Charli XCX shocked followers at Coachella 2025 by bringing Lorde out to carry out their ‘Lady, so complicated’ remix. Test it out beneath.
The second occurred throughout Charli’s set on the Californian pageant final evening (April 12), which additionally noticed shock visitors Troye Sivan and Billie Eilish take to the stage.
When introducing the remix of ‘Lady, so complicated’, Charli informed the gang to “dedicate this one to your bestie”, earlier than asking: “Will you assist me sing this music with my good friend, please?”
Lorde then appeared to sing the music’s second verse – her addition to the monitor’s remix on ‘Brat and it’s utterly completely different but additionally nonetheless brat‘.
The collaboration got here following the discharge of Charli’s latest album ‘Brat‘, the place the singer explored her sophisticated relationship with Lorde, having beforehand revealed her jealousy of the singer’s ‘Royals’ success. Upon listening to the music, Lorde supplied to write down a verse for the remix that may see them settle any pressure.
Because the Coachella efficiency of the monitor got here to a detailed, Charli informed the gang it could be a “Lorde summer season 2025,” passing the torch from the ‘Brat’ summer season of 2024.
Charli xcx performs Lady, So Complicated with particular visitor Lorde at Coachella.
“Lorde Summer time 2025” she says in the long run, referring to a possible characteristic on Lorde’s album dropping this summer season 🫣 pic.twitter.com/t20WZ1MJbp
— Atin 🕸 (@atinsmusic) April 13, 2025
CHARLI XCX & LORDE PERFORMED GIRL, SO CONFUSING AT COACHELLA OMG pic.twitter.com/AznCjdSsp5
— international ☆ (@clubpantheress) April 13, 2025
That is presumably in reference to the New Zealand pop star’s upcoming fourth album, which she’s been teasing since final summer season, when she wiped her social media after which shared precisely one second of latest music.
Earlier this week, she shared much more of a brand new monitor that features the traces: “Since I used to be 17, I gave you every little thing/ Now we wake from a dream, properly child, what was that?/ What was that?”
In a four-star evaluation of ‘Brat’, NME wrote: “On the self-described “membership document”, XCX affords pure social gathering lady hedonism. Percolating beats, brash synths, left-field manufacturing and vocal traces that flit between bratty quips or trustworthy one-liners.”
“With ‘Brat’, XCX demonstrates that going her personal approach will all the time sound fairly good,” it added.
Charli XCX’s Coachella 2025 setlist was:
‘365’
‘360’
‘Von Dutch’
‘Membership Classics’
‘Unlock It’
‘Speak Speak’ (with Troye Sivan)
‘I Would possibly Say One thing Silly’
‘Apple’
‘Lady, So Complicated’ (with Lorde)
‘Every little thing is Romantic’
‘Sympathy is a Knife’
‘Guess’ (with Billie Eilish)
‘365’
‘Observe 10’
‘I Love It’
Elsewhere this weekend, Girl Gaga carried out a theatrical five-act set, A. G. Prepare dinner introduced out Danny Brown, performing a bunch of tracks earlier than remixing Charli XCX’s ‘Get together 4 U’.
Inexperienced Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong additionally joined The Go-Go‘s on stage for a efficiency of their 1984 hit single ‘Head Over Heels’ and there was controversy throughout Kneecap‘s set after they led an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant, with followers reporting the net stream had minimize out shortly after.
YouTube might be livestreaming the pageant by way of the Coachella YouTube channel. Final yr’s version of the pageant was headlined by Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, The Creator and in addition noticed the return of No Doubt and extra.
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