Not everyone was flipping for Sabrina Carpenter ’s recent Saturday Night Live performance. The pop star’s live debut of her Man’s Best Friend track “Nobody’s Son” has been criticized for a lack of “respect and care” for Japanese culture. Singer Rina Sawayama pointed out why the staging was culturally inappropriate in a post about one piece of wardrobe.

During her stint as both host and musical guest on SNL ’s Oct. 18 episode, Carpenter added an extra kick to her second musical number by singing “Nobody’s Son” live for the first time, channeling the track’s angsty rage into stylized karate choreography. Throughout the song, martial artists sparred with one another behind Carpenter, until the singer got involved herself by nonchalantly chopping planks of wood in half and landing

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