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Coachella 2025 Report Card: The Great (Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion), the Good (Green Day) and the Ugly
Coachella 2025 was two great weekends of music, with stellar sets from Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion, Green Day and more. But it wasn't all great...
Desert Heat Despite perennial dust and wind, April has generally been kind to Coachella — but this year’s triple-digit temperatures were excruciating for many, especially when enduring the long process of getting in and out of the festival’s 333-acre grounds. For weekend one car campers, some reported waiting in their vehicles without access to water or restrooms for up to 12 hours as temperatures in Indio soared to 106°F (41°C) on the first day of the festival, making this the hottest Coachella on record. And it’s one thing to make a quick, humanitarian reference to the war in Gaza, as Green Day did when they altered a lyric to be “Running away from pain/ Like the kids from Palestine.” But displaying the words “Fuck Israel / Free Palestine” on the screen during a performance, as Irish rap trio Kneecap did, not only alienates a sizable percentage of the audience you’re trying to influence, but any nuance in that statement on this enormously polarizing subject — which was presumably a comment against the Netanyahu government’s militarism rather than an antisemitic one — is completely lost.
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