Everyone is at Coachella, and I am not, but honestly, looking at the schedule, beside a few acts that I would have been happy to see, I am not really complaining to be home. There was a lot of anticipation all afternoon long about Daft Punk making an apparition during Phoenix set. I couldn’t care less about both of them, so I followed the hype with a certain boredom, but if Phoenix was big enough to headline the biggest music festival in the world in the first place, why would they need the support of another famous band? May be because they are not really big enough?
So I distractedly watched Phoenix’s set on the Coachella YouTube channel, and I am still not impressed, may be I don’t see it, may be something totally escapes me, but they fail to do anything to me, all their songs sound the same, the melodies are forgettable! Okay there is energy, they seem nice, not the aggressive type at all, the kind of guys that can please the whole family except me,… yes I am bored, can’t Daft Punk get on stage already so I can go to bed? By reading Twitter while watching their performance, I can tell I am in a minority, people love Phoenix! After five or six songs, I still fail to notice anything remarkable about them, I see many unknown bands in Los Angeles which have so much more personality it is just laughable.
And aren’t most of these people there because of the Daft Punk rumor? The singer just did a crowd bath, but even then the excitement from my part is at its lowest, they sound like a even more boring version of Coldplay, and I didn’t know it was possible.
Oops R Kelly just showed up, and they do together a mash up of '1901' and ‘Ignition (Remix)’ and he is stealing the show, of course! And it was so unexpected… Wait, R Kelly knows about Phoenix??? And even better, Phoenix’s fans know about R Kelly?
Big finale with big jump and long crowd surfing during a replay of the intro of their song ‘Entertainment’, okay Chris Martin would never do that, the singer took some serious risk there. Still, I think they punked everyone with that Daft Punk rumor, was it a very good marketing idea or a big let down? I still wonder why Daft Punk didn’t get on stage, everyone said they were there…. Or was it all made up? Just to give a boost to Phoenix’s popularity?
