We’re simply hours away from the primary weekend of Coachella 2024 kicking off, which means our Instagram and TikTok feeds are about to be filled with sun-drenched footage of the newest pageant fashions and a sprinkling of grainy movies exhibiting the performers.
This yr, Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat can be headlining the annual bash from Indio, California, whereas Skepta, Sabrina Carpenter, Blur, Grimes and Renee Rapp make up the line-up.
Gwen Stefani will even be hitting the stage for an enormous reunion together with her No Doubt bandmates, belting out a few of their greatest hits.
Nevertheless, regardless of the pageant being inside touching distance, there is no such thing as a denying that the hype has been nearly non-existent in comparison with earlier years.
There are presently only a few headlines surrounding the primary weekend, which finally offered out in February after lackluster ticket gross sales – weeks after they first went on sale.
Tickets have routinely disappeared inside hours for each pageant, however are presently nonetheless up for grabs for subsequent weekend, with the most cost effective normal admission passes going for $499, whereas the priciest VIP choice prices $1,269.
If making the go to to California isn’t within the playing cards for you, six levels can be streamed stay on YouTube, so you possibly can watch the headliners from the consolation of your personal house.
In keeping with the LA Occasions, 2023 marked the primary yr in over a decade that each weekends didn’t promote out and 2024 gross sales have been the slowest in a decade.
This will likely come as a shock as Coachella has utterly dominated the information cycle, and our social media feeds, in earlier years, with among the greatest names in music impressing the 125,000-strong crowd.
Who might overlook that pleasure reached fever pitch when Beyonce turned the pageant stage into her very personal live performance, blessing us with Beychella in 2018?
Harry Kinds remodeled the 2022 stage into his very personal Harry’s Home, whereas Ariana Grande, Infantile Gambino, the Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers, Drake and Girl Gaga have additionally carried out in earlier years.
All eyes have been on Indio Valley final yr when Frank Ocean’s set was thrown into chaos after he suffered an ankle harm, inflicting him to tug out of the headline slot on the second weekend of the pageant.
Blink-182 have been drafted in to take his spot, closing out Coachella 2023 in model.
Unpacking the difficulty with this yr’s festivities on social media, many urged that the line-up might need one thing to do with it.
Reddit consumer Horatiavelvetina stated: ‘To be trustworthy, it simply doesn’t seem to be enjoyable. And like a very exhausting pageant that simply hardly ever hardly ever makes it price it.’
Celj1234 agreed: ‘Coachella has excessive expectations. The pageant will nonetheless be nice and a superb time however for most of the people they missed the mark with the lineup this yr. W2 is already under facevalue.
‘I can’t recall one other time in current historical past the general public was this down/mehh on a coachella lineup [sic].’
Artistic-Coconut replied: ‘Coachella appears to have misplaced its special-ness because the years go by. It occurs, it’s a traditional factor however now, it simply looks as if another pageant getting worse and extra frequent acts. Not a foul factor essentially – only a factor.’
As Future-Lover- slated: ‘I really like music festivals however Coachella stopped being cool over 10 years in the past at this level. I’d solely ever go if I have been being paid for some cause.’
Regardless of the dip in curiosity, Coachella bosses aren’t stated to be nervous – Dave Brookes, Billboard’s senior director of stay music and touring telling the LA Time that this can be a ‘pure off-cycle’.
‘I don’t purchase that the Coachella model is completely diminished in any respect,’ he insisted.
‘Clearly this was an off-year, [but] it’s hands-down the most effective experiences on the market.’
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