Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat have allegedly been chosen to headline this 12 months’s for Coachella 2024, together with Lana del Rey.
Hits Each day Double reported Friday (January 5) that their sources confirmed each Tyler and Lana, whereas including that Doja continues to be in contract negotiations.
The location additionally stories that Travis Scott was in conversations for a headlining slot as effectively, however apparently issues didn’t shake out.
Hopefully Tyler, The Creator can ease the ache felt by Odd Future followers at Coachella in 2023 when Frank Ocean unceremoniously pulled out of the two-weekend efficiency after a disappointing first set that started over an hour late.
The R&B star introduced three days earlier than his scheduled return that he’d been pressured to again out resulting from an harm. Blink-182 was then lined up as his alternative.
In line with Pitchfork, Frank was suggested by his physician to relaxation up after struggling two fractures and a sprain in his left leg previous to his first efficiency.
“It was chaotic,” the Blonde crooner mentioned of his aforementioned set in an announcement. “There may be some magnificence in chaos. It isn’t what I supposed to point out however I did get pleasure from being on the market and I’ll see you quickly.”
Ocean’s broken leg, which was initially mentioned to be a “severe ankle harm,” first got here to gentle when he reportedly damage himself whereas using a motorbike across the Coachella pageant grounds simply days earlier than his large efficiency.
His accidents maybe helped to elucidate the considerably disorganized and disappointing set he delivered through the pageant’s first weekend. After gracing the stage late, Frank devoted roughly 1 / 4 of his 80-minute set to a “rave combine” from DJ Crystallmess and later lip-synced a few of his personal songs, together with “Nikes” and “Nights.”
Followers at residence have been anticipating to livestream the efficiency on YouTube, however the broadcast was mysteriously pulled on the final minute.
In the meantime again in Indio, California, the present additionally ended on an abrupt and anticlimactic notice, with Frank telling the group: “Guys, I’m being instructed it’s curfew, in order that’s the top of the present. Thanks a lot.”
Coachella organizers have been reportedly fined $117,000 for violating the curfew by not less than 20 minutes every night time of the primary weekend.
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In line with TMZ, Frank Ocean’s set was alleged to function an ice rink and over 100 hockey gamers and determine skaters, who had spent weeks rehearsing for the efficiency. However after they arrived at Coachella that Sunday, they have been instructed the skating routine had been scrapped.
As an alternative, among the hockey gamers and skaters joined Frank on stage as background dancers (or extra precisely, walkers) and have been draped in customized Prada.
“It’s a nightmare,” one of many hockey gamers, Dan Powers, mentioned of the last-minute change of plans on his Empty Netters podcast. “We sit at this resort and we run into the determine skaters — these Olympic determine skaters, thoughts you. They usually have a disgruntled look on their faces, they usually casually point out to us that they only obtained a cellphone name they usually’ve been minimize from the present.”
“The one factor that made me genuinely unhappy [after] spending a while with [Frank Ocean] during the last a number of weeks: He actually cares concerning the manufacturing.”
Dan’s brother, Chris, added: “He had a really clear imaginative and prescient, and despite the fact that that imaginative and prescient modified rather a lot, he was at all times on us, serving to us, ensuring everybody hit what he was picturing in his thoughts.”
