Grimes faced some major technical issues during her set on the first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival.
Things appeared to get off to a great and dramatic start when she made her grand entrance to the Sahara Stage on a futuristic walking vehicle that crawled like a spider as she sat in the backseat, according to Variety.
Despite a warning ahead of her show with a few posts on X (formerly Twitter) that she expected some problems, her 50 minute set got off to a great start.
But about halfway into the show the electronic singer-songwriter, 36, was forced to restart Music 4 Machines a number of times, which she blamed on the song being played at double the tempo that was intended.
‘This is insane. All my tracks are double the tempo,’ she revealed, while letting out a few frustrated shrieks. ‘This is a difficult thing to explain but we’re having a major technical error. Don’t judge me for being bad at calculating things.’
Grimes, 36, faced some ‘major technical issues’ during her set on the Sahara stage at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on Saturday (pictured)
Throughout the onstage fiasco, Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher) tried to explain the issues to the audience and try to solve the math in real time and remember the tempo of each song.
She was unable to rework them in the moment, which derailed her plans.
Eventually, she decided to move on and play several unreleased songs, some of which were only just recorded in the past few days.
She paused between each track, letting out a few frustrated screams, stating that it wasn’t ‘actually my fault’ that the set was falling apart, as per TMZ.
‘I’m trying to think. I’m not good enough at math for this s**t,” she said.
In the end, she decided to go into her 2012 song Genesis, but ultimately the set was cut short and she left the stage at around the 50 minute mark.
Grimes took to X (formerly Twitter) a few hours before hitting the stage to let fans know that she was not expecting a perfect performance, which turned out to be correct.
‘Ok I’m playing a lot of new stuff tonight and we are literally still fixing vocal mixes and stuff – a lot of this isn’t finished,’ she explained at around 3 p.m. Saturday. ‘So if there’s weird moments or bad vocals this is why!’
Things appeared to get off to a great and dramatic start when she made her grand entrance to the Sahara Stage on a futuristic walking vehicle that crawled like a spider as she sat in the backseat, according to Variety
The electronic singer-songwriter was forced to restart Music 4 Machines a number of times, which she blamed on the song being played at double the tempo that was intended
She paused between each track, letting out a few frustrated screams, stating that it wasn’t ‘actually my fault’ that the set was falling apart
‘I will do more work between coachellas so next week will prob be even better,’ she promised.’
A few minutes later she took back to the social media platform to elaborate more on why she felt there would be technical problems.
‘The first half of the set is more mixes I made, then the end is all new things / nothing is mastered yet if there’s volume dips and whatnot – Imo the songs you will prob enjoy the most r Fantasia (tears r data) and synchronize, but my self indulgent favourite is liberté,’ she explained.
‘I still need to still do vocal stacks on the chorus but my tour manager has banned me from making more edits,’ she wrote.
‘I did not have time to finish the requested cyber twee since that type of music doesn’t go off live very well but it’s coming too.’
Moments later she shared another disclaimer.
Grimes took to X (formerly Twitter) a few hours before hitting the stage to let fans know that she was not expecting a perfect performance, which turned out to be correct
The Canadian singer-songwriter explained how the second half of her set was new songs that weren’t properly finished and mastered
Grimes even shared a disclaimer about her intro entrance but that turned out to go off fine
Grimes will get the opportunity to redeem herself, fix the technical issues, and deliver a more cohesive performance at 2024 Coachella next Saturday, April 20
‘I was not able to rehearse tiding on top of the mechanical spider for safety reasons so if I am unable to gracefully get off the spider plz forgive me.’
Grimes will get the opportunity to redeem herself, fix the technical issues, and deliver a more cohesive performance at 2024 Coachella next Saturday, April 20.
The artist began her career in music after moving to Montreal in 2006, which subsequently led to her first two studio albums in 2010.
She has since dropped three more albums throughout the years leading up to 2020 when she released her most recent Miss Anthropocene, only a few weeks before COVID-19 was deemed a pandemic.
