Sabrina Carpenter issues apology after viral 'culturally insensitive' incident at Coachella after the singer, performing at the California festival on Friday night, mistook an audience member's Arabic zaghrouta for 'yodeling' and called it 'weird', prompting a backlash she addressed the following day.
The moment came during a pause in Carpenter's headline set, just after Please Please Please, when the noise of the crowd had begun to settle and one voice still carried. Carpenter said she thought she had heard someone yodel, asked the fan to do it again, then recoiled. 'I don't like it,' she said. When the audience member replied, 'It's my culture,' and then tried to explain that it was 'a call of celebration', Carpenter still did not seem to grasp what she was hearing.
