Singer pops up unannounced earlier than Kevin Summary’s set to ship synth-laden rendition of hit nation single
Sky Ferreira made a shock cameo at Coachella Saturday when the singer appeared onstage earlier than Kevin Summary’s set to ship a canopy of Girl A’s “Want You Now.”
With none official announcement, the leather-based jacket and sunglasses-clad Ferreira sauntered out onstage to the shock of followers, and promptly debuted her synth-laden (and sadly abridged) rendition of the smash single by the nation band previously often known as Girl Antebellum.
Simply as mysteriously as she emerged, Ferreira departed, leaving the previous Brockhampton rapper Summary to start has set as deliberate.
After years of sporadic reside appearances — and even rarer releases of latest music — Ferreira has been extra energetic lately, together with a North American tour in late 2023 and a just-concluded Europe jaunt earlier this month.
All that exercise — together with a small position within the Justin Timberlake-starring crime thriller Reptile final yr — nonetheless, has not but resulted within the arrival of Ferreira’s now-mythic sophomore album Masochism, the long-long-awaited follow-up to her 2013 debut Evening Time, My Time.
Ferreira has been teasing the album for years: She dropped the ambient “Downhill Lullaby” in 2019, which appeared to sign {that a} new album would comply with shortly, nevertheless it didn’t come. In 2022 introduced “Don’t Neglect,” which once more pointed to the likelihood that her second set was forthcoming, nevertheless it has nonetheless didn’t arrive.
In a cryptic social media publish final yr, Ferreira urged unknown powers have been withholding the brand new music attributable to her being “troublesome“; Sky followers responded in flip with a Occasions Sq. billboard demanding that Capitol Information #FreeSkyFerreira.
