Throwback jams and energy duets set the tone for the second weekend of this 12 months’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition, that includes shock appearances from Lizzo, Hayley Williams and Kendrick Lamar.
On Friday, headliner Types and Lizzo joined forces for some disco-boyband enjoyable. And rapper Child Keem despatched hip-hop followers right into a frenzy by bringing out Lamar, his cousin, for a reside efficiency of their Grammy-winning collab.
Headliner Billie Eilish sprinkled some pop-punk magic into her set with a little bit assist from Paramore front-woman Williams on Saturday. Right here’s a rundown of the very best Coachella Weekend 2 moments thus far.
Types and Lizzo channel One Path
Pop friends and besties Types and Lizzo journeyed into the previous for a wonderful duet of Gloria Gaynor’s disco basic “I Will Survive,” adopted by a nostalgic rendition of the One Path anthem “What Makes You Stunning.”
(Former One Path heartthrob Types has repeatedly returned to his boy band roots in live performance regardless of launching a wildly profitable solo profession 5 years in the past.)
Draped in vibrant feather coats, the pair of hitmakers smiled, danced and harmonized, a lot to the glee of the full of life viewers. The musicians beforehand united onstage for a dynamic efficiency of Lizzo’s hit “Juice” after Types’ cowl of the observe went viral in 2019.
“Final evening was superb,” Lizzo wrote Saturday on Instagram.
"[Styles] is a treasure, gods present to rock n roll, the sunshine that comes from him is actual and infinite.. he makes being on stage in entrance of a whole bunch n hundreds simple, cus it’s w a pal. His staff is unimaginable— and child them Gucci coats….?!?? Thanks H, like u stated ‘till subsequent time.’”
Lamar and Keem are cousin targets
It’s solely becoming that Lamar stepped out to carry out his verse from Keem’s “Household Ties,” which received the Grammy for rap efficiency earlier this month.
“Oh, s—!” Keem exclaimed as Lamar made his grand entrance and cheers erupted from the group. Feeding off the thundering bass and one another’s vitality, the cousins bounced and rapped in unison as neon pyrotechnics lit up the stage.
Lamar additionally contributed to Keem’s efficiency of “Vent” from the latter’s 2021 album “The Melodic Blue.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning artist’s Coachella cameo got here days after he introduced that his long-anticipated new album, “Mr. Morale & the Large Steppers,” is ready to reach Could 13.
Coachella marks Lamar’s second main California live performance efficiency this 12 months after the hip-hop celebrity joined forces with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre for the 2022 Tremendous Bowl halftime present at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
Eilish and Williams go full Paramore
Eilish and Williams threw it again to the early 2000s for an acoustic duet of Paramore’s pop-punk anthem “Distress Enterprise.”
It’s value noting that Paramore made a acutely aware choice in 2018 to cease performing “Distress Enterprise” for “a very very long time” after some deemed the music about two ladies competing for a similar man anti-feminist.
“Wow ... my first Coachella,” Williams stated after embracing Eilish onstage. “Thanks for sharing this with me. That is sick!”
Williams later returned to the stage in the course of the climactic second half of Eilish’s hit single “Happier Than Ever.”
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