive about.

"There's so many reasons why I called it Man's Best Friend, and there's so many layers in the experiences that I was going through at the time where, emotionally, I felt like one," she explained, seemingly referring to the phrase's typical reference – a dog.

The interviewer playfully argued that Sabrina's album cover was actually successful in getting exposure for the project.

"I always say, 'Viva hate.' Like, f**k it. Let them hate you. If they're talking, it's good," he said.

"But when there's all this controversy and people are screaming about it, do you like it? Does it make you cry or giggle?"

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The Espresso artist diplomatically admitted that it's "a little bit of both" and that her point of view will naturally differ from that of other people.

Ottenberg suggested that people "were mad that you appear submissive," after which the duo agreed that they each swing both dominant and submissive depending on the occasion.

"I mean, there's a lot of nuance to this, and I'm not naive to that, but I felt like, 'Why is this taboo?' This is something that women experience in such a real way, becoming comfortable with themselves and who they are," Carpenter said.

"I’m really, really grateful that there's enough of my audience that really knows me as a person that will be able to hear these songs how they're intended. It's always going to be up to interpretation, and I understand that," she continued.

"But I'm glad you like my sexual content!"