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When Charli XCX followers go to Coachella, they need to hear these membership classics — and the pop singer greater than delivered this weekend with a star-studded set that formally revived "Brat Summer season."
The 365 celebration lady turned the Indio, Calif., music pageant's essential stage right into a kinetic membership on Saturday night time, bringing her Brat tour to the desert. And she or he didn't do it alone — Troye Sivan, Lorde, and Billie Eilish all joined her on stage at completely different factors throughout her energetic efficiency as shock company, drawing main reactions from the group.
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Charli first introduced out Sivan for a redux of their "Discuss Discuss" efficiency from their joint Sweat tour final yr. "I'm so f—ing obsessive about you, Charli!" Sivan yelled into the microphone after they gyrated and strutted everywhere in the stage collectively to cheers.
Subsequent, Charli and Lorde labored it out on the remix of "Lady, So Complicated," with the group going wild at Lorde's shock emergence on stage. The pop icons as soon as once more put their points behind them by way of music, passionately tackling the complexities of womanhood and their former feud earlier than hugging. Charli then sang into the Auto-Tuned microphone, "Lorde summer time 2025!"
Lastly, after kicking off her "Guess" remix efficiency yelling, "That's proper, bitch!" and singing the primary verse and refrain on her personal, Charli welcomed Eilish on stage to hitch her. The viewers went loopy once more as Eilish dove into her verse, giving new taste to their 2024 collaboration. Each singers jumped round by way of the top of the music, after they hugged and Charli screamed, "I f—ing love you, bitch!"
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The remainder of the set included the remaining Brat songs (one fortunate fan even received to carry out the "Apple" dance on display screen). Charli carried out solely three songs not from that album: "Unlock It," "Blame It on Your Love," and her shock nearer, Icona Pop's "I Love It," which she co-wrote.
Watch a compilation of all of Charli's particular Coachella 2025 company performing within the video under.
However the singer had yet one more shock in retailer earlier than wrapping the pitch-perfect set. As Charli left the stage, an equally real and unserious message appeared scrawled on its big screens, delivered in bits and items that ended along with her begging her followers to not let Brat Summer season finish.
"Thanks a lot Coachella," her message started. "Does this imply that Brat Summer season is lastly over????? … Idk? … Perhaps? … yeah cuz duh it was already over like final yr. … wait… was it? … NO???… I don't know who I’m if it's over??? F——-… Wait… I remembered… I'm Charli XCX… and truthfully… I simply need this second to final eternally… PLEASE DON'T LET IT BE OVER."
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Again in September 2024, Charli declared the top of Brat Summer season on social media. And after lime-green billboards with the phrase "brat" scribbled out on them had been noticed on the freeway resulting in Coachella, it appeared as if Charli was about to declare a brand-new period. Now it appears she's operating it again as a substitute.
And we're definitely not complaining, as a result of Brat Summer season isn't simply an period — it's a popular culture motion that clearly simply retains getting larger. And it’ll proceed for at the very least yet one more week, as Charli is scheduled to return to Coachella for the second weekend on Saturday, April 19.
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