Sabrina Carpenter rocks sizzling NUDE look at Coachella Night 1 as she sets crowd ablaze with headline set

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 sent viewers into a tizzy with see-through black lace bodysuit meant to look as though she had no underwear on beneath it.

She saved her head-turning look for the end of her performance, when she delivered a medley of her smash hit songs Juno, Espresso and Goodbye.

Fans were sent into paroxysms of excitement as she whirled through the numbers on a set meant to evoke the glitz and kitsch of Old Hollywood.

When she performs Juno onstage, she often mock-arrests a celebrity in front of the audience with fuzzy handcuffs, bringing on names ranging from Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown to Spice Girls icon Emma Bunton.

She went without a famous guest for Juno, but over the course of her set brought on three legacy actors - Susan Sarandon, Will Ferrell and Sam Elliot - as well as her onetime Girl Meets World co-star Corey Fogelmanis.

Her set was preceded by an evocative film noir video segment in which Carpenter was pulled over on a lonely country road by a cop played by Elliot.

When she inquired what law she had broken, he replied that she had done nothing wrong and explained he had stopped her purely because he was 'curious' about her.

On learning she was en route to California, he warned her: 'You know it’s not right out there, yeah? It’s wrong. This is the kinda place where you wanna stay safe.'

Upon arriving at Coachella, Carpenter thundered onstage to an explosion of applause and barreled into an 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.'

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. 

Her next song Nobody's Son saw her sitting at a busy bar, otherwise populated by festive patrons as she sang wanly about 'third wheeling' for her friends.

Carpenter followed that number up with Because I Liked a Boy, which was about the public opprobrium she was heaped with because of her love triangle with Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett early in her career.

'Now I'm a homewrecker, I'm a slut, I got death threats fillin' up semitrucks,' she sang: 'Tell me who I am, guess I don't have a choice, all because I liked a boy.'

She whirled through a succession of songs including My Man on Willpower - and then introduced a surprise celebrity cameo to the proceedings.

At a drive-in movie filled with vintage vehicles, Susan Sarandon said: 'What a moron I was, running around like nobody's gonna judge you, just bippity-boppity-boo, but of course, everyone's judging you. What about that? What are you gonna do about that? Care? Of course you care.'

The monologue may have been interpreted by fans as a glancing reference to her recent remarks about having become persona non grata in Hollywood over her remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

'You are supposed to care,' she said. 'I look happy, though, I do. What is it that Franny always says when she looks at pictures of me from way back in the day? S***, what was it? She was so cute. It was so cute.'

She then revealed herself to be playing an aged version of Carpenter, recalling that 'Franny,' whoever she is, would say when looking at pictures of her: 'Aunt Sabrina's happy but she doesn't smile.'

Sarandon continued by noting, in character as an old Carpenter, that her niece Franny watches her on YouTube but notes that the medium is not 'real.'

She added: 'It's a shame she never got to see me do anything real like a concert live in a real nice arena. You know what I would do? I would've made the label fly her and her mom and her dad to whatever country I was in and they'd be right down the hall from me in a really expensive hotel in whatever city I was in.'

However she clarified that her fantasy might not have been 'such a great idea' and 'might have been a little weird. In this way I'm just Aunt Sabrina, and that's real. It's maybe not that exciting but it's real.'

Carpenter then said that Franny's mother - presumably one of Carpenter's sisters Sarah, Cayla or Shannon - felt overshadowed by her being 'the center of attention.'

She mused: 'Anyway it must be impossible for a little girl to really understand what's going on onstage. I mean, all people think they know what it's like to be a star, that glow of all that attention, all those people rotating around you like little tiny planets.'

Those with a romantic view of stardom 'don't see all the nasty people, all of the vampires. They just see the light - and I like that.'

At the end of Sarandon's monologue, Carpenter's old Girl Meets World co-star Corey Fogelmanis appeared as a harried drive-in employee who arrives to close out her tab.

After her monologue, another nod to Cell Block Tango came - a percussion opening that eerily recalled the number - Carpenter's song Go Go Juice.

That performance was set in a dance studio, surrounded by her backup performers dashing around and doing their stretches in rehearsal gear.

The dance studio aesthetic continued into her performances of Such a Funny Way and Sugar Talking, both from her latest album Man's Best Friend. 

For her song Feather, she switched to showgirl mode, descending a Ziegfeld Follies staircase surrounded by scantily clad women in garters and black plumage.

The showgirls ditched the feathers for Carpenters' song Bed Chem, in which they grabbed chairs and twirled around them in choreography instantly reminiscent of Bob Fosse's for Liza Minnelli performing Mein Herr in Cabaret.

Another A-list celebrity cameo then ensued as Will Ferrell took the stage, playing a gruff exasperated crew member trying to deal with a power outage.

'This is why you do a tech run-through, but these guys didn't wanna do a tech run-through,' he grumbled. 'Waste of my day.' 

Grabbing a wire and putting a cigarette in his mouth, he huffed: 'Sabrina Carpenter, I don't know,' and complained of 'sleeping in my car' and dealing with a difficulty that arose because 'someone probably put a Diet Coke on the console board.' 

He failed to get his cigarette to light because of the wind, then admonished the young audience that 'Smoking's bad for your health anyway.'

When he purportedly got the power back on, the audience was treated to the sight of an Old Hollywood setup unfolding onstage to the Richard A. Whiting's iconic tune for the 1937 song Hooray for Hollywood.

Carpenter then materialized dressed as a cheesecake sex symbol of the 1930s pre-Code period and launched into her final medley of Juno, Espresso and Goodbye.

Friday's lineup included none other than Lose Control singer Teddy Swims, who brought on his own dazzling array of celebrity guest stars. 

Iconic rock star David Lee Roth appeared onstage to perform Jump - a song by his star-making band Van Halen - with Swims at his side. 

Singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton also took the stage with Swims, where they sang her debut single A Thousand Miles and as she accompanied them at the piano.

Demonstrating the range of Swims' musical interests, he also welcomed Joe Jonas onstage so they could perform the Jonas Brothers' When You Look Me in the Eye. 

Girl group KATSEYE were also on the bill that evening, regaling the audience with a medley of their hits including Pinky Up and Touch.

They also performed the Oscar-winning number Golden from KPop Demon Hunters, alongside the singers who introduced the song in the Netflix film.