Taylor Swift’s title isn’t on the lineup poster of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition, however that doesn’t imply pop’s greatest celebrity gained’t make an look in Indio this month.
To not go all Taylor Swift conspiracy theorist on you, however there are some indicators — and celeb gossip reviews — that time to Swift spending a while within the desert.
First, she’s on a break from her Eras tour, which lately wrapped its run in Asia and Australia. There’s no purpose to determine if she may be there in time, like individuals did when Swift flew from Japan to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play within the Tremendous Bowl — her complete month is free earlier than she heads to Europe in Could.
Second, her new album, “The Tortured Poets Division,” drops on April 19, which is the primary day of Coachella’s second weekend. It’s not unprecedented to see an artist roll as much as the fest with brand-new materials. Kendrick Lamar dropped “Rattling.” two days earlier than his first Coachella headlining stint in 2017.
Now, she might simply be taking the month of April off to do promotion for the brand new album, however probably the most compelling purpose of all that we would see Swift in Indio? Her mates are going to be there.
Our workforce of Coachella specialists has compiled some seemingly spots for a Swift shock on the pageant.
Lana Del Rey performs in the course of the 2016 Outdoors Lands Music And Arts Competition
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Lana Del Rey
True energy is having a fanbase that may persuade Taylor Swift to take a backseat on her personal track. “Snow on the Seaside” was a dreamy spotlight of Swift’s “Midnights,” which featured her pal Lana del Rey’s spare however velvety harmonies. But Lana’s followers wouldn’t settle for such a slight function for her, and efficiently petitioned for a brand new edit the place Del Rey will get a way more substantial function — and so they had been proper, it’s the superior model. Lana’s set will probably be a pinnacle of a profession steeped in L.A. mythology, so can Del Rey persuade Swift, probably the most well-known artist on the planet, to drop by for transient concord cameo on the Coachella important stage? Bizarre, however f— stunning. — AB
Musician and music producer Jack Antonoff is photographed in his Hollywood studio on February 1, 2024.
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Bleachers
Jack Antonoff’s rock band Bleachers performs the Mojave Tent on Saturday night, however because the producer to the celebs, together with Swift and Del Rey, there’s potential for a Swift sighting, if not a visitor spot. Antonoff has labored on a string of Swift’s albums and he’s the producer of the forthcoming “The Tortured Poets Division.” And after Swift’s “Midnights” dropped, the hit “Anti-Hero” acquired a Bleachers remix, which, if re-created, would make for a reasonably epic Coachella second. — VF
Sabrina Carpenter arrives on the MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 12, 2023, in Newark, N.J.
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Sabrina Carpenter
Carpenter toiled for years within the Disney-pop salt mines earlier than breaking out in 2022 with the comparatively frisky “Emails I Can’t Ship.” That album’s greatest observe, “Nonsense,” went viral on TikTok because of Carpenter’s onstage behavior of adjusting the lyrics of the track’s outro to go well with no matter metropolis she’s in: “Outdated individuals assume I’m Hannah Montana / He’s so huge I want an additional hand-a / Make some noise for candy residence Alabama,” she sang, pricelessly, at that state’s Hangout Fest final 12 months. The singer saved at it as one in all Swift’s opening acts on the Eras tour, and simply final month she joined a fellow Eras alum, Norway’s Woman in Crimson, for a bumptious duet with the very Taylor-rific title of “You Want Me Now?” Maybe Swift will reward Carpenter’s loyalty with a shock Coachella cameo. — MW
