Stock, Aitken & Waterman blast modern popstars for “throwing away” women’s rights: “To see Sabrina Carpenter dressed as a little girl is quite offensive”

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Sabrina Carpenter as “throwing away” women’s rights.The English songwriting and record production trio made the comments during a new interview with The Sun, where they shared their outlook on modern pop music.“Pop music, and particularly pop videos, have become a lot more sexualised than back in the ‘80s — overtly so, for better or for worse,” Aitken, aged 68, told the outlet.“And that is incredibly strange given that women’s rights are so protected now,” Waterman, 78, agreed.

He also went on to name Sabrina Carpenter as one artist whose image, he thinks, is detrimental to women. “To see Sabrina Carpenter dressed as a little girl is quite offensive.

She doesn’t need that. She’s got great talent and yet the whole of the industry, these girls come out in as little as possible because they know they’re driving young boys to their websites.”He continued: “So you go, hang on, we could never have done that 30 years ago.

We would have been killed if we’d have done half of what they do now… Madonna was the only person who ever got close to that image.”Last year, Carpenter became the first solo artist since The Beatles to place two simultaneous Top Three hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and has got fans talking for her sexual lyrics and suggestive quips at her live shows and often-revealing outfits.In The Sun interview, Stock, 73, also weighed in on how he thinks women’s rights can be affected by pop music, saying: “They’ve won all of their freedoms and their rights, women.