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I like Lana but I don't think she even sits at the same table as Dua.
Announcing a one-off show instead of a tour is kiddie table energy.
Selling out a stadium show in 8 minutes with zero notable hits since 2012 is impressive. Point blank.
...yeah if you just take that as the only metric for some arbitrary reason. Like, ok, she doesn't have "hits" but she's super famous and has tons of streams and album sales.
Selling a one-off stadium date means very little compared to the sort of tours that headliners often pull off.
Olivia def seems like a good bet for next year, not something I would plan on seeing but it makes sense. I keep hearing she’s like the female saviour or rock for Gen Z but it’s just giving me Avril? I don’t get it, but it’s not for me ha.
I don’t see Olivia getting booked until 2026 or does she already have a new album in the works for next year?
Selling out a stadium show in 8 minutes with zero notable hits since 2012 is impressive. Point blank.
...yeah if you just take that as the only metric for some arbitrary reason. Like, ok, she doesn't have "hits" but she's super famous and has tons of streams and album sales.
Selling a one-off stadium date means very little compared to the sort of tours that headliners often pull off.
I mean it’s a feat regardless. I don’t think many of her pop contemporaries would be able to.
Looked back at the set times for 2022 my first year.
1) so many more acts
2) so many better acts
I still liked these headliner more than 24, but overall it was just a little blah (Justice was probably the best thing I’ve ever seen at Coachella though). If next year isn’t an absolute home run of a lineup I’m taking that time and money on an international trip
I didn't go 2022 because my wife was a month away from giving birth to our second kid, but that lineup did absolutely nothing for me. Way too Top 40 for my tastes. There was plenty I would have loved to see, but I prefer '24 to '22 ('23 sweeps both, and really sweeps almost any NA lineup ever). But yeah there were hella more acts. That Coachella was a little overloaded because they needed to bring back all of the '20 acts that wanted to return, but also wanted to book new acts as well. '19 and '23 I think are more representative of the total number of acts (minus all the empty stages during '23 headliners).
I agree that there were far too few acts this year though.
I thought the same re: top 40 but when I look at the set times, the acts I saw, and the acts I skipped it was way better. I didn’t see most top 40 acts. I could’ve done a totally different weekend if I did bothchella and wouldn’t have seen anyone more “mainstream” than big Sean. Never considered seeing people like Flume lol. I actually find there’s more pop in this years festival, even if it’s “international pop” or someone like Chappell roan (no slight to her, but I’d consider that pop music).
This year a lot of the hours where the act I saw was more of an “I guess that seems to be the best one there.” Who would’ve been the third best option In similar spots in 23 or 22.
I think I had a better time in 24 because of the crew i was with and a better idea from experience of how I wanted to do each day/the festival, in addition to 22 being a little less efficiently organized on GVs side
Olivia def seems like a good bet for next year, not something I would plan on seeing but it makes sense. I keep hearing she’s like the female saviour or rock for Gen Z but it’s just giving me Avril? I don’t get it, but it’s not for me ha.
I don’t see Olivia getting booked until 2026 or does she already have a new album in the works for next year?
Being the first North American festival to snag her for a full set would be a pretty big deal, new album or not.
I get what you're saying but her having draw is not the same as her being good live, a lot of people didn't want her to headline because they believes she would be boring and she was. This doesn't make objections to her headlining invalid.
For me 2022 wasn't a strong year, overall. There's always going to be highlight sets every year and that year mine were The Marias, Turnstile, Denzel Curry off the top of my head. On paper the undercard was definitely stronger in 2022 but 2024 was more fun for my experience. The headliners weren't amazing to me. Harry was cool but would've been much better if Harry's House came out before Coachella. Billie is always good but I'd seen her before / she played a lot of SoCal shows already leading up to Coachella. SHM x Weeknd was as boring as Lana's set to me, truth be told. SHM was really dry and I don't enjoy Weeknd live very much.
I get what you're saying but her having draw is not the same as her being good live, a lot of people didn't want her to headline because they believes she would be boring and she was. This doesn't make objections to her headlining invalid.
It’s subjective. Seems she didn’t win a ton of fans, but all her fans whom I spoke to were over the moon with her performance. I wasn’t trying to do that after Justice for more than a song or two but I really enjoyed it on the livestream the following week.
Additionally it bears need repeating that she most likely pushed more tickets than any other individual act on the lineup. As in “I saw her name so I bought tickets.” Just as well, there seems to be strong consensus that this trio wasn’t the first choices, particularly Tyler and doja.
Plus as a Lana hater, I still think it's clear she was "Plan A" - by her own admission she was booked almost a year in advance. Based on big leaks and public info, the OG plan seems to have been Lana/Tyler/RATM and they were chasing Stones, Talking Heads, Dua, Taylor for the 4th. RATM dropped out, they couldn't get their fourth whale, so they ran to Doja and threw $ at No Doubt. They always wanted Lana, but clearly also were hoping that they would have a much bigger headliner too.
I'm a really big Lana fan, think Norman Rockwell is one of the best albums of that decade, and have huge respect for her recorded output across her whole career. But, the show at Coachella had so many fundamental problems. I wasn't surprised it wasn't great, but the setlist didn't play to her strengths, and clustered a lot of similar sounding songs in the first half, and very low key slow songs in the second half. At least week 2, the second half was much stronger, "Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd." was beautiful, and "Candy Necklace" was really nice, but on the ground, people were definitely flagging. Almost all her songs are a bit low key, but she picked some of the most low energy, stripped down tracks, where something like "The Greatest" or "Mariners Apartment Complex" would have been a nice energy boost.
It feels like a lot of Coachella headliners who underwhelm tailor a show to their fans (like Lady Gaga or Doja Cat did), unaware that you're dealing with a crowd who is very tired and probably not there just to see you. Anecdotally, it seemed like No Doubt had the most people who were there just to see them (and were wearing Gwen inspired outfits, etc.), while Lana pulled the second biggest crowd.
2022 was a great lineup, just the headliners sucked (didn't see any of them except the weeknd/shm)
arcade fire (lucky for us w1 people) the avalanches spiritualized IDLES the marias PUP jean dawson caroline polachek japanese breakfast turnstile caribou hot chip (featuring a beastie boy special appearance!) viagra boys denzel curry jamie xx griselda quacking fred again..
perhaps it was just perfect for my tastes but i would take it over 2024 in a heartbeat
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2022 was a great lineup, just the headliners sucked (didn't see any of them except the weeknd/shm)
arcade fire (lucky for us w1 people) the avalanches spiritualized IDLES the marias PUP jean dawson caroline polachek japanese breakfast turnstile caribou hot chip (featuring a beastie boy special appearance!) viagra boys denzel curry jamie xx griselda quacking fred again..
perhaps it was just perfect for my tastes but i would take it over 2024 in a heartbeat
Forgot about Japanese Breakfast, Jean Dawson, Nilufer Yanya, Baby Keem, Carly Rae.. very good undercard for sure