But they didn't know what to make of her hair.

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Some fans loved it on the singer.

Others did not.

Zendaya told Entertainment Tonight before she went in the Staples Center for the show that she simply "wanted to try something different."

"This hair was actually kind of an out-of-the-blue type hair,"  she said. "I wanted to do the short blonde, but I wanted to do something different, so I was like, 'Let's do a mullet!"

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