“Please Please Pease” don’t interrupt her.
Sabrina Carpenter had to shut down a yodeling fan during her first-ever Coachella headlining set in Indio, California, on Friday night.
“I think I heard someone yodel,” Carpenter, 26, said after stopping mid-performance amid the distraction, per a video of the incident uploaded to X. “Is that what you’re doing? I don’t like it.”
After the fan explained that yodeling was “part of [their] culture” and meant to be a “call” for “celebration,” the “Espresso” hitmaker put the kibosh on the unwanted crooning.
“That’s your culture, yodeling?” Carpenter said from behind the piano shortly before continuing her set. “Is this Burning Man? What’s going on? This is weird.”
But as the “Manchild” pop star went on to finish her Coachella set, fans rushed to social media to debate whether Carpenter’s response was appropriate.
“The way Sabrina doubled down and decided to continue to be ignorant even after it was clarified yodeling is part of that person’s culture says a lot about her,” one disappointed fan tweeted.
“Did Sabrina Carpenter just call that girl’s culture weird and creepy?” another added.
However, other fans defended the “Please Please Please” singer amid the yodeling debacle.
“She clearly could not hear the girl speaking,” one explained. “You have to remember she’s all the way up on stage.”
“Please don’t let this become a thing, she really couldn’t hear what was happening and was not trying to offend anyone!” another added. “She had a lot going on at the moment.”
Beyond her back-and-forth with the yodeling fan, Carpenter turned heads for the Hollywood and Broadway theatrics she brought to the Coachella stage on Friday night.
“Thelma & Louise” star Susan Sarandon made a surprise appearance during the “Taste” singer’s eventful set, and Carpenter even joked about headlining the biggest music fest in America.
“I can’t believe I’m headlining Coachella!” she shouted early on in her performance. “I mean, I can a little bit, but it’s nicer to say that, right?”
