High Glamour? where? Should we love it on default only because its shot by Meisel? Sabrina is vanilla and bland, its like vogue decided that gen z girlies are their audience smh
I mean, even if you find her bland and vanilla, I don't see how one could deny that the style of the photo is glamorous. Full beat, hair for days, "sexy" pose and styling, Meisel lighting, airbrushed within an inch of her life. This cover is the textbook definition of glamour photography. I like some of her songs well enough. I wouldn't call myself a fan, per se, but I think she is a star at this point and I do like the Madonna angle here. It's classic.
Sometimes I find the gen-z celebrities are bit annoying myself, as someone in my 30s. But thinking back, weren't young women always the most common cover subjects? Sabrina is a couple of months shy of 26. Were boomers saying "ugh, these gen-x stars! Ugh, these millennial stars!" when the 90s and early 2000s supers were getting their covers, when celebrities like Gwyneth and Winona and Angelina were getting covers at the same age Sabrina is now? I feel certain they were. Someone can probably easily prove me wrong if I am wrong, but it was primarily women in their 20s and 30s getting covers for all of Vogue's history, I believe? And with each generation, the cycle repeats and it probably feels somewhat unprecedented each time to longtime readers.
Personally I do tend to like it when someone older and more established gets a cover. I don't always like the results, but it's exciting to see people like Erykah Badu, SJP, Frances McDormand, and Miuccia Prada on the cover, solo, as they have been in recent years.