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Coachella 2024: women save the day as festival suffers an identity crisis
Ticket sales might have lagged for the once-unbeatable double weekender but an array of crowd-pleasing female acts made it a worthwhile journey
Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for CoachellaMy soul left my body for a moment when Kesha walked out to support Reneé Rapp, altering the opening line of her recession-core banger Tik Tok to “wake up in the morning saying fuck P Diddy,” amid allegations of sexual assault against Sean Combs. When it came time for Ice Cream Man, a raw and unflinching account of Raye’s sexual assault at the hands of a music producer, she left every woman I could see in my section wiping away tears – myself included – and the many of the men staring solemnly down at their feet, unable to make eye contact. ), Deftones playing so loudly the vibrations made the porta-potty in the press pen shake (I narrowly avoided disaster), the Tuareg rocker Mdou Moctar jumping into the pit to rock out with the front row, and the fratty-but-fun crowd at Neil Frances (shoutout to Andy, the stranger who danced with me during Music Sounds Better With You).
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