Fresh from
her Super Bowl LI performance, Lady Gaga has confirmed she will step in for
Beyoncé at Coachella after she announced she would not be able to headline the festival due to
pregnancy.
Billboard reported that organisers
were finalising plans last night and a few hours later Gaga tweeted an updated
line-up poster, alongside the caption: “Let’s party in the desert!”
Coachella did
pretty well to find such a high-profile stand-in at such short notice (in mega
festival terms - it takes place in April) and Gaga is a fitting replacement,
the pair having collaborated several times, most memorably on the tracks ‘Telephone’
and (my personal jam) ‘Videophone’.
Let's party in the desert! 🌴✌️🎤 pic.twitter.com/2SYOv7TscF— xoxo, Joanne (@ladygaga) March 1, 2017
Beyoncé, who is pregnant with twins, hoped to play Coachella
but was advised not to by doctor’s; she could have been in her third trimester
during the set.
The slot adds to a busy summer for Gaga, who, off the back
of the Super Bowl half-time show, will soon embark on a Joanne world tour.
She will be the first woman to headline Coachella since
Björk in 2007 and is joined on the line-up by Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Bon
Iver, Future, Lorde and more.
The festival takes place in Indio, California on two
consecutive weekends: 14-16 and 21-23 April.
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