Post Malone wraps Coachella with genre-fluid performance

Put up Malone electrified Coachella as Sunday’s headlining set, melding his early rap hits together with his latest nation flip to shut out the primary weekend of the California desert competition.

Round 100,000 festival-goers braved scorching temperatures to attend the sprawling desert weekend competition that additionally noticed performances by Woman Gaga, Charli XCX and Inexperienced Day.

Put up Malone sported denims with a tucked-in tee for his laid-back set that noticed him mild up a cigarette and lavish reward on his viewers.

As he carried out his smash “Sunflower,” he left them with a parting message: “Keep spreading love, keep giving love, keep receiving love. No matter what you’re going through right now, ladies and gentlemen, you’re loved more than you know it.”

Forward of Put up’s marquee efficiency, hip-hop famous person Megan Thee Stallion dominated the primary stage, bringing visitor stars Queen Latifah and Ciara out to play.

And German digital pioneers Kraftwerk packed a tent of followers keen for his or her trailblazing conceptual soundscapes.

The long-lasting group whose work is incessantly cited as era-defining delivered, taking part in hits together with “Computer Love” and their best-known music, “Autobahn.”

Shaboozey kicked off Sunday together with his viral model of nation that not too long ago earned him a Grammy nomination for Finest New Artist.

South Korea’s Jennie electrified the stage with a solo efficiency days after her Blackpink bandmate Lisa — recent off a task in HBO’s hit present “The White Lotus” — did the identical.

And France’s Polo & Pan — the duo that has discovered fame with its model of digital infused with tropical influences — are making ready for a primetime DJ slot for his or her second spherical taking part in Coachella.

The group is shaped by Paul Armand-Delille and Alexandre Grynszpan, the latter of whom instructed AFP backstage they really feel honored to return to the desert and really feel “a responsibility to represent France.”

“Coachella is definitely a global institution when it comes to festivals,” he stated.

On Saturday Charli XCX bathed the desert in her signature “brat” lime inexperienced to shut out her banger set that pays homage to her sensational yr, with cameos together with Troye Sivan, Lorde and Billie Eilish, whose look whipped the gang right into a frenzy.

The looks of Eilish triggered hysteria rivaled solely by the gang’s mad sprint to the stage subsequent door, the place Senator Sanders made a shock look to thunderous applause.

The self-described socialist from Vermont has been on his personal “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with US Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bid to harness anger over the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration.

– Inexperienced Day, Gaga, Gustavo –

The one-two punch of Charli XCX’s club-ready efficiency adopted instantly by Sanders’s rousing name to motion left Coachella followers able to rock by the point headliners Inexperienced Day took the stage.

The career-spanning efficiency crammed greater than 90 minutes with hits — together with “Brain Stew,” “Minority,” “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around” — a reminder of the grip the rockers had on fashionable music all through their Nineteen Nineties and 2000s heyday.

Gustavo Dudamel led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a sweeping sundown present that married orchestral preparations with an eclectic crop of collaborators, together with rapper LL Cool J, nation star Maren Morris and Icelandic jazz-inspired pop singer Laufey.

Woman Gaga kicked off the competition with a three-act story of mayhem channeling her newest album, however did dole out her classics to the delight of her ardent followers.

Her rendition of “Poker Face” noticed Gaga taking part in towards her dancers in an enormous chess recreation — the kind of efficiency artwork that made her one of many up to date period’s seminal pop stars.

And Missy Elliott dealt a blistering, headliner-worthy present that includes trippy visuals, lasers and her smashes together with “Lose Control,” “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It.”

Coachella’s second weekend — which options the identical lineup, save for cameo shakeups and occasional particular options — will happen April 18-20.

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