Carpenter continued to respond to the backlash surrounding her sexualized image in an interview with Rolling Stone later that month, telling the outlet she wasn’t going to let it bring her down.
“They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this.’ But those are the songs that you’ve made popular. Clearly, you love s–. You’re obsessed with it,” she explained. “[It] wasn’t written from a place of ‘How do I one-up myself?’ or ‘How do I recreate something else?’ Short n’ Sweet [her 2024 album] was this magical gift; it fed me, and it fed a lot of other people in the world. It felt true to me, and it felt authentic to a lot of other people. It’s rare that those line up ever, let alone more than once. It unlocked my brain to know myself more and more.”