Sabrina Carpenter’s Saturday Night Live performance has been called out by a fellow pop star over her use of Japanese-inspired set design.

The pint-sized “Manchild” singer performed “Nobody’s Son” on the Studio 8H stage on Oct. 18 dressed in a kimono-style robe and black belt with dancers faux-martial arts fighting, wearing sneakers, behind her.

Although Carpenter usually “arrests” people at her show, this time British-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama took a mugshot of the dancers and posted it to her Instagram story saying, “Shoes on tatami is jail.”

She was referring to the mat the dancers were performing on, which looked like a traditional Japanese tatami mat.

It is considered disrespectful in Japan to wear anything other than socks on tatami, as they are intended for peace and relax

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