Lana Del Rey duets with Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste

Lana Del Rey’s ethereal and dreamy music stylings took over the Coachella Stage Friday night time as she headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition. However first, she made fairly the epic entrance to kick issues off.

She, alongside along with her backup singers and dancers, pulled as much as the stage standing on the again of a motorbike with “Jealous Lady” enjoying again and again on the audio system. Greatest entrance ever on the pageant? We predict so. The singer was rightfully all smiles as she began the present with “With out You.”

The singer, identified for her dreamy, sultry and melancholic songs, is nearly synonymous with the well-known pageant — she even has a music known as “Coachella – Woodstock in My Thoughts.” Nevertheless, this marks her first 12 months headlining, precisely a decade since her final Coachella look in 2014 on the Out of doors Theatre stage.

Together with her hair flowing within the wind all night time lengthy, the singer seemed radiant on stage in a shiny blue gown. Visuals on display alternated between black and white and shade and confirmed views of palm timber, waves crashing and movies from her profession.

Although not featured that a lot on display for these standing within the again, her stage featured three tall white columns, winding staircases on the facet and two balconies from which she serenaded the viewers.

It’s laborious to maintain monitor of what number of hits Del Rey has in her discography, which spans 9 albums. Her set was a reminder of all of them — stacked with “Summertime Disappointment,” “Cherry,” “Fairly When You Cry” and “Born to Die.” They’re not the same old hard-hitting, bass heavy, flashy songs that almost all Coachella units characteristic, however die-hard followers and informal listeners have been nonetheless swaying all through the night time.

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The longer the singer performed, the extra assured she seemed on stage. She would typically restrict how a lot she would sing (opting to succeed in the microphone out for sure verses to permit the viewers’s voices to take over), which was disappointing given how nice she sounded. Regardless of that, she gave her followers the dreamy vocals they needed. Her voice on “Journey,” particularly, stood out, as she sustained the phrases “I simply trip” within the refrain. She even harmonized with backup singers at the beginning of “The Grants” earlier than taking on the remainder of the music.

Her backup singers, at occasions, overshadowed her, particularly on “Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd.” They earned a deserved spherical of applause from the group.

She even paid homage to a fellow Coachella artist, singing her cowl of Chic’s “Doin’ Time,” which was featured on her album “Norman F—— Rockwell!”

Del Rey’s set was stuffed with particular friends. She first welcomed Jon Batiste on stage to play their collaboration “Sweet Necklace.” She sang seated on high of his piano earlier than she began spinning on a pole, which made the group go wild. Later, Del Rey let Batiste take management of the music, they usually began advert libbing lyrics.

“Typically you want any individual else’s spirit to maneuver with you, and that’s at all times going to be Jon Batiste,” the headliner exclaimed.

Her subsequent particular visitor wanted no introduction: 2022 Coachella headliner Billie Eilish joined the stage to sing her hit “Ocean Eyes” with Del Rey. They continued with a duet of “Video Video games,” the right music to match their heavenly vocals.

Although they do not have a music collectively, Eilish has been a giant fan of Del Rey’s for years. In an Interview journal interview from 2023, Eilish shared that Rey was her lock display on the primary cellphone she ever obtained and that she sang the headliner’s songs throughout a expertise present.

“That is the voice of our era,” Del Rey mentioned of the two-time Oscar winner.

It was Eilish’s third 12 months in a row acting at Coachella — she headlined the pageant in 2022 and joined Labrinth on stage as a particular visitor throughout his 2023 set.

Producer and songwriting pal Jack Antonoff additionally joined the stage for “Hope is a Harmful Factor for a Lady like Me to Have.”

She closed out her set along with her hit music “Younger and Lovely” from the movie “The Nice Gatsby,” together with an thrilling firework show.

Del Rey is having an thrilling 2024. Other than headlining Coachella each weekends, she will likely be releasing “Lasso,” her tenth studio album, in September.