Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat have allegedly been chosen to headline this yr’s for Coachella 2024, together with Lana del Rey.
Hits Daily Double reported Friday (January 5) that their sources confirmed each Tyler and Lana, whereas including that Doja continues to be in contract negotiations.
The web site additionally studies 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 attributable to an damage. Blink-182 was then lined up as his substitute.
According to 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 is some beauty in chaos. It isn’t what I intended to show but I did enjoy being out there and I’ll see you soon.”
Ocean’s broken leg, which was initially mentioned to be a “serious ankle injury,” first got here to gentle when he reportedly damage himself whereas driving a motorbike across the Coachella competition grounds simply days earlier than his huge efficiency.
His accidents maybe helped to clarify the considerably disorganized and disappointing set he delivered in the course of the competition’s first weekend. After gracing the stage late, Frank devoted roughly 1 / 4 of his 80-minute set to a “rave mix” from DJ Crystallmess and later lip-synced a few of his personal songs, together with “Nikes” and “Nights.”
Fans at dwelling had been anticipating to livestream the efficiency on YouTube, however the broadcast was mysteriously pulled on the final minute.
Meanwhile again in Indio, California, the present additionally ended on an abrupt and anticlimactic be aware, with Frank telling the group: “Guys, I’m being told it’s curfew, so that’s the end of the show. Thank you so much.”
Coachella organizers had been reportedly fined $117,000 for violating the curfew by at the least 20 minutes every evening of the primary weekend.
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According to TMZ, Frank Ocean’s set was purported to function an ice rink and over 100 hockey gamers and determine skaters, who had spent weeks rehearsing for the efficiency. But after they arrived at Coachella that Sunday, they had been instructed the skating routine had been scrapped.
Instead, a number of the hockey gamers and skaters joined Frank on stage as background dancers (or extra precisely, walkers) and had 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 hotel and we run into the figure skaters — these Olympic figure skaters, mind you. And they have a disgruntled look on their faces, and they casually mention to us that they just got a phone call and they’ve been cut from the show.”
“The one thing that made me genuinely sad [after] spending some time with [Frank Ocean] over the last several weeks: He really cares about the production.”
Dan’s brother, Chris, added: “He had a very clear vision, and even though that vision changed a lot, he was always on us, helping us, making sure everyone hit what he was picturing in his mind.”
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