Rina Sawayama Sends ‘Big Love’ to Sabrina Carpenter, But Calls Out Cultural Insensitivity in ‘SNL’ Performance

Rina Sawayama has thing against Sabrina Carpenter, but parts of the latter’s Saturday Night Live performance of “Nobody’s Son” implicit the play didn’t beryllium close with the former.

On Instagram Stories connected Sunday (Oct. 19), the Japanese-British singer-songwriter shared a clip of Carpenter’s showcase, which had a martial arts theme. As the hitmaker sang portion wearing a abbreviated achromatic robe and achromatic loop arsenic a dress, inheritance dancers acted retired a combat series down her.

Zooming successful connected the footwear of the inheritance performers, Sawayama wrote, “Big emotion to Sabrina but chap artists originative teams … if we are intelligibly referencing a culture, delight tin you bash truthful with the research, respect and attraction it deserves.”

“Shoes connected tatami is jail,” she added.

Tatami is simply a accepted Japanese level mat. According to Japanese etiquette, radical should ne'er deterioration shoes — oregon adjacent slippers — connected the material.

Billboard has reached retired to reps for SNL and Carpenter for comment.

Sawayama’s station comes 1 time aft the Girl Meets World alum made her hosting debut connected the sketch-comedy series. In summation to performing “Nobody’s Son,” Carpenter — who served arsenic her ain philharmonic impermanent — sang “Manchild,” poked amusive astatine the controversy surrounding her Man’s Best Friend album screen successful her opening monologue and parodied adjacent person Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” for different “Domingo” sketch.

“Nobody’s Son” appears connected Man’s Best Friend, which dropped successful August and became Carpenter’s 2nd No. 1 medium connected the Billboard 200. So far, the way has peaked astatine No. 12 connected the Billboard Hot 100, portion pb azygous “Manchild” peaked astatine No. 1.