Following the discharge of Sabrina Carpenter’s blood-filled “Feather” music video on Halloween, a Catholic priest who allowed a scene from the clip to be filmed inside a Brooklyn church has been relieved of his administrative duties, in accordance with the New York Instances.
Within the video, the 24-year-old pop star facilitates the loss of life of a collection of obnoxious males, who relentlessly hit on her all through the video. The cat-callers meet their karma by getting run over by a truck; preventing one another to loss of life; and getting choked by the tie in an elevator shaft. On the finish of the clip, Carpenter dances round a church on the males’s funerals, sporting a brief black tulle gown and veil and posing with non secular objects on the alter, together with a coffin that reads “RIP B—-.”
That final scene was filmed at Our Girl of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Parish in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Following the music video’s launch, Bishop Robert J. Brennan instructed the Catholic Information Company he’s “appalled at what was filmed at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn,” noting that “The parish didn’t observe diocesan coverage concerning the filming on Church property, which features a overview of the scenes and script.”
The pastor, Msgr. Jamie J. Gigantiello, was subsequently relieved of his administrative duties overseeing the church, per New York Instances. In an apology posted to the church’s Fb web page, Gigantiello revealed that he accredited the filming in September after not discovering something destructive about Carpenter on-line in an “effort to additional strengthen the bonds between the younger artistic artists who make up a big a part of this group.” He additionally instructed NYT that he was introduced the video shoot concept as a funeral scene, however the consequence within the music video was “not what was initially introduced to me.”
Billboard has reached out to Carpenter’s crew for remark.
“Feather” is the most recent music off Carpenter’s July 2022 album Emails I Can’t Ship to get the music video therapy, following “Nonsense,” “As a result of I Preferred a Boy,” “Quick Instances” and “Skinny Dipping.” Upon its launch, the album debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, marking the rising pop star’s highest peak on the chart up to now.
Watch the music video beneath.
