“Sadly for me, that is very cool”

After the billboard promoting her Coachella 2025 efficiency was vandalised, Clairo has responded, saying the graffiti was “very cool”.

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Forward of Coachella’s first weekend kicking off, billboards selling the artists enjoying on the competition started to pop up alongside the freeway from Los Angeles to Indio, as is custom.

On Friday (April 11), activist artwork collective Indecline posted a photograph of a billboard that they'd revised in a single day. Promoting a Saturday set from Clairo on the Out of doors Theatre, initially, it learn: “I bought charmed at Coachella,” a reference to the ‘Juna‘ singer’s final album, ‘Appeal‘.

Final night time, Indecline swapped “charmed” for “fucked” on the billboard, with a subsequent Instagram caption seemingly denouncing the consumerism related to the competition, studying: “Late Stage Capitalism headlining the Important Stage of America.”

Clairo has since responded, first commenting: “Sadly for me, that is very cool. Lol” beneath the put up, and later sharing the images to X/Twitter, the place she joked: “In the event you’re fortunate.”

In the event you’re fortunate pic.twitter.com/bERE5orVf8

— claire cottrill (@clairo) April 11, 2025

Elsewhere, digital duo Snow Strippers additionally had their billboard vandalised to learn the phrase “GRIM” in large letters, with Stereogum reporting that it was later coated with a brand new paintings selling the artists.

Again in 2022, Norwegian DJ Matoma purchased numerous billboards on the highway into Coachella to boost consciousness and funds for the Ukraine aid effort. Put up in collaboration with the Music Saves UA charity, they learn: “DROP BEATS NOT BOMBS” and featured the blue and yellow of the Ukraine flag.

As for this yr’s version of the Californian competition, issues are effectively underway, with Friday’s headliner Girl Gaga wrapping up her headline set within the early hours this morning (April 12).

Regardless of being hailed by followers because the “greatest Coachella present of all time”, many had been beset by journey points earlier than getting by means of the gates, with some reporting “horrendous” 12-hour waits in a site visitors jam.

The first wave of artists confirmed for this yr’s version was shared again in November, when it was revealed that Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Publish Malone and Travis Scott could be headlining. Different artists on the invoice embody Missy Elliott, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion, solo performances from BLACKPINK‘s Lisa and Jennie, Benson Boone, the unique Misfits, Zedd, The Prodigy, Beabadoobee, Clairo, Enhypen and extra.

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