And, sure, this was hardly the Super Bowl halftime veteran’s first experience before a live audience numbering in the tens of thousands. But the performance did mark Lady Gaga’s debut at America’s highest-profile music festival, held every spring for nearly two decades on the sprawling grounds of the Empire Polo Club in Indio. It also opened a new chapter for Coachella, which has long hesitated to book a current pop superstar for its gigantic main stage. As a result, perhaps organizers felt they needed an especially splashy name to meet the demands of those dimensions. Elsewhere, she took advantage of Coachella’s attention-getting platform by playing a new single, “The Cure,” for the first time in public.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 17, 2017 01:29 UTC