Sabrina Carpenter electrifies Coachella Night 1 crowd with steamy headline set after starry lineup
Sabrina Carpenter set the crowd ablaze Friday night as she delivered her hotly anticipated headline set on the first day of Coachella.
The 26-year-old thundered onstage to an explosion of applause and barreled into a n upbeat performance of her love song House Tour.
Her statuesque figure was draped in a clinging sequined scarlet minidress that allowed her to show off her shapely legs.
She then delivered a steamy rendition of her song Taste, which was rumored to be a dig at her ex Shawn Mendes and his on-off love Camila Cabello.
Whirling through her saucy showgirl choreography, she danced on top of back-lit panels containing her backup dancers, in an inverted echo of Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Cell Block Tango number in the 2002 film Chicago.
Next came a rollicking performance of her 2024 hit Busy Woman, in which she warns a man who jilts her that ‘I’ll turn into someone you’re scared to know.’
Sabrina Carpenter set the crowd ablaze Friday night as she delivered her hotly anticipated headline set on the first day of Coachella
The 26-year-old thundered onstage to an explosion of applause and barreled into a n upbeat performance of her love song House Tour
Her statuesque figure was draped in a clinging sequined scarlet minidress that allowed her to show off her shapely legs
She then assures her uninterested quarry that she is a ‘busy woman,’ only for the song to take a turn with: ‘unless you call tonight.’
Her follow-up was Manchild, her scathing single directed at her ex Barry Keoghan and a song so beloved by her fans that she was able to hold the mic out and have them recite several of the lyrics for her from memory.
A clip played of Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe discussing jazz in the classic 1959 movie Some Like It Hot, giving Carpenter time for a quick-change.
She emerged in a slinky gold sequined bodysuit with a diaphanous cape that billowed around her as she crooned her song When Did You Get Hot?.
‘I can’t believe I’m headlining Coachella!’ she told the audience during one interlude before cheekily adding: ‘I can a little bit but it’s nicer to say that, right?’
Then, in a set made to resemble a recording studio, she sang her plaintive song Please Please Please, another single with Keoghan as its widely presumed target.
As she sat down at the piano to accompany herself for her next song, she was distracted by a yodeling fan who prompted her to joke: ‘Is this Burning Man?’
To a burst of excited shrieks from the audience, she delivered her first-ever live performance of her ballad We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night.
Leaving the recording studio, she strode across a set made to look like a city sidewalk at night, with cold mist blowing past the streetlight.
