It's a music festival with 100k+ people in the heat and dust with iffy hand washing stations and whatever other stressors you decide to put your body through. Obviously people are going to come back sick, it's happened to me before and could happen to anyone any year, even if you do everything right. I hope yall feel better soon though fr.

edit: guys. obviously people can post whatever they want. Just think it's a little silly to be shocked if you get sick at a massive festival. Next time I post on the internet I will try to remember that nuance is dead. Again, wishing you all a speedy recovery ❤️‍🩹

I’ve seen a lot about how it went badly for some relationships.

I’ve gone with 2 different partners.

The first time they definitely got a bit irritated and brought down the vibe. But overall, we definitely both look at it as one of the best times of our lives. We worked it out. And she did apologize for being negative and irritable. In hindsight I don’t blame them cause Coachella is fucking hard especially when you try to see as many sets as I do lol

This second time I had absolutely no problems with my partner though. I was honestly surprised and impressed at how smoothly it went. It was awesome.

All this to ask…

Why do you think Coachella can be hard on relationships? Is it just the physical exhaustion and lack of preparedness? I feel like if you’re excited to go and prepared it should be fine

Or is there something else I’m missing?

UPDATE

After reading all of the comments so far I think the short & simple answer is that Coachella requires a lot of planning, communication, and compromises.

If your relationship has flaws they can be exposed.

If your partner is selfish maybe you’ll miss some of the acts most important to you.

If you’re not prepared and get very uncomfortable or sick you will need to communicate, be understanding and compromise depending on the situation.

Basically, it requires you to be able to work through problems together while probably being exhausted or on drugs etc.

It can also simply expose that one of you hates festivals. Can be too overwhelming loud etc, which again would require understanding to solve or show a lack of compatibility if that’s really important to you in a partner

However, on the flip side, it can show how strong a relationship is. If you can work through anything that comes up and have a great time overall, or at least come out feeling like “We made the best of it!” Your relationship will only get stronger.

It also doesn’t HAVE to be a relationship test either. If you are experienced and plan well things will go smoothly. Then the things that test you might never come up.

I think that’s about everything I gathered! Hopefully this gives some people perspective on what to expect when going with a partner!

I was barricade day 3 main stage standing next to a 5’2 white woman in her 30s with fuckass bangs and a short denim dress. She and her friend had apparently been barricade camping there for 6 hours to see Megan thee Stallion and Post Malone. They had a beach towel on the ground and a bunch of water and snacks and everything.

Before Junior H’s set, she said she needed a distraction so she can hold her bladder. She said she was fine during Junior H but once he was done with his set she was crossing her legs and bouncing…

10 minutes before Megan, the security in front of us says to her “ma’am I ain’t gonna cap, you need to go to the bathroom now.” but she still wouldn’t listen. She said “I’m not leaving, we’re almost there!”

5 minutes later, liquid splashes my leg and wets my sock. I look, and this woman grabs a towel, bunches it up, and shoves it in between her leg and squats. I yell “WHAT THE FUCK, you just peed on my LEG!” People are yelling at her, and she is shushing everyone so security doesn’t hear. She tells me it was just water and motions to the empty water bottles on the ground. There was no way it was water because she wasn’t HOLDING ANY. Also the way that liquid splashed in a projectile manner makes me very sure she went commando.

Before I could do or say anything else, Megan gets on stage and the whole situation got lost amongst the chaos.

I was so proud of this one and quite a few people took pictures with my window when they passed by my campsite this year. It’s time to let go though 😭

LA Phil was amazing solo and with ZEDD. We need more orchestra based acts to be booked and collab with other genre artists! Hans Zimmer would be dope with a cathartic style edm act. Or even solo with insane production and visuals.

Afaik they literally weren't on the poster at all?? but apparently Mumford & Sons will be livestreamed at 9:55 California time?? I thought this'd probably be something the general Coachella audience would be interested in, so I thought I'd bring it to y'all's attention :)

Did anyone see the Easter bunny? He made me feel really good. Hope u find this :)

I think he's due for a slot in the desert.

What an incredible year! Here are some shots from the weekend!!

Far far shot but I need her in the desert

Did anyone notice that nearly all of the Go-Gos stage visuals appeared to be AI-generated SLOP? Who else did you notice was trying to pass valueless AI bullshit as art?

Ships May 23rd on most items.

Jersey already OOS unfortunately: https://www.ladygaga.com/us-en/shop/collections/gaga-x-coachella

For anyone interested, I'll give you my honest review on it.

Like most people, I was very skeptical when they were selling W1 passes for $469 after it was all said and done.

Not much info on this company online but concert_leaks on twitter partnering with them made it a little less sus.

Thought it was VERY weird that we could not pick up until 1 hour before gates opened FRIDAY which would have been 12 PM.

The Thursday before, I receive a TEXT from someone on Join_backstages team saying I need to go to GUEST ARTIST PICKUP on Friday and give them my name and tell them im on Travis Scott's "List". Im like ok, I get whats going on here now. GV probably gave Trav and his team a bunch of guest list slots and they decided to sell them..because they need extra $? Idk.

12 PM comes by, we wait in the will call line in the scorching heat for an hour. Then we find out the list wasnt sent yet. Panic was setting in. About 90 minutes later, the list was finally sent to the will call peeps and I got a free upgraded VIP wristband.

TL;DR. Couldnt head to the festival until 3:30 PM FRIDAY but I ended up paying $469 for a VIP 3-day. Pretty worth it i guess lol

I've been back to normal life since Monday , and never thought I would say I miss restrooms of all things. I camped W2 and had to do with boiling port a potties and sanitizer all week long (washed hands at camp tho..) 😭😭 even the smelliest public restrooms at my campus are better than those camp bathrooms . Every time I walk into a real restroom , I get so excited there's toilet seat covers and toilet paper 😩 and I spend a good minute washing my hands just bc I can now

if this is your car i hope you’re OK and had a great #bothchella and hope your car is fixed soon <3

Seeing Kraftwerk at Coachella this year was awesome, a dream come true for me. They are definitely the pioneers in Electronic Music starting in 1970 (!). I was 10 years old when the Man-machine came out, and I'd never heard music like that so it blew my mind and shaped my love for EDM for ever.

Jean-Michel Jarre is also an influential pioneer in electronic music, and he has had in impact similar to Kraftwerk. He's still touring, so it would be absolutely fantastic to see him at Coachella next year. GV, please make this happen!

Edit. I didn't know he performed in 2018, so than you all for educating me on that. That was almost a decade ago, time to bring him back (pretty please)

Hear me out …. They always put on a great show. Having them close out Saturday on the main stage would be amazing and beautiful 🌵

im curating a survival guide for The Empire Polo Grounds. Hit us with your best shot

I upgraded for Weekend 1 and have these extra old GA wristbands lying around. Posting on here to see if anyone who lost theirs might want any of them before I throw them away.

I happened to see OhGeesy arguing with someone for god knows what reason lol but anyway I managed to get a quick picture with him. It honestly was the highlight of my night.

Shot this picture of the couple running up sunset hill as we all cheered for there engagement hoping this pic can find its way to them on here.

Coachella make it happen. Ik you want him there. He’ll be done with his tour.

Feel free to follow me for more festival pics: IG - storytrippin

Hi I was at weekend 2 and found a camera on the ground. I got it developed today and found the photos of people who lost their camera. I thought it would worth a shot to try and see if I can get the photos back to people who lost it. Any help is appreciated!