Sabrina Carpenter is apologizing for confusing a fan’s cultural chanting as a yodel during her 2026 Coachella headliner set.
There was a moment during the 25-year-old pop star’s performance where she noticed a fan doing a cry known as a “Zaghrouta,” a celebratory chant in Arabic.
Sabrina mistook it as a yodeling.
“I think I heard someone yodel. Is that what you’re doing?” she asked while sitting at the piano for her “We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night” performance.
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“I don’t like it,” she continued.
During the exchange, the fan tried explaining that the cry was their “culture” and a “call of celebration.”
Sabrina replied, “That’s your culture, is yodeling?” and later asked, “Is this Burning Man? What’s going on? This is weird.”
On Saturday, the Grammy nominee took to X to respond to a post about it. A user shared the clip and wrote, “sabrina saying that she doesn’t like a cultural arabic cheer… this is so insensitive and islamophobic. i am very disappointed in her.”
The “Sugar Talking” singer quoted it to respond, “my apologies i didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly. my reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. could have handled it better! now i know what a Zaghrouta is! I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out.”
my apologies i didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly. my reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. could have handled it better! now i know what a Zaghrouta is!
I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) April 11, 2026
Sabrina delivered a showstopping performance at Coachella, get the full recap of her set here!