During the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday, multi-platinum pop singer Sabrina Carpenter gave a performance of a song from her latest album “Man’s Best Friend” that has drawn controversy due to its explicit pro-transgender messaging.
Carpenter performed her song “Tears” while surrounded by several drag queens and male dancers. The performance’s stage design and choreography were inspired by the 1975 cult-classic film “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a movie which also contains transgender themes and characters.
During the performance, dancers held signage conveying various messages in support of transgenderism, while the singer made entrance onto the stage through a “manhole” cover, which was, perhaps, an allusion to the title of her new album “Man’s Best Friend.”
Specifically, the signs depicted the following slogans: “Dolls dolls dolls,” “protect trans rights,” “for the theys and the gays,’ “In trans we trust,” “we are everywhere,” as well as an admonition of, “If you hate you’ll never get laid.”
Though Carpenter did not make any explicit statements during or immediately after her performance about promoting the rights of trans-identifying people, she did so in her acceptance speech for winning the VMA award of Best Album for “Man’s Best Friend.” She also praised her fellow performers, and urged the audience to be less negative and discriminatory.
“I’m just the luckiest girl in the world,” Carpenter told the audience, according to The Daily Wire. “And I do want to say to my incredible cast and dancers and my queens on stage with me tonight: This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity, so to get to be part of something–so often more than not–that is something that can bring you light, make you smile, make you dance, and make you feel like the world is your… oyster, I’m so grateful to do that.”
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