Coachella has announced its 2027 headliners, and the top of the bill reads like a playlist your uncle made in 2009. Tame Impala and SZA sit alongside Madonna and Diljit Dosanjh, with Dua Lipa set to become the first female British headliner in the festival’s history.
The festival’s press office called this a milestone. It is a milestone in the same way that finding a parking space at the mall on Black Friday is a milestone. Somebody had to be first, and apparently the list of British women headliners was a locked room nobody could be bothered to open.
Is this progress? Technically yes. Technically.
Madonna is playing a festival in 2027 under a headline that, if you squint, describes her 1990 Blond Ambition tour. Tame Impala has been headlining since the era of skinny jeans and Tumblr. The bill is less a lineup than a reunion nobody requested.
Nobody can blame Dua Lipa for the bill. She is simply the most current name on it, which tells you everything about the rest of it.
The announcement video, judging by its colour grading, was shot on a camera last sold in 2014.