Girl Gaga is the Friday headliner on the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition. She carried out on the Indio, California, competition for the primary time since her 2017 debut on the occasion, when she famously changed a then-pregnant Beyoncé as a headliner. Scroll down to take a look at footage from the efficiency, and rewind the livestream beneath to look at it in full.
Billed as “The Artwork of Private Chaos,” Gaga’s set was damaged into 4 “acts”—“Of Velvet and Vice,” “And She Fell Right into a Gothic Dream,” “The Stunning Nightmare That Is aware of Her Title,” and “To Wake Her Is To Lose Her”—plus a finale. She first appeared onstage on the high of a large, multi-story robe, singing an a cappella rendition of Born This Approach’s “Bloody Mary” earlier than launching into the Mayhem single “Abracadabra” as dancers emerged from her skirt. Gaga picked up a guitar for “Backyard of Eden,” and held a dance battle onstage to a Gesaffelstein remix of “Abracadabra” that was subsequently launched on streaming platforms.
Later within the night, Gaga introduced Gesaffelstein out to accompany her on “Killah,” then danced with a life-sized skeleton for “Zombieboy,” giving the latter its dwell debut. Your complete manufacturing featured quite a few homages to previous Gaga iconography, together with her Alexander McQueen costume from the 2009 MTV VMAs—now finished in white—and a recreation of her leg brace armor from the “Paparazzi” music video. Gaga’s setlist drew largely on her new album and her run of releases from The Fame via Born This Approach, omitting any choices from Artpop, Joanne, or Chromatica. She closed out the evening with Mayhem’s “Vanish Into You,” “Shallow” from A Star Is Born, and “Dangerous Romance.”
It has been a banner yr for Girl Gaga, who kicked off 2025 by asserting Mayhem and performing on the Grammy Awards alongside Bruno Mars. The artists additionally gained the Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency trophy that evening for his or her hit duet “Die With a Smile.”
Gaga adopted her Grammy win with a Tremendous Bowl efficiency, the place she sang her High Gun: Maverick authentic tune “Maintain My Hand” in a pre-taped phase. She additionally hosted and carried out on Saturday Night time Reside, and delighted followers with a tour announcement.
Mayhem contains Girl Gaga’s singles “Illness” and “Abracadabra,” each of which arrived with slick, fashion-forward movies.
