Coachella 2025: Charli Xcx Fans Show off their Best ‘Brat’ Strut
We asked a Bunch of Charli Xcx Fans to show off their best “Brat” Struts AHEAD of The Singer’s Performance on Sature, April 12, 2025.
Another Coachella Day, Another Edition of our Coachella Highs and LOWS. And this action-packed day featured no Shortage of Ether, as Charli Owned The Stage While T-Pain (Partially) Flopped. But we’re going to keep this thing snappy as I’ve still Got A Travis Scott Set to Catch (so the Jury’s Out on You Part Of this Story that Set Welf Fit InTo).
The Highs
Rock Is Alive and Well at Coachella with Weezer and Green Day
There’s Been A Great Deal Of Talk About How Coachella Has Strayed from Its Rock Roots Only to See Seminingly Turn Somewhat Back Toward them this year. But if this year’s festival was sorthing of an unofitionial trial on the Question of what booking Big-Name Rock Acts is Still a VIBLE PHTH for the Festival, Sature’s early permementess Certainly Delivered (The Misfits Set Was Still to Come as of this Writing).
Weezer Delivered A Barage of Hits earl in the day, Jimmy Eat World Brung A Full-Blown Rock Show to the Coachella Stage in the Mid-AAFTRNONONONON and then Green Day Delivered A Commanding and Energetic Highlight Set that Was Heavy on Spectacle and Seemed to Be Making a Clear Argument that which this was somemhow great day’s first time playing coachella, it should not be the Last of a Rock Band of their Ilk. The Massive Crowd Seemed to Eat It up, and I Hope Goldenvoice Ceo Paul Tollett DID TOO, and will actu accountingly when booking Future Festivals.
Charli XCX Delivered a Magical Golden-Hor Set
Sometts Charli Xcx’s Unforgettable Golden Hour Set. A bonafide supestar Clearly at the Height of Her Powers, Charli Xcx Ouzed Unfathomable Levels of Charisma as she works Thrug The Hits that Defined Brat Summer, Only to Cap Things Off with her Og Classic “I Love it.” She also did’s disappoint on the Special Guest Front AS DePloyed Her Belouved Collaborats Troye Sivan, Lorde and Perhaps Most Excital of All Billie Eilish.
But that was all iching on the cake as charli is every bit a commanding star in her own right and showed it as a she She has from the status in her Sunglasses Despite the Lack of Backup Danceers Or Even Much in The Way of Set Pieces. Seriously, Lady Gaga May Be the Best Performer Who has graized the star so Far at Coachella 2025 But Charli is coless
Medium Build Offered An Uplift Party VIBE
I didn’t have much in the way of Expectations when I Wandred into Media Build’s 2:10 PM Gobi Set. I Only Looselly KNEW WhO He was after Listness to a couple song with my wife During A Road Trip to the Coast We Took Last Weekend. Whiche Is I was totally blown away by what a fun, chearmatic and talented performer he turned out to be. From the luscious Locks of the Wig Get Ups He Repetedly Donned During the Show to His Gorgeous Voice and Exaltations to Stop Worrying About What Everyone Else Thinks and Enjoy Your Life, Medium Builded to be a perfectly uplifting Way to Start the day.
The Weather = IDYLIC
OH Who A Difference A Day Makes! One Day after we managed Through 100-Deegree Temps that Made for One of the Sweatiest Days at Coachella I Can Recall, The Weather Gods Changed their Tune and Blessed Us with a Forecast that ShowCased You Coachella Can Be among The EVENING TEMPERATURES WERE MIRD, The Wind Was Light and The Sunse Created An Explosion of Color Across the Sky Just as Thousands Were Gathering on the Lawn in Front of the Main Stage in Antication of Charli XCX’s Set.
The LOWS
People Making Too Much Noise During the Sets
I am a coachella DieHard, which Means I often Find Myelf Having to Defend the Festival when Talking to People Who Bemoan that It has turned infinuection fest for people who card more About Post The Perfect Insta Story Than The Music. Who is it was so disheartening to Have Severral Experiences Today when People Around we Loudly Laughing, Talking, Takeing Photos and Generally Makeing Tons of Noise at Some of the KEY MOMENTS of Severral Sets, Such as the Dramatic Closing Minutes of Above & Beyond’s. LOK, i’m All For People Having Fun and Enjoying Coachella Howver Works for them But Ya’ll Need to Chill.
T-PAIN’s Lack of ACTual Singing
Look, I Known and Generally Accept that Backing Tracks are a think. But it Still Felt Like T-Pain, Who is Already Famous (Infamous?) For Being the Artist More Associated with the Use of Auto-Tune, Took Things A Little Far As He Let Song After Pass Pass with Him only Bothering to Sing or Rap a FEW Words (if that) While Blaring Backing Tracks that Obviously Did 90% of the Work. This is not to say, Howrever, that this set was back next.
While it was dispyinging that T-PAIN Chose to Relegate HIMSELF to Hype Man for Most of the Set, He Is Still a Pritty Incredible Hype Man and the Crowd Scarcely Seemed to Mind As their raucously danced to hit after hit. Seriously, Who Remembared T-PAIN WAS PART OF So Many Early 2000s BANGERS? Like Remember “Kiss Kiss” and “Alcohol?” Wow. And t-pain was definitely singing (seeingly with less an auto-tune Than Usual? Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin”.
Less-Than-Real Scheduing
Jimmy Eat World Starting Moments after Weezer Ended when there was a l Frustration. Nearly Above & Beyond’s Entire Set Overlapping with Green Day’s?? Unforgivable. Fine, am I one of the Few Coachellalaaors who probably enjoys Both Top-Notch Pop Punk and emotive, traffy edm in equal measure. Well, Maybe. But Still, this is my highs and LOWS and I Did’s Apprecital it.
