In her return to Coachella for the primary time in eight years, Girl Gaga dazzled the desert throughout her opening day headlining set final night time (April 11), debuting seven tracks from her newest album, MAYHEM, and doubtlessly giving a style of what to anticipate throughout her upcoming summer time North American tour.
The 20-song, practically two-hour efficiency was rife with elaborate choreography, costumes and set items, together with an opera home, a large chess board and a sandbox crammed with nylon-clad zombies. Gaga herself was decked out in the whole lot from feathers, a helmet and a black wig, and at instances moved across the stage with both a cane or metallic crutches.
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“I needed to make a romantic gesture to you,” she informed the group at one level. “I made a decision to construct you an opera home within the dessert.” All through, Gaga alternated stay premieres of latest tunes corresponding to “The Beast,” “Zombieboy,” “How Unhealthy Do U Need Me” and “Vanish Into You” with classics corresponding to “Poker Face,” “Alejandro” “Paparazzi” and “Shallow,” her highly effective vocals rising excessive above her band’s usually thunderous rock’n’roll assault.
The set’s solely visitor was French DJ Gesaffelstein, who reprised his contribution to the studio model of the funk-tinged pop banger “Killah.” Three songs close to the start had been performed for the primary time in years, together with opener “Bloody Mary,” which had been absent since 2018, and each “Judas” and “Scheiße,” which had been final heard in 2019.
Gaga wound down the present by performing “Die With a Smile” (sans Bruno Mars) at a piano nestled inside a cranium and the A Star Is Born anthem “Shallow.” “I all the time really feel so blessed to be with the viewers since you all the time educate me one thing profound,” she stated. “The reality is, we’re all one. It’s simply all one fucking factor.”
Different opening day Coachella highlights included Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong becoming a member of the Go-Go’s for “Head Over Heels,” Three 6 Mafia throwing a hip-hop get together with visitors Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, blink-182’s Travis Barker and Undertaking Pat, Mustard welcoming Tyga, YG, Massive Sean, Roddy Ricch and a pair of Chainz and Benson Boone getting a elevate from Queen guitarist Brian Could on the latter’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and his personal smash hit “Stunning Issues.”
Right here is Girl Gaga’s Coachella set listing:
Bloody Mary
Abracadabra
Judas
Scheiße
Backyard of Eden
Poker Face
Excellent Movie star
Illness
Paparazzi
Alejandro
The Beast
Killah (with Gesaffelstein)
Zombieboy
Die With a Smile
How Unhealthy Do U Need Me
Shadow of a Man
Kill for Love
Born This Approach
Shallow
Vanish Into You
Unhealthy Romance
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