Words: Issy Aldridge
We watched the performances, obsessed over Shania and Lizzo, and even dropped a horrendous amount of money on ASOS to secure sequin outfits for Love On Tour, but did your tweets make the cut?
Taking to the Californian desert for the first time in his career, Harry Styles offered two spectacular sets for the world’s most Instagrammable festival, Coachella. Watching from screens around the world – because after purchasing Love On Tour tickets, who has the money for Coachella too? – your reactions made us howl at TFGL HQ. Whether it be over that ICONIC collab on weekend one, or the bedazzled ‘HS’ pants on weekend two, we’re here to round up two weekends of incredible music from the desert.
“my daughter is perfectly fine”
— elodie ♡’s chrissy🧣6 DAYS BEFORE ASHE 🏠 (@swtcreature28) April 16, 2022
your daughter is awake at 3 am watching harry styles at coachella on youtube crying because he has a new song called boyfriends
None of us were quite ready for new music yet. With May 20th etched into our brains as we eagerly await the release of Harry’s House, the performance of Boyfriends sent everyone into a frenzy. Going through a breakup never felt so empowering, cheers Harry!
And with all the leaked music we’ve had bounding around Twitter this week, the performance of Late Night Talking had people shook on Weekend One.
Stan Twitter really had people in heavy anticipation for Harry’s House, with this tweet featuring Sex Education’s Eric really summing up the mood.
Can May 20th just hurry up, please? We need to add Late Night Talking to my playlists ASAP.
Late Night Talking !!!! #Coachella #Harrychella pic.twitter.com/Z4FT7D0Gtk
— Jess (@goldentalk_) April 16, 2022
still not over harry and shania twain performing man i feel like a woman together it was so good pic.twitter.com/ijY2ziVoR2
— jojo (@goIdnangeI) April 17, 2022
For those of us raised in the late nineties and early noughties, Weekend One shook us to our core. The introduction to Man, I Feel Like A Woman! alights something in us at the best of times, let alone when it’s blasted in the midst of a headline Coachella set. It’s safe to say that fans were pretty pleased with the emergence of Shania Twain mid-way through the set.
Serotonin? Through the roof after this performance.
And yes, we have raided the internet for a Shania-inspired sequin dress following this moment. Love On Tour is going to be a blinder with the sun beating down on a sea of sequins come June time. No, we won’t apologise for that.
As if Shania wasn’t enough, weekend two brought even more theories out of the woodwork. Would Harry and the 1D boys reunite? Could it be Stevie Nicks? You Are Home posted a door that appeared to show the pattern on one of Niall’s Shirts – maybe it would be him?
But as Lizzo shared to Instagram Stories her heading out to the desert, fans had an inkling that perhaps it could be her.
april is a total chaos from day ONE. AIW release, then coachella night 1, harry performing 2 new songs, you're still the one and man I feel like a woman with shania, demo leaks from 1D and hs1, medicine, anna, studio versions, now coachella night 2 and H performing I will survive
— ash is home || L❥VE (@sunfflouwerry) April 23, 2022
lizzo and Harry styles singing i will survive ?????? GOD I AM NOT YOUR STRONGEST SOLDIER
— stuti | track 7 on Harry's house (@lwtszm) April 23, 2022
Some handled the news better than others. Performing the iconic disco track I Will Survive, fans lost their minds at the somewhat chaotic collab. Karaoke night at Harry’s House anyone?
Ever since the Grammy’s performance last year, we’ve seen another evolution in Harry’s wardrobe. Now, entering an almost glam rock/western era, fans are obsessing over every fashion move he makes. And some of the tweets – well, they speak for themselves.
Catch every girl at HSLOT wearing a pair of rhinestoned cowboy boots. And the cowboy hats? Here to stay! Who needs London Fashion Week when you can attent Harry Styles: Love On Tour anyway.
Harry was definitely serving Strawberry Shortcake vibes on weekend two (if you know, you know)
harry styles at coachella pic.twitter.com/vm98DdDPIu
— pa。 (@hstylbby) April 23, 2022
harry’s outfits for coachella last night pic.twitter.com/eZfBrqXpMX
— Iuna 🪴 (@sugarpIumlwt) April 16, 2022
Hannah Montana is absolutely QUAKING.
You best believe our Google search history over the last week or so has consisted largely of searches for sequin jumpsuits like Harry’s. If we can’t get one of those, catch us jazzing up anything we can get our hands on with a tube of Uhu Glue and cheap, Ebay rhinestones.
But if all else fails, I guess we could turn up looking something like Jon Snow…
Screaming, crying, and violently shaking.
Medicine occasionally makes an appearance at Harry’s own headline shows but at one of music’s most coveted festivals? Surely not.
How wrong were we? The unreleased track had fans in shock across both weekends, and Harry well and truly Punk’d us all. The snake knew exactly what this would do to us and the internet was in absolute chaos.
From the thumb licks to the lyrics – which we now can fully agree on, right?- Medicine had fans turning feral in the desert itself and on sofas around the round.
And amongst all the leaks, if you really want to hear the studio recording of Medicine, you now can. But if Harry ever fancied officially releasing the track, we could totally get behind that. *hint hint harry*
We’re ready.
us: there’s no way he’s singing medicine
— rachel🦋 (@canyonmoonblu) April 23, 2022
harry: pic.twitter.com/AH21vyrSeQ
So same time next year Harry? We just need a little time to recover from those two stunning performances.
Thank you, fellow fangirl!
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