– flower crown, heart-shaped sunglasses, Lolita pout – matches the cliche of a Coachella girl. Both Del Rey and the festival saw a peak in the mid-2010s, during the early years of influencer culture excess. So it makes sense that Coachella’s golden girl would headline … even though, in 2024, Del Rey doing so feels about a decade too late.exactly 10 years to the day before Friday’s opening night performance, as she proudly told the crowd.
Ongoing mic problems plagued her set the whole way through, causing awkward stops, starts and moments where she just motioned for the singing crowd to pick up the slack for her., sometimes dubbed the worst in the show’s history. Back then, critics tore her vacant, yet somehow also trying-too-hard, turn to shreds. Del Rey has redeemed herself in the years since via some very good music, and enough time has passed that she can joke about the fiasco.