How Coachella got Lady Gaga to replace Beyoncé

[junolxf 8,654]

 

Paul Tollett calls getting Lady Gaga to replace Beyoncé at Coachella next week “almost in the miracle bucket.”

Desert Trip went on to break Coachella’s concert box office record and supplant Coachella as the number one-rated music festival in North America by the concert industry watchdog, Pollstar.

Now, Lady Gaga will fill the Saturday headline slot at Coachella, with Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar topping the opening and closing nights April 14-16 and April 21-23 at the Empire Polo Club.

Gaga's presence was necessitated by Beyoncé's announcement that her family would be growing. Times two. She posted on social media on Feb. 1 that she and her husband, rap superstar Jay-Z, were expecting twins.

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When Beyoncé withdrew, Goldenvoice announced that she would be a headliner in 2018. But they didn’t announce who would replace her.

“We didn’t feel we had to immediately,” Tollett said. “We would rather get it right than get it done quickly on that one. Tickets were sold. People knew we were going to find something.”

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Nevertheless, one of the first artists he sought to replace Beyoncé was Lady Gaga, a pop star who had never played Coachella and had hits such as “Poker Face,” “Born This Way” and “Million Reasons." Tollett said he didn’t feel a mandate to find another female artist to headline, but Lady Gaga was hot, too. She had just wowed a national audience with her Feb. 5 Super Bowl halftime show.

But Lady Gaga was committed in April.

She was following in the footsteps of Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland and Janet Gaynor to star in the fourth film version of “A Star Is Born,” opposite Bradley Cooper, who also is writing and directing the movie. So Tollett began looking elsewhere.

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“Then we heard, ‘Oh, she’s making a movie in the Coachella Valley,” Tollett recalled. “‘Oh, wow! There’s a plan to be had there. Let’s look at that schedule.’ When we heard, ‘It’s out there,’ (it was,) ‘Let’s regroup.’”

Gaga and Cooper moved some things around in their schedules. It only took a few days to sign Gaga since she wouldn't have to travel far and she knew Beyoncé couldn’t do the gig.

http://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/music/coachella/2017/04/06/how-coachella-got-lady-gaga-replace-beyonce/100045614/

[OBEY 57,109]

"How Coachella got Lady Gaga as Headliner" would be better, i'm annoyed with the "replacement" word everywhere, it makes it as if Gaga was worth less cause she's "replacing" etc

[Panchecco 17,712]

Oh ok this cleared up something for me

I was scared that the ASIB production had to quickly re-schedule their filming schedule at Coachella so that Gaga could have performed and filmed the movie while she was there, but apparently they were already planning to film in the Coachella Valley regardless

good timing Beyoncé 

[Fame IV 4,426]

1 minute ago, OBEY said:

"How Coachella got Lady Gaga as Headliner" would be better, i'm annoyed with the "replacement" word everywhere, it makes it as if Gaga was worth less cause she's "replacing" etc

exacly

[Der Meister 3,000]

Queen of killing two birds with one shot 

[holy scheisse 22,321]

Hits such as million reasons. That's right bitch lmao  

[YaaaasGaga 6,119]

Omg imagine if her schedule with filming had no flexibility whatsoever... That really would've caused the meltdown of the century (again)

 

[PanPikus 9,879]

What a coincidence

[Stef 61,645]

What surprises me is that it was that easy and fitting. She was in the area so she could fill the slot. 

Also that she actually chose to do it, usually she's all about that "I like to be dedicated to one thing at a time" mindset and therefore we'd most likely be in a damn blackout otherwise  

 

Usually when it comes to Gaga things aren't that simple.  

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

she's such a hardworking person 

1 minute ago, Stef said:

Also that she actually chose to do it, usually she's all about that "I like to be dedicated to one thing at a time" 

she usually contradicts herself, so dont take too seriously everything she says 

[junolxf 8,654]

4 minutes ago, OBEY said:

"How Coachella got Lady Gaga as Headliner" would be better, i'm annoyed with the "replacement" word everywhere, it makes it as if Gaga was worth less cause she's "replacing" etc

But she's replacing her. That doesn't mean she's worse. 

[Bambino 24,303]

So basically, if anyone, say Paulina Rubio, was doing something in the Coachella Valley, they would've contacted her to replace Beyonce? They just wanted a replacement, it seems.

[Kulture Kiari 3,433]

Omg! What a huge, lucky coincidence. I always thought that they decided to film ASIB at Coachella because Gaga was gonna sing there, but apparently, Gaga said OK to Coachella because plans for her to record there were already set! I cant believe it! Kween of predicting the future. 

[viniferrett 16,684]

1 minute ago, Bambino said:

So basically, if anyone, say Paulina Rubio, was doing something in the Coachella Valley, they would've contacted her to replace Beyonce? They just wanted a replacement, it seems.

I don't think you read that right 

[Addison Rae 16,965]

shes so hardworking  so happy shes finally doing Coachella!