Grimes screams on stage after having 'major technical difficulties' during chaotic set at Coachella

Release time：2024-05-07 13:35:12 Source：Stellar Stories news portal

Grimes faced some major technical issues during her set on the first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival.

Things appeared to get off to a great and dramatic start when she made her grand entrance to the Sahara Stage on a futuristic walking vehicle that crawled like a spider as she sat in the backseat, according to Variety.

Despite a warning ahead of her show with a few posts on X (formerly Twitter) that she, 36, expected some problems, her 50 minute set got off to a solid start.

But about halfway into the show the electronic singer-songwriter — who debuted a new romance in March — was forced to restart Music 4 Machines a number of times, which she blamed on the song being played at double the tempo that was intended. 

'This is insane. All my tracks are double the tempo,' she revealed, while letting out a few frustrated shrieks. 'This is a difficult thing to explain but we're having a major technical error. Don't judge me for being bad at calculating things.'

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Grimes, 36, faced some 'major technical issues' during her set on the Sahara stage at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on Saturday (pictured)

Throughout the onstage fiasco, Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher) tried to explain the issues to the audience and try to solve the math in real time and remember the tempo of each song.

She was unable to rework them in the moment, which derailed her plans. 

Eventually, she decided to move on and play several unreleased songs, some of which were only just recorded in the past few days.

She paused between each track, letting out a few frustrated screams, stating that it wasn't 'actually my fault' that the set was falling apart.

'I'm trying to think. I'm not good enough at math for this s**t,' she said. 

In the end, she decided to go into her 2012 song Genesis, but ultimately the set was cut short and she left the stage at around the 50 minute mark.

After the disastrous set she took to Twitter to apologize to fans, writing that it all happened because she 'outsourced' and let 'someone else' organize her tracks, adding that her lesson was to 'be a c**t even if ppl feel bad.' 

'I want to apologize for the technical issues with the show tonight,' she wrote. 

'I wanted to come back rly strong and usually I always handle every aspect of my show myself - to save time this was one of the first times I've outsourced essential things like rekordbox bpm's and letting someone else organize the tracks on the sd card etc.' 

She paused between each track, letting out a few frustrated screams, stating that it wasn't 'actually my fault' that the set was falling apart

The electronic singer-songwriter was forced to restart Music 4 Machines a number of times, which she blamed on the song being played at double the tempo that was intended 

'This is insane. All my tracks are double the tempo,' she revealed. 'This is a difficult thing to explain but we're having a major technical error'

After the disastrous set she took to Twitter to apologize to fans, writing that it all happened because she 'outsourced' and let 'someone else' organize her tracks, adding that her lesson was to 'be a c**t even if ppl feel bad' 

'I had a bad feeling beforehand not having run everything thru the cdjs myself and tho I flagged it I wasn't insistent. the big lesson for me was a mix of: 1 if u want it done right, do it yrself, 2 be a c**t even if ppl feel bad, 3 probably pretend it's fine and engage w the crowd rather than spend a whole show slumped over the desk trying to fix software when ur meant to be entertaining.'

'I will personally organize all the files next week. I will not let such a thing happen again.' 

'I've spent months on this show, making music and visuals, and admittedly am not in the best mood atm. But, yeh - next week will be flawless, everything will run thru my hands.'

'Some good lessons learned. Bless y'all. The cdjs were showing me bpms like 370 so I couldn't even mix manually by ear and the front monitors were off so it was literally sonic chaos on my end trying to guess how stuff was sounding for u guys.'

She wrapped up writing, 'Plz forgive me! Love, always.'

Grimes also posted on Twitter a few hours before hitting the stage to let fans know that she was not expecting a perfect performance, which turned out to be correct.

'Ok I'm playing a lot of new stuff tonight and we are literally still fixing vocal mixes and stuff – a lot of this isn’t finished,' she explained at around 3 p.m. Saturday. 'So if there's weird moments or bad vocals this is why!'

'I will do more work between coachellas so next week will prob be even better,' she promised.'

A few minutes later she took back to the social media platform to elaborate more on why she felt there would be technical problems. 

A few hours before hitting the stage she took to Twitter to let fans know that she was not expecting a perfect performance, which turned out to be correct

The Canadian singer-songwriter explained how the second half of her set was new songs that weren't properly finished and mastered

Grimes even shared a disclaimer about her intro entrance but that turned out to go off fine

Grimes will get the opportunity to redeem herself, fix the technical issues, and deliver a more cohesive performance at 2024 Coachella next Saturday, April 20

'The first half of the set is more mixes I made, then the end is all new things / nothing is mastered yet if there's volume dips and whatnot - Imo the songs you will prob enjoy the most r Fantasia (tears r data) and synchronize, but my self indulgent favourite is liberté,' she explained.

'I still need to still do vocal stacks on the chorus but my tour manager has banned me from making more edits,' she wrote. 'I did not have time to finish the requested cyber twee since that type of music doesn't go off live very well but it's coming too.' 

Moments later she shared another disclaimer.  'I was not able to rehearse tiding on top of the mechanical spider for safety reasons so if I am unable to gracefully get off the spider plz forgive me.'

Grimes will get the opportunity to redeem herself, fix the technical issues, and deliver a more cohesive performance at 2024 Coachella next Saturday, April 20.

The artist began her career in music after moving to Montreal in 2006, which subsequently led to her first two studio albums in 2010.

She has since dropped three more albums throughout the years leading up to 2020 when she released her most recent Miss Anthropocene, only a few weeks before COVID-19 was deemed a pandemic.

Aside from her jam-packed music schedule, the star has also had new developments in her personal life.

In March she debuted her new romance with 35-year-old DJ Anyma and went Instagram official with their relationship

Grimes and ex-boyfriend Elon Musk, 52, share three children: X Æ A-Xii, four, Exa Dark Sideræl, around two, and Techno Mechanicus, who was born sometime in 2022

In March she debuted her new romance Anyma and went Instagram official with their relationship. She posted three photos with the 35-year-old DJ to social media with the caption: 'Beauty and the Beast'.

The second photo in her post showed them sharing a kiss.

This comes two years after her split with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, 52.

Grimes and ex Elon share three children: X Æ A-Xii, four, Exa Dark Sideræl, around two, and Techno Mechanicus, who was born sometime in 2022. 

They dated for about three years with the couple separating in March 2022. 

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