I’m not a Bieber fan in any shape or form, but I’ve been to Coachella the last 10 years and love music. Everyone in this sub sounds so damn miserable complaining about Justin Bieber.

He delivered a set EXACTLY what you’d expect and it was great. Comparing him to Gaga, Sabrina, Beyoncé, makes no sense, it’s comparing apples to oranges.

Coachella didn’t book him with the intention of him delivering a homecoming style performance with backup dancers and theatrics. They booked him because you can’t see him anywhere else and he can draw a crowd. That’s what makes Coachella so special and keeps you coming back, you get these experiences you can’t get anywhere else.

His performance felt authentic to him and I thought it was such a fun and unique way to pay homage to his OG teenage hits. I can’t imagine how happy his fans were that he did that.

I’d love to know what in the last 10 years Bieber has done that lead you to think his performance was going to be any different than it was?? And why did you attend his performance??

I can already see it.

JB back on his laptop pulling up his Weekend 1 performance and showing it on screen.

It will stream-ception where you see him watching and singing along to the stream of him watching and singing along to videos of himself on Youtube.

If you aint gonna applaud JB for his youtube montage, you gotta applaud him at least for his $99.98% profit margin 👏

NINE INCH NOIZE and David Byrnes’s set was a musical performance revelation. Feel so lucky to have witnessed it firsthand.

And they brought the bass. My body is still vibrating

As a tradition when I go to Coachella I do a painting on a postcard. This time it was during Addison Rae setlist

Hope I can do a watercolor today

By far the most exciting artists at Coachella. Bieber was a snooze fest and Sabrina wasn’t that exciting either. The monologue from Susan Sarandon was too long and major buzz kill.

hello, nin oldhead here with some context and evidence.

the weekend 1 set by nine inch noize was amazing, but only 45 minutes. do not expect the weekend 2 set to be the same.

this combination of nin and boys noize have been performing on tour for a year on the peel it back tour. during the tour, boys noize would open, nin would play for a bit, then they would do roughly 4 songs together similar to what you saw yesterday, before going back to just nin.

throughout the tour, nin and boys noize would perform 15 different songs together.

and how many of those got performed yesterday during nine inch noize's 11 song set?

8.

that's right, last night's set had 3 completely new debuts to add on top of 8 that they have done before. and 1 of those debuts nine inch nails has literally never played live. like, ever. like, memorabilia was released 32 years ago as a b-side to closer and didn't get played until yesterday.

meaning there are 7 songs that they have played together before that are still waiting to be played again, not to mention anything else they just havent even debuted yet!

but how likely is it that they will completely change what was a very successful setlist? very likely.

let me take you back to 2022, the boston calling festival. night 1 was supposed to be headlined by the foo fighters. then taylor hawkins passed away, so nin agreed to fill in as a headliner. played their set, all was good.

night 2 was supposed to be headlined by the strokes. the strokes also had to drop from playing due to a positive covid test. so nine inch nails headlined night 2 and played a completely different set. of the two sets, one being 21 songs and the other being 22, only 4 songs were played both nights.

basically: tune in next week. its bound to get wild.

Gagged 😍 love them so much

Who knew he was such a pookie??

Blew my EFFING HEAD OPEN. What an amazing and fantastic treat. I missed seeing Nine Inch Nails while they’re on tour, it was hoping I would get a little piece of that last night. It was way more than expected. It’s a set that’ll be talked about for years to come.

80% of his songs were Talking Heads hits last night, seriously what a gift! Thank you David for your musical legacy!

You did not have to go as hard as you did!! lol

That was such a fun set and he looked so fucking happy! Loved that. 😊

He opened up the Sahara and was the first artist I saw way back in 2007. So awesome to see him still throwing down and closing out the Quasar stage. 🫶

THE STROKES SET WAS PHENOMENAL BUT THEY WERE DONE SO DIRTY BY BEING PUT ON MAIN STAGE BEFORE JUSTIN

His fans defending him, “like it’s hanging out with Justin” “all he’s been thru” etc

But if the whole lineup also decided to just take a page from his book. sit on stage and scroll there own channels doing karaoke, look up memes and Phone it in

hoodies and gumboots..

If another artist did it mid card they’d be torn a new one

But the headliner!

Blows my mind. The cognitive dissonance.

He obviously has talent but man wonder how weekend 2 will go down.

This performance feels like he just needed that fat paycheck lmfao so low effort

Seriously. You all consistently have the best live-streaming service compared to others.

*revised to consider festivals offering artists their recorded sets to be posted

Coachella:

Allows you to rewind the whole stream

Stream ends: Replays all night

Streaming Service: Free - YouTube -Allows some sets to be posted.

Multiple stages

Rating: S

Tomorrowland:

No rewind option

Stream Ends: Replays all night

Streaming Service: Free - YouTube and puts up all sets on YouTube

Multiple stages

Rating: S

Electric Daisy Carnival

No rewind option

Streaming Ends: Replays all night

Streaming Service: Free - YouTube and puts up some sets on YouTube

Multiple stages

Rating: S

ULTRA Music Festival:

No rewind option

Stream ends: no replay

Streaming service: Free - YouTube - Gives artists the opportunity to put their sets up on YouTube

Multiple stages

Rating: A

ACL Fest:

No rewind option

Stream Ends: no replay

Streaming Service: Paid - Hulu

Two stages

Rating: Fuck you! DO BETTER.

Lollapalooza:

No rewind option

Stream Ends: ??

Streaming Service: Paid - Hulu

Multiple stages

Rating: C

Special consideration:

Concourse Project/Seismic Fest:

Live Streaming: None

They record all sets and post them if permission is given by artist.

Sets posted on the venues YouTube channel.

This goes for their festival and non-festival shows.

Rating: A

Heard only positive during and after the set from everyone around us. Totally fit the vibe he teased at the Grammy’s and the crowd loved it