Camila Cabello is defending one of her backup dancers after the performer was accused of wearing blackface while appearing on The Tonight Show.
The 24-year-old singer addressed the criticism on Twitter Sunday after critics took issue with the heavy stage makeup worn by dancer Dylan Pearce while performing Cabello's new single "Don't Go Yet," likening the look to blackface.
"Camila what was going on with Dylan's makeup?...having a dancer do blackface on stage in 2021 is absurd and you know better than that! say something immediately," one Twitter user wrote.
Cabello issued a statement shortly after receiving backlash for Pearce's look.
"So this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan," Cabello wrote. "We purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin. There are white people, African American people, latin people, etc. and so the point wasn't to try to make everyone look Latin either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not."
Cabello also shared a shot of Pearce from the Tonight Show, showing the dancer in an unbuttoned magenta shirt, khaki slacks and white sneakers. He was also styled with a mullet and gold chain necklace.
"The point was to try to make each person look like an over-the-top 80's character just like in the video, including a white dude with a terrible orange spray tan, " she added.
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