Despite the noise of various peanut galleries on the drop in sales, interests and influence of tickets, the Festival of Music and Artists Coachella undoubtedly remains the largest music festival in the world and undoubtedly one of the largest world platforms for the recording of artists. This year was no exception: this is what happened like gangbusters, and what did not do it …
Victories::
The Blockbusters: Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion, Charli XCX
Like the Super Bowl, if you are headlining Coachella, you show the fuck. Lady Gaga and Megan Thee Stallion clearly obtained this note, with the beginnings of a production that put the spirit as the first date of a world tour (the Gaga “Mayhem” game, which included imposing structures, a complete group and on two terminals of the Latifah, Ciara and Victoria) or Victoria). Other first-rate artists who delivered stellar performances, although less without precaution, included Green Day, Missy Elliott and Charli XCX, who released a multitude of guests who had already joined her in turn she has several dates of North American and European tour reserved until the end of the summer. The other surprises included LL COOL J, Cynthia Erivo and a Rauque Dave Grohl joining the Philharmonic, and the appearance during the two -end weekend by Ed Sheeran which attracted a larger crowd than the Mojave tent could hold with just a loop pedal and a guitar – and then joined the head of the head of the head of the Malone head.
Les Percées: Benson Boone, The Marias, Clairo
Boone is perhaps best known for his Smash in 2024 “Beautiful Things”, but has shown that he was also a world class interpreter, and that he bravely approached the Queen’s Queen, the Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and has not only succeeded, but obtained a Cosign from Brian May from the group, who joined him for performance. The Marías have shown what the underground buzz was talking about, offering a vast and theatrical performance of their famous LP “submarine”; The singer Maria Zardoya shows the great power. Finally, Clairo not only led his performance on the weekend with a speech by Senator Bernie Sanders-“This country faces very difficult challenges, and the future of what happens to America depends on your generation,” he said-but has shown enormous progress as a interpret, with a set of song half-Tempor and has changed visions of Christine Indie.
“Live”
The Grammy Awards and VMAs are famous to produce, requiring both meticulous rehearsals and directors with capillary trigger reflexes to surprise the surprises in the moment. Imagine now do something very similar, but over three days instead of three hours, with several artists and seven different stages – and simultaneous -, sometimes on a stadium size scale, which was certainly the case with the massive productions of Lady Gaga and Travis Scott. Since 2011, YouTube has provided the best headquarters in the house, with a world -class and musically informed direction, production and camera work by a stellar team that hardened the same heat, the same wind and the cold as the artists and the public. Their work is as stimulating and heroic as many artists – this is probably the best concert in concert that you will see anywhere.
Less winning …
Desert heat
Despite the perennial dust and the wind, April was generally nice to Coachella – but the three -digit temperatures of this year were excruciating for many, especially when the long process is suppressed to enter the fields of 333 acres of the festival. For the weekend, a car car, some declared to wait in their vehicles without access to water or toilet until 12 hours while temperatures in Indio climbed to 106 ° F (41 ° C) on the first day of the festival, which makes it the hottest trained.
Strict adjustment
A Festival on the Coachella scale must operate in time and delays of more than a few minutes, it does not matter that the cause can have a massive domino effect which affects not only the artists and the 125,000 people frequented daily, but for the people producing (and the millions of people who look) live broadcast. Even Megan Thee Stallion cut the microphone when she ran a few more minutes, and the technical difficulties of Rema brought her little mercy during the weekend, when he was on stage for only 15 minutes, although he redeemed himself with a strong and complete weekend.
Political controversy
This is something that Bernie Sanders urged generation Z to get involved, as Confo did before his set. And it is a thing to make a rapid humanitarian reference to war in Gaza, as Green Day did when they modified a word to “flee pain / like the children of Palestine”. But display the words “Fuck Israel / Free Palestine” on the screen during a representation, as did the Irish rap trio, not only alienate a considerable percentage of the public that you try to influence, but any nuance in this declaration on this extremely polarizing subject – which was probably a comment against the government of Netanyahu rather than that of an antisemitic – is completely lost. Additional demerites to make such declarations during a music festival.
