L: Damon Albarn performs with Billie Eilish (seen on screen behind him); D: Shania Twain and Harry Styles Photo: Kevin Mazur (Getty Images)
This year’s Coachella lineup seemed very “how are you fellow kids” with two out of three headliners born after the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind. But at least the youngsters used their time on stage to invite older icons to perform with them.
On the first night of Coachella, Harry Styles invited Shania Twain — while wearing matching glittery outfits — to join him onstage to perform two of her biggest hits: “Man! I feel like a woman!” and “You’re still the one.”
After the performance, Twain tweeted, “music icon. Fashion icon. And true friend ❤️ I’m honored and thrilled to have taken the stage with @Harry_Styles in his @coachella debut. What a magical moment!! And I mean come on… WHAT A SHOW 🔥 I’m a big fan! Thankful we got to create this memory together – thank you Harry.”
Continuing the trend of current younger stars bringing the artists they grew up with on stage, Billie Eilish brought Damon Albarn on stage to sing one of his songs. No, they didn’t go with the predictable crowd pleaser “Song 2”. Instead, Eilish opted for one of Albarn’s more recent hits: Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” Albarn also sang Eilish’s “Getting Older” from the singer’s recent album Happier Than Ever during the set.
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Albarn had praised Eilish in the same infamous January interview with the LA Times, in which he claimed that Taylor Swift doesn’t write her own songs. At the time, he had said that as a writing duo with her brother Finneas, Eilish was “a really interesting songwriter” and that he was “more drawn to it than Taylor Swift” because Eilish’s music was “darker — less endlessly upbeat.” Much smaller and weirder.” He also referred to them as “extraordinary.”
Styles and Eilish will face Coachella again on April 23 and 24, respectively, so they might bring out more surprise guests the second time around.