After the billboard promoting her Coachella 2025 efficiency was vandalised, Clairo has responded, saying the graffiti was “very cool”.
Forward of Coachella’s first weekend kicking off, billboards selling the artists enjoying on the competition started to pop up alongside the freeway from Los Angeles to Indio, as is custom.
On Friday (April 11), activist artwork collective Indecline posted a photograph of a billboard that they’d revised in a single day. Promoting a Saturday set from Clairo on the Outside Theatre, initially, it learn: “I acquired charmed at Coachella,” a reference to the ‘Juna‘ singer’s final album, ‘Allure‘.
Final night time, Indecline swapped “charmed” for “fucked” on the billboard, with a subsequent Instagram caption seemingly denouncing the consumerism related to the competition, studying: “Late Stage Capitalism headlining the Fundamental Stage of America.”
Clairo has since responded, first commenting: “Sadly for me, that is very cool. Lol” beneath the put up, and later sharing the photographs to X/Twitter, the place she joked: “If you happen to’re fortunate.”
If you happen to’re fortunate pic.twitter.com/bERE5orVf8
— claire cottrill (@clairo) April 11, 2025
Elsewhere, digital duo Snow Strippers additionally had their billboard vandalised to learn the phrase “GRIM” in large letters, with Stereogum reporting that it was later lined with a brand new art work selling the artists.
Again in 2022, Norwegian DJ Matoma purchased numerous billboards on the highway into Coachella to lift consciousness and funds for the Ukraine reduction effort. Put up in collaboration with the Music Saves UA charity, they learn: “DROP BEATS NOT BOMBS” and featured the blue and yellow of the Ukraine flag.
As for this yr’s version of the Californian competition, issues are nicely underway, with Friday’s headliner Girl Gaga wrapping up her headline set within the early hours this morning (April 12).
Regardless of being hailed by followers because the “greatest Coachella present of all time”, many have been beset by journey points earlier than getting by means of the gates, with some reporting “horrendous” 12-hour waits in a visitors jam.
The first wave of artists confirmed for this yr’s version was shared again in November, when it was revealed that Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Publish Malone and Travis Scott could be headlining. Different artists on the invoice embody Missy Elliott, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion, solo performances from BLACKPINK‘s Lisa and Jennie, Benson Boone, the unique Misfits, Zedd, The Prodigy, Beabadoobee, Clairo, Enhypen and extra.
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