Charli XCX shocked followers at Coachella 2025 by bringing Lorde out to carry out their ‘Lady, so complicated’ remix. Test it out under.
The second occurred throughout Charli’s set on the Californian competition final night time (April 12), which additionally noticed shock friends Troye Sivan and Billie Eilish take to the stage.
When introducing the remix of ‘Lady, so complicated’, Charli informed the group to “dedicate this one to your bestie”, earlier than asking: “Will you assist me sing this tune with my pal, please?”
Lorde then appeared to sing the tune’s second verse – her addition to the observe’s remix on ‘Brat and it’s utterly completely different but in addition nonetheless brat‘.
The collaboration got here following the discharge of Charli’s latest album ‘Brat‘, the place the singer explored her difficult relationship with Lorde, having beforehand revealed her jealousy of the singer’s ‘Royals’ success. Upon listening to the tune, Lorde provided to write down a verse for the remix that will see them settle any rigidity.
Because the Coachella efficiency of the observe got here to a detailed, Charli informed the group 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 season 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
— overseas ☆ (@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 recent music.
Earlier this week, she shared much more of a brand new observe that features the traces: “Since I used to be 17, I gave you every little thing/ Now we wake from a dream, effectively child, what was that?/ What was that?”
In a four-star evaluate of ‘Brat’, NME wrote: “On the self-described “membership file”, XCX affords pure celebration woman 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 May Say One thing Silly’
‘Apple’
‘Lady, So Complicated’ (with Lorde)
‘All the pieces is Romantic’
‘Sympathy is a Knife’
‘Guess’ (with Billie Eilish)
‘365’
‘Monitor 10’
‘I Love It’
Elsewhere this weekend, Woman Gaga carried out a theatrical five-act set, A. G. Prepare dinner introduced out Danny Brown, performing a number of tracks earlier than remixing Charli XCX’s ‘Celebration 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 will likely be livestreaming the competition by way of the Coachella YouTube channel. Final yr’s version of the competition 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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