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Vogue Singapore
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
All the destination music festivals to travel to in 2025
Getty Last weekend, the party reigned in the desert with Coachella capping off its annual turn in California—following two successful weekends. Gagachella brought the house down, Green Day displayed its eternal prowess and Charli XCX reminded us of how good of a brat summer we had, featuring A-list collaborators Billie Eilish, Lorde and Troye Sivan. Meanwhile, much of the other fanfare fell on K-pop soloists like Jennie and Lisa of Blackpink, who basked in the glory of their individual discographies. All in all, the epic set also drew a famous crowd—as with previous years—with plenty of celebrity sightings in the vein of Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rosé and Justin and Hailey Bieber. It's safe to say a flame has been well ignited for destination music festivals—which are often a treat especially if you have a homeground advantage. Even if that isn't the case, a stellar lineup could easily justify a trip out as part of a vacation. First off, the veritable Lollapalooza that has had a strong start to the year in locations like Chile, Brazil and Argentina. Its next show is expected in Chicago, with Tyler the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter as headliners. Closer to home in Asia, one can always count on summer blowouts like Fuji Rock and Summer Sonic to deliver a good time. An emerging contender in the mix? Seoul Jazz, which will welcome Grammy-nominated artist Raye, Thundercats, Jacob Collier and Damiano David. Of course being in South Korea, the starry lineup also includes local heavyweights Jannabi, Epik High, Lee Youngji and CNBlue. Below, see Vogue Singapore's top picks of destination music festivals in 2025. 1 / 8 Primavera 2025 Barcelona: June 4 to June 8 One of Europe's biggest blowouts, Primavera returns with a slew of heavy-hitters—in none other than Barcelona, Spain. Charli XCX and Troye Sivan will once again team up to make the crowd sweat alongside other favourites like Chappell Roan, Haim, FKA Twigs and Clairo. @aterrormusical 2 / 8 Fuji Rock 2025: July 25 to July 27 Just 90 minutes from Tokyo, Naeba Ski Resort will host the longstanding Fuji Rock 2025, as bright-eyed festival goers brace the annual heat to see their favourite acts. This year's iteration will bring local legend Tatsuro Yamashita up to the stage for his first Fuji Rock appearance, and will welcome back familiar names like Vampire Weekend, Vulfpeck, James Blake and Ok Go. Getty 3 / 8 Seoul Jazz: May 31 to June 1 Seoul Jazz has come a long way since its debut in 2006. Now, the lineup has expanded to incorporate acts that go beyond the traditional jazz genre; this year, Olympic Park will play host to performances by Grammy nominee Raye, Thundercats and Kings of Convenience. Getty 4 / 8 Lollapalooza Chicago: July 31 to August 3 The hour is nigh in Chicago. Following the success of its festivals in Berlin and Chile, Lollapalooza Chicago will draw in its own fleet of fans—namely of Tyler the Creator, pop-rock songstress Olivia Rodrigo and K-pop girl group Twice. @fanplus1dotcom 5 / 8 Heads in the Clouds: May 31 to June 1 In case you didn't get the memo, 2025 is the year of G-Dragon. Fans of the K-pop supernova can not only look forward to a world tour but also a headliner act at Heads in the Clouds in Los Angeles. Brought to us by the folks of 88 Rising, expect other artists in their repertoire like Jackson Wang, Rich Brian, Milli and other Asian artists to take over the stage. Getty 6 / 8 Summer Sonic Tokyo and Osaka: August 16 to August 17 The Summer Sonic festivals at both Tokyo and Osaka are stacked to say the least—with vocal powerhouse Alicia Keys and punk rock band Fall Out Boy emerging to perform their most loved hits. Whilst both lineups mostly mirror one another, fans of South Korean quartet Aespa might want to choose Tokyo's fest and BabyMonster's fandom might take to Osaka on the other hand. Getty 7 / 8 Leeds 2025: August 21 to August 25 If you find yourself in England for some summer fun, travel up north for Leeds where you can catch a diverse set of artists at Bramham Park. From Chappell Roan to the metal boys of Limp Bizkit, a fresh shuffle of today and yesteryear's artists are scheduled for this annual blowout. @thekillers 8 / 8 2025 Soundside Festival: September 27 to September 28 For those of us residing in Asia, Soundside Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut would naturally veer a little off course. But having said that, it's not often you see The Killers, Weezer, Hozier and Vampire Weekend gathering for one sensational weekend. Expect the romantic notion of nostalgia to overflow, as other acts like Djo and Japanese Breakfast work their respective charms.
Daily Mail
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Lady Gaga fans gush over singer's heartwarming gesture with die-hard fan at Coachella
Lady Gaga fans have gushed over the singer's heartwarming interaction with a die-hard fan at Coachella - after recognizing him from social media. In a now-viral TikTok, content creator Guy, who posts under @notguyatencio, is seen snapping a selfie alongside the famous popstar after gaining a huge following documenting his journey to see her play at the famous music festival - with the popstar herself even chiming in with fashion advice. Guy, who is a longtime Gaga fan, bought a ticket to the second weekend of the festival after seeing Lady Gaga's impressive concert over the first weekend. In the clip, Guy is standing against the barricade after Lady Gaga's set when she talks past and drops her hat. After picking it up and turning around, she notices Guy in the crowd, walking over to him and placing the hat on his head before snapping a selfie. The moment was especially sweet, as he had been documenting his journey on making his outfits for the show - with Lady Gaga herself offering some fashion advice and reposting clips. Guy explained he was making a red-rib cage-inspired top to wear during her set, sharing his vision and how he planned on creating it with his followers. 'I bought a Coachella ticket last night because I saw Lady Gaga on my TV killing it and I need to see that in person,' he declared, before revealing the creation he was planning on making for the show. 'I'm documenting the process of how I'm making my Gagachella outfit,' he continued, explaining he was going to cover the red-ribcage in crystals and then pair it with white pants. However, what the avid fan didn't expect was Lady Gaga herself to comment on his video, writing 'see you there,' along with a black heart and smiling emoji with heart eyes. In another video, when Guy was sharing his ideas on how to secure the corset-style top - debating between chains or ribbons - Lady Gaga chimed in to share her thoughts. 'No it's cool,' she wrote in response to Guy's video asking whether it's good enough to wear when watching his favorite singer. 'You could use red ribbons,' she added. 'Or bra straps would be functional.' Thrilled, Guy decided on ribbon and was ecstatic with the results. 'Gaga, I took your advice and used ribbon and went ahead and crystalized it so it flows better,' he explained, stepping back and showing off his full look to the camera. His hard work clearly paid off, with Lady Gaga recognizing him and stopping to take a photo after getting off stage. The popstar herself even chimed in with advice for Guy's Coachella outfit 'I just want to thank everyone on TikTok who helped manifest that into existence,' he said emotionally in a video shared after the show. 'You guys helped me achieve just a huge dream,' he gushed. 'I can't believe this is real.' Dozens of other social media users then flooded to the comments to heap praise on the singer. The Bad Romance star, 39, performed at both weekends of the Coachella Music festival, held in Indio, California. It's the second time the pop star had headlined the annual music event, with her first being in 2017, but with some concert-goers declaring her act was filled with 'satanic rituals.' The set, which was split into four acts and described as an 'opera house in the desert' by the singer, saw Gaga launch into songs including Abracadabra and Judas. Amid the stunning visuals, striking sets, numerous costume changes, it left fans all saying the same thing - that it was 'the best Coachella performance of all time.'
Express Tribune
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Lady Gaga laughs off mic fail at Coachella 2025 with comeback: ‘At least you know I sing live'
Lady Gaga handled a brief microphone malfunction during her second Coachella 2025 performance with professionalism and poise. The issue occurred during her second song, 'Abracadabra,' when her head mic began cutting out early in the set. lady gaga managed to switch from head mic to hand mic and back to head mic in literal MINUTES without interrupting her performance after some technical difficulties. WHAT A LEGEND. WHAT A PRO. #Gagachella — pop culture gal (@allurequinn) April 19, 2025 She quickly switched to a handheld mic, seamlessly continuing her choreography with a cane in one hand. Within minutes, she was equipped with a new, functioning head mic and performed the remainder of her set without further issues. the way lady gaga handled her microphone malfunctioning was truly professional… what a legend 😭 — Gaga Crave 🌷 (@AMENARTPOP) April 19, 2025 Later in the show, while seated at the piano, Gaga addressed the crowd and acknowledged the hiccup. 'I'm sorry my mic was broken for a second… at least you know I sing live. I'm giving you my best tonight,' she said, drawing applause from the audience. The performance, part of her 'Mayhem' showcase, was co-directed with choreographer Parris Goebel and remained largely consistent with her weekend one set. Gaga is scheduled to take 'Mayhem' on tour starting in July, with stops planned across North America, Europe, the U.K., Mexico, Brazil, and Singapore. In a review of her weekend one performance, Variety's Chris Willman praised Gaga's commitment to live vocals, noting that her unfiltered moments — including audible breathing and vocal nuance — stood out in a festival filled with pre-recorded sets. Despite the early hiccup, Gaga's flawless recovery and emphasis on authenticity reinforced her status as a powerhouse live performer — both at Coachella and beyond.
Buzz Feed
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Lady Gaga's Mind-Blowing Coachella Performance Has The Internet Collectively Agreeing That No Other Headliner Will Ever Top This, And My Paws Have Never Been Higher
This past weekend, Lady Gaga brought Mayhem to the desert by headlining night one of Coachella 2025. And after an incredible almost-two-hour gothic-inspired production, the reviews are in: considered her toll to the angels, PAID!!! This year's Gagachella wasn't the first, although it sure felt like it. YOU SEE, she already headlined the festival back in 2017 (she was only the second woman to do so, after Björk headlined in 2002). But Gaga only had two weeks to plan for her first Coachella, after Beyoncé backed out after her pregnancy announcement. While Gaga always puts on a good show, 2017 was never the Coachella of her dreams. "I have been wanting to go back and to do it right, and I am," she said on Instagram a few months ago. AND THAT SHE DID! Creative directed in part with legendary choreographer Parris Goebel, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Lady Gaga's nearly two hour production in the desert was nothing short of her magnum opus. Like come on, how Gaga was her GIANT DRESS FOR THE OPENING NUMBER??? AND THE OPERA HOUSE SET???? I watched live at 2 a.m. EST, and from the second the show started, my ass AND paws were up. 'We are monsters – and monsters never die,' Lady Gaga said during her performance of "Bad Romance" in the show's finale. As a long-time Little Monster, that to me was the thesis of the entire performance. Never afraid to reference (or not reference), the concert was an homage to therefore an homage to the community of fans who have been there since "Just Dance". After all, Mother and her monsters go paw in paw. But who am I besides one Little Monster in a sea of many??? Here's what everyone had to say about what's being considered Coachella's wildest headlining show EVER:
The Guardian
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Lady Gaga at Coachella review – a thrilling all-timer of a performance
In 2017, Lady Gaga took on an unenviable task: filling in for Beyoncé, who dropped out of a Coachella headliner slot due to pregnancy. Gaga's replacement performance, in her country-tinged Joanne era – as usual, she was years ahead of the pop curve – more than sufficed; perhaps only Beyoncé can hold a candle to her in terms of true-blue live performance ability, and she delivered the set of a consummate entertainer and generational talent. But Gaga felt that she had unfinished business. 'I've had a vision I've never been able to fully realize at Coachella for reasons beyond our control,' she wrote in an Instagram post announcing her return to the desert for another headliner slot this spring. 'I have been wanting to go back and do it right, and I am.' Did she ever. Gaga, more than any other contemporary pop star, has approached pop as transmogrification, live performance like a hunter – the piercing gaze, transparent hunger and annihilating focus of an apex predator. And with Gagachella, as her fans have already termed a thesis statement of a set, she goes in for the kill. You knew from the minute she appeared in full deranged queen regalia, the head of a multi-story hoop skirt that opened to reveal a birdcage prison of backup dancers, that the vision was nigh. The nearly two-hour performance, covering 22 songs from her dance pop catalogue, joins Beyoncé's postponed Homecoming in the pantheon of seminal Coachella headliner sets – a fully realized vision of a pop master, a testament to years of hard-earned experience at the highest level, and a banger dance party with production and delivery in a league above her peers. At 38, Gaga reigns as a monarch in pop music, a fact she wielded to stupefying effect on Friday evening to a crowd that extended far beyond any eye could see. 'Welcome to my house,' she intoned before opener Bloody Mary – understatement of the month, as her house was the sprawling skeleton of a neoclassical opera house, her domain an arresting realm of elaborate make-believe. For the purpose of Mayhem, the new album which returns to her original principles of pounding volume, dirty synths, high theatrics and irresistible hooks, Gaga conjures an entire fantasy of witches and queens, a typically twisted, self-referential fairytale of literal dark and light told in five acts. Gagachella was notably not a full career retrospective – no tracks from Artpop, Joanne or Chromatica, with just A Star Is Born's Shallow as the lone representative of Gaga's decade-long pivot away from gritty, sticky music that makes you want to move. And yet it still felt comprehensive, all-encompassing, by seamlessly braiding her foundational texts – The Fame, Born This Way – with her latest one. Mayhem is easily Gaga's best album since Artpop, both a return to form and a hard-won study of warring personas contained in one self, pop music with sharp teeth and beastly desire. Ever the visionary and literalist, she renders her internal strife as a court battle between a domineering queen in black and a innocent in white, with full wig changes from black bob to blond ringlets necessitating long, pulsating transitions that lavished attention on her army of backup dancers and, frankly, metal instrumentalists. Gagachella, too, marks a return to form – from the outset of her career, Gaga has treated pop music as possession, her spasmodic dance style like an exorcism, more refreshingly loose and instinctual than her peers. The Mother Monster's visions – a chess battle to the death (Poker Face), rage at fame sung to a skeleton (Perfect Celebrity), new Gaga strangled by 2009 VMAs Gaga in a zombie-filled grave (Disease, the concert high point that left me agape) – possessed Coachella with an unstoppable need to dance, primal screams of the gagged. Gaga's voice, honed with time, was more dextrous and luminous than ever, and though she didn't miss a note, the performance was as much a feat of acting as singing – Gaga the possessed, the haughty, the hunted, the strangled, the Oscar nominee. Her performances often have the feeling of life-or-death stakes; even a track as sinuously groovy as Killah gets the embodiment of a demonic fever, accompanied by French producer Gesaffelstein entombed in black, the oil-slicked phantom of Gaga's twisted opera. But in the spirit of duality, she also broke character just enough – to salute her fans, her fiance, her spiritual belief of interconnectedness. 'The truth is we're all one. It's all just one big fucking thing,' she said before the triumphant victory lap of Born This Way. 'I love you so much.' The mayhem carried through a transcendent finale of Bad Romance staged, naturally, as a Frankenstein-esque revivification with plague masks, Gaga's face at the conclusion shifting between performance snarl and personal joy. With both, she led not one but two extended curtain calls with the full cast and crew – unusual for a music festival, but fitting for an all-timer night of pop theater in the desert.
