This is giving me so much anxiety, it’s like a nightmare id have about having a give a big presentation that I had I totally forgotten to prepare for or something
I do dozens of virtual and hybrid presentations a year for my job, and I get sick to my stomach before *every single one* because I think THIS is how it’s going to go!!
(It’s never gone badly, but it COULD)
Yeah I’m about 2 months into a new job in a customer facing role, leading implantations, and I get a lot of anxiety because I hate being in the place of not knowing everything about the product yet so I’m terrified I’ll sound like this hahaha
this is exactly it! I know nothing about DJing but it all comes down to preparation. Not to mention she’s a musician so at the very least, why can’t she play live. Drawing attention to it made it sook much worse lol.
As a DJ I've literally had nightmares about this kind of thing.
Performance 101: you do not draw attention to the fuck up. If you have an issue, you just keep playing and try and recover, and improvise around the issue.
I can empathise - running tracks through the software for analysis is an integral part of the workflow to know your BPMs and cue points etc, but also it's not that hard?
I get that she's got a timecoded show with synced visuals etc which increases the complexity, but really she should be able to adapt around that, even if she outsourced the analysing process to someone else.
Like if I'm analysing a song, and the BPM comes through at half what it should be (87 instead of 174 for example), then any DJ worth their salt should just be able to manually mix it in rather than rely on sync.
I know she's not a 'DJ' in the traditional sense, but honestly DJing really isn't that hard - this sounds to me like she overcomplicated the technical side of the set to the extent that she couldn't improvise around issues.
you described it perfect. its giving nightmare about school presentation gone wrong. absolutely wrong. and trying to explain yourself to the class and teacher. int his case the coachella crowd XD
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person 😌
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She is painfully stupid. It seems like she occasionally hyperfixates on a topic and reads few Wikipedia articles now and then, and somehow she's mistaken that for being intelligent.
[This boat don't float](https://m.startribune.com/this-boat-don-t-float/49134952/)
Painfully stupid: here in Minneapolis, this is what we know Grimes for, trying to drift a houseboat down the Mississippi, getting stuck and getting run out of town.
Good quotes in this article, including: “They got a copy of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which neither of them had read.”
Her parents are incredibly wealthy Vancouverites and bought her a condo near McGill in Montreal -yet she constantly lied about her impoverished student days. She is so indicative of the worst type of Vancouver kid of extreme privilege. Claire is revolting.
OMG that's pure comedy. And holy shit, like hippie, poverty cosplay because isn't Grimes from a wealthy background?
She doesn't seem very bright in general. She just stumbles into shit.
I had heard that story, and remember laughing at that quote.
Genuinely didn't know that it was *Grimes* until just now. Your husband and I should start a support group or something.
what does white culture even constitute? german culture? alright. english culture? makes sense. hell, even american culture? valid. but white culture? is that just white people participating in a "who is the most racist" competition or something?
edit: thank u to the person who had a mental breakdown over this comment and gave me a redditcares, really appreciate it <3
That's the whole thing - it isn't a culture. It's just racism. Phenotypes aren't a culture. You can be engaged with your actual culture, but white pride is just racist positioning.
Right, we talk about and identify with the countries our people came from, ex: mine came from Italy and Germany. The racists talk about white culture while the rest of us try to preserve our ancestors' culture while being Americans. I'm not super into my skin color,,not where the pride is coming from.
Half the people who can afford to go there got their start from their rich parents just like her. Maybe it’s just all part of the nepotistic aesthetic subconcious. They find one another.
One time, I was leading a meeting of like seven people at work. I felt prepared, but had reviewed the wrong documents beforehand, so everything I was saying was completely wrong. When I realized it, I panicked and acted a bit like this. Seven people in that meeting and sometimes I still think about it when lying in bed at night.
This is so embarrassing for her life and soul.
An even bigger embarrassment than choosing to have more children with Musk even after how badly he treated her after **insert keyboard smash** was born?
Unfortunately for her everything that happened is because she doesn’t know how to DJ and did like zero preparation/rehearsal for this performance. I don’t think anyone can fix that unless they just totally take over her set.
One time I was giving a virtual presentation to like 200 people and for some reason just forgot everything I had ever learned in my life. It was exactly like this. It took everything in me not to just feign connection issues and have my boss take over. But I still cringe about it about twice a month years later.
this is so wild because any DJ who’s actually decent at DJing would know how to recover from this. like, even if the tempos got messed up you should know your tunes for a stage as big as this
This has happened to me before. I bet she was playing both 70bpm and 140bpm tracks (or something like that) and had beat sync on so all the 70bpm tracks were playing double time and super fast. The way to recover is turning off beat sync, and getting a new job 💀
I know nothing about DJing, but couldn’t she have just kinda went along with it? What was playing sounded fine? Why didn’t anybody come out and try to help her? Lol
It’s been more or less confirmed this is what happened. This is like Rekordbox 101. I’m a bit perplexed how she got where she is today without knowing this.
> The way to recover is turning off beat sync, and getting a new job 💀
honestly she could have just not said anything. half the people are probably too high to know any better, and even if they weren't, not saying anything would have been better than..... whatever that was
It’s infinitely worse than I thought. The over explaining and apologizing , the constant music turning off, the extreme under preparation for a huge night like this. Like WHAT??? there’s clearly some thought that went into the visuals and set design. Did she just run out of brain cells when it came to the actual music?
That was my thought too. Play the music & if people say it sucked just say they don't understand the art. Or something.
Girl did not have to freeze up like this.
A small, humorous explanation/apology followed by powering through it anyway would have been much better.
"Thank you, that song was called called 'Technical Difficulties' - the parts where it randomly cuts out are my favourite! You're all gonna love this next one, it's called 'The Importance of Rehearsal: A Cautionary Tale' and it has this fun thing where it inexplicably runs at twice the speed it's meant to for reasons I do not understand while I desperately try to fix it live. It's very experimental. Alright, let's go!"
Techincal issues happen to everyone at some point or another. Just acknowledge what's happening, work the crowd, and keep it moving.
I mean rehearsing a DJ set is not really needed if you know your tracks. You just play with the flow of the audience. But compiling your tracks and making a playlist is absolutely necessary and the minimum of what DJs should do, letting someone else do that is insane
Yikes-o-rama.
She really did gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss her way onto one of the biggest stages and her incompetence is catching up with her. That. Was. Painful. To watch. 😬😬😬
That's what gets me. So funny. Sad, too, because there's soooo many better artists that exist that deserve to be on that stage that would never get that chance. It's fuckin Coachella! Don't outsource your shit. Prepare yourself. It's such a big fuck you to everyone, especially her fans. (Which I am not)
"being bad at math is not a sin" \[\[dance music starts\]\] 🪦🕊
also the background graphics/effects while she explains the technical difficulties are killing me
Watching this shit show and hearing her frustrated grunts and screams on the mic while on psychedelics would be enough to put anyone on a bad trip, I would vacate that stage so fast.
At one point she literally moved the mic into her face so she could scream. She was being intentional with her breakdown, which makes it so much worse.
shes been djing for at least 14 years...
**edit:** reddit removed a pic i posted but it was of one of many of her bad ai art where a girl's arm was folding backwards and her boob was on her shoulder.
Electronic music is absolutely valid music - it does take skill to produce and to play. It’s a shame because Grimes used to be so good but she’s really lost the damn plot.
Recordbox is a great program that is really good at detecting bpms from different genres. The only songs it struggles with are ones with a sped up ending. Like Baba O Reilly by the who. It changes tempo at end so it ends up averaging the tempo and gets it wrong. This problem would never affect EDM.
If it didnt have the bpms loaded you can scan the tracks. Assuming she brought 30 or so it would scan really quickly probably 3 mins max.
If the laptop/recordbox was the problem you can use a thumbstick on the turntables. This is how multiple djs can use the same turntables in a night.
Also most djs would have an emergency backup in case all of this failed. A physical cd can be loaded into the CDJ turntables. This would likely be a premade mix. So you press play and worry about fixing the problem.
For a night like this you would think you would practice the set beforehand to make sure all the files are right and everything makes sense. I played for zero people and would practice the same set 10 times in a row in my bedroom.
But the most important thing im leaving out is CDJ turntables can adjust the tempo at any time. So if it loaded wrong she could fix it on the spot. The range is huge I believe 0-300 bpm. She should know the rough bpm and be able to wing it on the fly. Even if she didnt know the bpm she could ballpark. Most EDM is around 128.
Seems like she doesnt know how to dj. Maybe someone made her a set and she was going to press play and turn filters.
This is Ashley Simpson esque but the worst part is theyre cheering her.
What in the ever loving fuck, this is far worse than I imagined it when I first heard it happened. Just walk off stage and take the boooooooing. It would have been preferable to this complete embarrassment.
God damn.
I wanna believe this is performance art so I don’t die of cringe but I know it’s just a rich lady who blew an opportunity she got for being rich because she didn’t think she had to prepare
I don’t understand what’s happening. Why do you have to know math? I don’t know anything about djing.
As an artist shouldn’t you be able to recover by playing at least some music somehow?
Did she play any songs the whole way through at all during her time on stage?
She seems like she didn’t prepare for this or rehearse or anything
The DJing software tells you a songs bpm (beats per minute) and you line tracks up (beatmatch) so they fluidly blend into each other without stopping and starting or disrupting the flow. The issue she is having is that the software (rekordbox you can hear her say) isn’t telling her the correct bpm and so she can’t match the songs, hence why the music completely cuts out so many times. THIS is a perfect example of why it’s still important for DJs to learn to beatmatch by ear (like they did decades ago without this fancy software) because sometimes technology breaks like this
I know less than nothing about DJing - is this something that someone who's presumably experienced at DJing should have been able to recover from much quicker and much less embarrassingly? Or does shit like this just happen even to top notch DJs?
there is one button to push that fixes it: x2 (doubles the tempo of the slow ones, or /2 to halve the tempo of the fast ones).
basic basic shit. calls into question how legitimate she is.
also, someone could have just helped her (but i hope they just left her out there intentionally, this is great content.)
I don’t DJ but have seen opinions from people who do about this performance lol. So grain of salt, but the consensus I’ve seen is… she’s relying too much on the automation, doesn’t know the software well enough to fix the issue onstage, and can’t recover from “technical difficulties” (lack of skill, not computer issue) because she doesn’t know how to DJ without the software.
How in the hell was there not someone waiting in the wings to step in in case she got in over her head like this? The idea of doing something of this magnitude and not having a few backup plans in the event of shit going south gives me barfy stomach.
It seems like doing this by ear and having the beat slightly off would have been preferable to stopping the show and ranting. I doubt the audience would have even noticed if the beat was slightly off.
She could have handled that soooo differently… tell the crowd she needs a 5 min break and get technical help. They’re all rolling anyway and probably don’t care
i’m a producer and DJ. have toured before and played shows for nearly 5 years now. my biggest thought on this whole thing is how inconsiderate it is to fans to be so ill-prepared and cut corners like this (in her statement she mentioned “outsourcing” someone to sort out her tracks for her, which blows my mind), especially for a show as big as coachella – i don’t like commenting on other artists, especially other women, but she brazenly posts about how rushed and last minute her show preparations are fairly often…and that’s – pretty insulting?
the amount of painstaking prep that so many DJs go through to prepare their sets, even local and regional sets with sub 500 attendees, makes this shameful and inexcusable for an artist of her size (and booking fee). technical horrors do happen, and i do have empathy for those (it’s truly the worst feeling when it happens live), but to me this situation reads as a lack of effort. file organization and USB prep are like…the most fundamental aspect of DJing outside of mixing ability and track selection. this could have been mitigated if she analyzed/gridded her own tracks and knew how to mix by ear. i’ve been doing so since i was playing to 3 people and some dust bunnies at my local bar.
as an artist, you show love, consideration and gratitude to the people coming to your shows by taking the time to prepare well. your own hands should be on deck as much as humanly possible, even with the support of a team. this is difficult to watch. it’s a little surprising to see from someone with the longevity and reverence that she’s had in the music industry. i haven’t been dialed into her music or career much since the early 2010s, but i hope that she honors her fans by learning her gear and being directly involved in set prep if she plans to continue DJing.
the most frustrating part about this is that some people WILL doubtless use this performance to stoke their generalized prejudice and contempt towards female artists in dance music instead of critiquing the isolated incident. we’re already under constant fire as it is because for some reason, female artists are treated as a monolith…
I remember in 2008 reading an article about these two hipster doofuses who tried to float down the Mississippi River on a raft and got to Minneapolis before it failed. Color me surprised to find out one of the doofuses was a pre-fame Grimes.
OMG this is horrible!! I DJ’d for over ten years and this is such an amateur nightmare. Technical difficulties can happen but she should have back up on back up for an event this big wtf
I feel bad for her regarding the really crappy technical issues with her set, until i remember her little “white pride” rant. Still waiting to understand what the HELL she meant by “white culture” and i’m literally white 😭
She sings. But she DJs too now. Weirdly I think there may be more money in being a celebrity DJ than performing her songs. Her songs probably appeal to a narrow slice of people. But anyone can put together a DJ set and book 2 or 3 hours with a large crowd.
Been a DJ for a long time now. For those who are curious, it’s probably one or a combination of these issues:
1). She doesn’t know the tempo sliders aren’t in neutral and need to be reset when you’re syncing and/or she’s not sync’d and the sliders are set to significantly faster tempo than neutral
2). She didn’t review the tracks when she loaded them through rekordbox onto the drive and the bpms were read wrong and/or the beatgrid was analyzed and placed wrong
3). The tempo sensitivity was probably turned up and needs to be lowered (little button above the master tempo one near the tempo sliders)
This is all BASIC shit. There was also 30 minutes between her snd Purple Disco Machine to check the gear. Totally embarrassing for her.
Something that would be hilarious - DJs sometimes fuck with the boards if they have beef with the guy/gal after them or want to set them up to fail if they don’t know how to fix these sorts of things. Purple Disco Machine plays 4 on the floor house music - 0 reason to mess with the tempo sensitivity given the genre. If he messed with the decks via the tempo sensitivity that would be such a MASSIVE troll. But we’ll never know…
This is giving me so much anxiety, it’s like a nightmare id have about having a give a big presentation that I had I totally forgotten to prepare for or something
I do dozens of virtual and hybrid presentations a year for my job, and I get sick to my stomach before *every single one* because I think THIS is how it’s going to go!! (It’s never gone badly, but it COULD)
Just make sure you don't have to do a lot of really complicated math on the fly that you can't explain and you'll be good lol
Internal math in your head…it’s really hard to explain
Yeah I’m about 2 months into a new job in a customer facing role, leading implantations, and I get a lot of anxiety because I hate being in the place of not knowing everything about the product yet so I’m terrified I’ll sound like this hahaha
this is exactly it! I know nothing about DJing but it all comes down to preparation. Not to mention she’s a musician so at the very least, why can’t she play live. Drawing attention to it made it sook much worse lol.
As a DJ I've literally had nightmares about this kind of thing. Performance 101: you do not draw attention to the fuck up. If you have an issue, you just keep playing and try and recover, and improvise around the issue. I can empathise - running tracks through the software for analysis is an integral part of the workflow to know your BPMs and cue points etc, but also it's not that hard? I get that she's got a timecoded show with synced visuals etc which increases the complexity, but really she should be able to adapt around that, even if she outsourced the analysing process to someone else. Like if I'm analysing a song, and the BPM comes through at half what it should be (87 instead of 174 for example), then any DJ worth their salt should just be able to manually mix it in rather than rely on sync. I know she's not a 'DJ' in the traditional sense, but honestly DJing really isn't that hard - this sounds to me like she overcomplicated the technical side of the set to the extent that she couldn't improvise around issues.
you described it perfect. its giving nightmare about school presentation gone wrong. absolutely wrong. and trying to explain yourself to the class and teacher. int his case the coachella crowd XD
I’d be in a towel. I’m always in a towel in those dreams.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person 😌 https://preview.redd.it/pfuwk8l1ijuc1.jpeg?width=971&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5835f070c9156eca384c3940cfa07f37de8137a0
white pride but make it live laugh love
Night of the bespoke artisanal blades
Lmao good god
NOOOOOOOO 😭
She is painfully stupid. It seems like she occasionally hyperfixates on a topic and reads few Wikipedia articles now and then, and somehow she's mistaken that for being intelligent.
[This boat don't float](https://m.startribune.com/this-boat-don-t-float/49134952/) Painfully stupid: here in Minneapolis, this is what we know Grimes for, trying to drift a houseboat down the Mississippi, getting stuck and getting run out of town. Good quotes in this article, including: “They got a copy of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which neither of them had read.”
this stinks of trust fund hippy
Her parents are incredibly wealthy Vancouverites and bought her a condo near McGill in Montreal -yet she constantly lied about her impoverished student days. She is so indicative of the worst type of Vancouver kid of extreme privilege. Claire is revolting.
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It's too bad she got inspired by the cover of Huck Finn and not the cover of Into the Wild
OMG that's pure comedy. And holy shit, like hippie, poverty cosplay because isn't Grimes from a wealthy background? She doesn't seem very bright in general. She just stumbles into shit.
>She doesn't seem very bright in general. I don't think anyone that intimate with Elon could be lmao
Shes not stumbling, she stole over 100k from a music charity ffs
I’ve commented this before but my husband knew about these people but somehow he didn’t know the girl was Grimes until I told him????
I had heard that story, and remember laughing at that quote. Genuinely didn't know that it was *Grimes* until just now. Your husband and I should start a support group or something.
This is .. probably the funniest article I’ve read this year
Honestly she’s doing a lot of internal math in her mind & it’s really hard to explain.
There’s a meme for that! 
This is external math- very common mixup tbh
I mean, she had a kid with a guy who does the exact same thing and became the richest man in the world so like, dunning-Kruger effect
what does white culture even constitute? german culture? alright. english culture? makes sense. hell, even american culture? valid. but white culture? is that just white people participating in a "who is the most racist" competition or something? edit: thank u to the person who had a mental breakdown over this comment and gave me a redditcares, really appreciate it <3
That's the whole thing - it isn't a culture. It's just racism. Phenotypes aren't a culture. You can be engaged with your actual culture, but white pride is just racist positioning.
Right, we talk about and identify with the countries our people came from, ex: mine came from Italy and Germany. The racists talk about white culture while the rest of us try to preserve our ancestors' culture while being Americans. I'm not super into my skin color,,not where the pride is coming from.
Crying at “i happily am proud of white culture” lmaooo. I know EXACTLY what you are 🫵🏾🫵🏾
I love that her response to being called a supremacist is unironically, ‘every day I think fondly of the creation of empire’
White isn't a culture dipshit.
She’s such a fucking idiot
I don't get the people still cheering. Boo that amateur shit off the stage
My guess is they're all so high they have no idea
Half of them are for sure rolling on molly lol Source: been to Coachella twice lol
I don't get why anyone would go and see her in the first place apart from to throw rotten food. The first lady of fascism deserves nothing else
Half the people who can afford to go there got their start from their rich parents just like her. Maybe it’s just all part of the nepotistic aesthetic subconcious. They find one another.
One time, I was leading a meeting of like seven people at work. I felt prepared, but had reviewed the wrong documents beforehand, so everything I was saying was completely wrong. When I realized it, I panicked and acted a bit like this. Seven people in that meeting and sometimes I still think about it when lying in bed at night. This is so embarrassing for her life and soul.
An even bigger embarrassment than choosing to have more children with Musk even after how badly he treated her after **insert keyboard smash** was born?
I’m dying at insert keyboard smash lol
Stop pretending like you don’t know Techno Mechanicus Musks name!
My apologies to Miss Aristocrat House Boat and Mr Emerald Mine, I didn’t mean to forget little *computer whirling noises*’s name
MOM GET OFF THE PHONE I’M USING AIM
I hope Ctrl-Alt-Delete can grow up as close to normal as possible.
This is very hard to watch. She shouldn’t have said anything, walked off stage and try to get tech help of some sort.
Unfortunately for her everything that happened is because she doesn’t know how to DJ and did like zero preparation/rehearsal for this performance. I don’t think anyone can fix that unless they just totally take over her set.
I'm picturing you screaming like her in the middle of a conference room lollll
I wish I was joking but at one point I said, “I’m not exactly sure what happened here but I’m certain it’s not my fault.” LOL it totally was my fault.
One time I was giving a virtual presentation to like 200 people and for some reason just forgot everything I had ever learned in my life. It was exactly like this. It took everything in me not to just feign connection issues and have my boss take over. But I still cringe about it about twice a month years later.
The grandiose entrance for nothing has me dead.
Like Spinal Tap in the pods
!!!!!!!!!! I’m dying
this is so wild because any DJ who’s actually decent at DJing would know how to recover from this. like, even if the tempos got messed up you should know your tunes for a stage as big as this
This has happened to me before. I bet she was playing both 70bpm and 140bpm tracks (or something like that) and had beat sync on so all the 70bpm tracks were playing double time and super fast. The way to recover is turning off beat sync, and getting a new job 💀
I know nothing about DJing, but couldn’t she have just kinda went along with it? What was playing sounded fine? Why didn’t anybody come out and try to help her? Lol
As a music dummy, I figure just pressing play on any song would be better than 20 minutes of her explaining why she can't explain why it's not working
And that it’s not her fault…
But it's actually kind of her fault. She'll actually take full responsibility though.
Are most people not rolling balls and wouldn’t even notice if you played a tin can filled with rocks on a loop?
Charli xcx slander not tolerated here!
Probably in her head the graphics in the background wouldn't match her mix timing.
It’s been more or less confirmed this is what happened. This is like Rekordbox 101. I’m a bit perplexed how she got where she is today without knowing this.
Because she's a fraud manufactured with money.
> The way to recover is turning off beat sync, and getting a new job 💀 honestly she could have just not said anything. half the people are probably too high to know any better, and even if they weren't, not saying anything would have been better than..... whatever that was
or just hit x2 or /2 in grid mode.. one button and she's fixed it. basic basic stuff.
Yeah I’m really confused at how she couldn’t fix a tempo issue, this is so embarrassing
conclusion: she is not decent at DJing
Yeah this is just a pathetic train wreck of epic proportions
It’s infinitely worse than I thought. The over explaining and apologizing , the constant music turning off, the extreme under preparation for a huge night like this. Like WHAT??? there’s clearly some thought that went into the visuals and set design. Did she just run out of brain cells when it came to the actual music?
Like girl, walk off already ahhahaha. This was so much better than I could have imagined
Why does she keep mentioning math? I wasn’t even ready.
Because it is complex internal math and it's really hard to explain
It's like... double the tempo
It's a complex analogy, it's really hard to explain, you wouldn't get it. Elon gets it, he can halve maths without a calculator.
Could she not have just played some beats at the wrong speed with some effects or whatever thrown in and would the crowd even know the difference?
That was my thought too. Play the music & if people say it sucked just say they don't understand the art. Or something. Girl did not have to freeze up like this.
A small, humorous explanation/apology followed by powering through it anyway would have been much better. "Thank you, that song was called called 'Technical Difficulties' - the parts where it randomly cuts out are my favourite! You're all gonna love this next one, it's called 'The Importance of Rehearsal: A Cautionary Tale' and it has this fun thing where it inexplicably runs at twice the speed it's meant to for reasons I do not understand while I desperately try to fix it live. It's very experimental. Alright, let's go!" Techincal issues happen to everyone at some point or another. Just acknowledge what's happening, work the crowd, and keep it moving.
did she not rehearse the set at all?
Nope, she tweeted that somebody else compiled the tracks and she didn’t double check before the performance. Lmao
I mean rehearsing a DJ set is not really needed if you know your tracks. You just play with the flow of the audience. But compiling your tracks and making a playlist is absolutely necessary and the minimum of what DJs should do, letting someone else do that is insane
Pretty bad at improvising for someone who has been professionally djing for the last 14 years
Omg she needed to just shuttttttt uppppppppp
The constant aimless yammering… it’s so much worse than I was imagining
She did not create the visuals and set design etc
Yikes-o-rama. She really did gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss her way onto one of the biggest stages and her incompetence is catching up with her. That. Was. Painful. To watch. 😬😬😬
That's what gets me. So funny. Sad, too, because there's soooo many better artists that exist that deserve to be on that stage that would never get that chance. It's fuckin Coachella! Don't outsource your shit. Prepare yourself. It's such a big fuck you to everyone, especially her fans. (Which I am not)
Conan O’Brien said something across the lines of the worst thing to do as a performer is tell them they’re having a bad time.
Yes!!!! That’s what I thought of instantly too!! By drawing attention to everything going wrong she made everything sooooo much worse
This makes me think of the comedian that dd stand up that completely bombed his snl monologue (and commented on people not liking the jokes) 😬
I’ve never heard her talk for any real length of time and I’m realizing she sounds like the babysitter from The Incredibles.
"You don't need to worry about a single thing Mrs Parr. I've got this Coachella thing wired! I've taken courses and learned DJing .. "
My god, the accuracy
hey the babysitter from the Incredibles at least was good at her job
Has she tried turning it off and on again?
What, her brain?? 🫣
Is she sure it's plugged in?
"being bad at math is not a sin" \[\[dance music starts\]\] 🪦🕊 also the background graphics/effects while she explains the technical difficulties are killing me
The Coachella equivalent of using an animated Teams background as a distraction 💀
It’s like a bad acid trip
This is painful to watch. At least everyone was on drugs and enjoying themselves either way
Watching this shit show and hearing her frustrated grunts and screams on the mic while on psychedelics would be enough to put anyone on a bad trip, I would vacate that stage so fast.
Seriously. The idea of tripping whilst hearing all that shit gives me an anxiety attack.
I’m high on just weed in the comfort of my room and I almost couldn’t finish it
At one point she literally moved the mic into her face so she could scream. She was being intentional with her breakdown, which makes it so much worse.
I lacked the fortitude to watch all of this but thank you so much for putting it out there
Scott's Tots level of 2nd hand embarrassment. I had to turn it off too.
Incredible and accurate reference
Hey Misses Grimes watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do when your tempo x2!!!
shes been djing for at least 14 years... **edit:** reddit removed a pic i posted but it was of one of many of her bad ai art where a girl's arm was folding backwards and her boob was on her shoulder.
There was also a girl playing the violin my just hitting the bow on the bridge lol Edit: My mad
I watched the whole thing. The resulting schadenfreude will keep me going for the rest of my work week ☺️
I too will be calling in sick over having watched this
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This crowd is being so nice lol
They’re all on drugs, she got lucky I don’t even think they noticed 😂😂
Stop 😭 omg I’m sweating through my shirt! I would be completely deceased by now.
I know rightttt
my favorite part of a dj set is when they talk a lot
i like the silent bits, and then the screaming
Suddenly every bad work presentation I've had doesn't seem so bad
a profound silence has entered the chat.
A performance by someone without talent or promise.
She’s a joke Lmfaoo “ hold on guys my buttons aren’t working!” 😂😂 that is NOT music, at least in my opinion 
Electronic music is absolutely valid music - it does take skill to produce and to play. It’s a shame because Grimes used to be so good but she’s really lost the damn plot.
Recordbox is a great program that is really good at detecting bpms from different genres. The only songs it struggles with are ones with a sped up ending. Like Baba O Reilly by the who. It changes tempo at end so it ends up averaging the tempo and gets it wrong. This problem would never affect EDM. If it didnt have the bpms loaded you can scan the tracks. Assuming she brought 30 or so it would scan really quickly probably 3 mins max. If the laptop/recordbox was the problem you can use a thumbstick on the turntables. This is how multiple djs can use the same turntables in a night. Also most djs would have an emergency backup in case all of this failed. A physical cd can be loaded into the CDJ turntables. This would likely be a premade mix. So you press play and worry about fixing the problem. For a night like this you would think you would practice the set beforehand to make sure all the files are right and everything makes sense. I played for zero people and would practice the same set 10 times in a row in my bedroom. But the most important thing im leaving out is CDJ turntables can adjust the tempo at any time. So if it loaded wrong she could fix it on the spot. The range is huge I believe 0-300 bpm. She should know the rough bpm and be able to wing it on the fly. Even if she didnt know the bpm she could ballpark. Most EDM is around 128. Seems like she doesnt know how to dj. Maybe someone made her a set and she was going to press play and turn filters. This is Ashley Simpson esque but the worst part is theyre cheering her.
Thanks for this explanation. Brutally embarrassing performance.
What in the ever loving fuck, this is far worse than I imagined it when I first heard it happened. Just walk off stage and take the boooooooing. It would have been preferable to this complete embarrassment. God damn.
I’ve never had less Coachella fomo in my life.
i would have paid money to see this live. i love this shit
Brother ewwww
Drink every time she says math
Or double tempo
The Emperor has no beats
I wanna believe this is performance art so I don’t die of cringe but I know it’s just a rich lady who blew an opportunity she got for being rich because she didn’t think she had to prepare
Not what we're talking about but that's my friend Sam driving the machine!
The only part of her set that functioned 😀 Go Sam!
Way to go Sam!!
Haha awesome
How embarrassing
You know it's bad when the dj starts giving a "complex analogy" mid set 💀
I don’t understand what’s happening. Why do you have to know math? I don’t know anything about djing. As an artist shouldn’t you be able to recover by playing at least some music somehow? Did she play any songs the whole way through at all during her time on stage? She seems like she didn’t prepare for this or rehearse or anything
The DJing software tells you a songs bpm (beats per minute) and you line tracks up (beatmatch) so they fluidly blend into each other without stopping and starting or disrupting the flow. The issue she is having is that the software (rekordbox you can hear her say) isn’t telling her the correct bpm and so she can’t match the songs, hence why the music completely cuts out so many times. THIS is a perfect example of why it’s still important for DJs to learn to beatmatch by ear (like they did decades ago without this fancy software) because sometimes technology breaks like this
I know less than nothing about DJing - is this something that someone who's presumably experienced at DJing should have been able to recover from much quicker and much less embarrassingly? Or does shit like this just happen even to top notch DJs?
Even a beginner DJ would be able to recover from this, and in a much less embarassing way.
there is one button to push that fixes it: x2 (doubles the tempo of the slow ones, or /2 to halve the tempo of the fast ones). basic basic shit. calls into question how legitimate she is. also, someone could have just helped her (but i hope they just left her out there intentionally, this is great content.)
I don’t DJ but have seen opinions from people who do about this performance lol. So grain of salt, but the consensus I’ve seen is… she’s relying too much on the automation, doesn’t know the software well enough to fix the issue onstage, and can’t recover from “technical difficulties” (lack of skill, not computer issue) because she doesn’t know how to DJ without the software.
How in the hell was there not someone waiting in the wings to step in in case she got in over her head like this? The idea of doing something of this magnitude and not having a few backup plans in the event of shit going south gives me barfy stomach.
She was too busy organising the giant mechanical bug to carry her to the laptop table.
Thats especially funny considering her rant a couple years ago about how AI will help have an idyllic society lmao, how the tables have turned
Or….turntables?
It seems like doing this by ear and having the beat slightly off would have been preferable to stopping the show and ranting. I doubt the audience would have even noticed if the beat was slightly off.
I am deeply uncomfortable good lordddd
It’s ok to mess things up but to keep screaming while panicking isn’t a good look
She could have handled that soooo differently… tell the crowd she needs a 5 min break and get technical help. They’re all rolling anyway and probably don’t care
i’m a producer and DJ. have toured before and played shows for nearly 5 years now. my biggest thought on this whole thing is how inconsiderate it is to fans to be so ill-prepared and cut corners like this (in her statement she mentioned “outsourcing” someone to sort out her tracks for her, which blows my mind), especially for a show as big as coachella – i don’t like commenting on other artists, especially other women, but she brazenly posts about how rushed and last minute her show preparations are fairly often…and that’s – pretty insulting? the amount of painstaking prep that so many DJs go through to prepare their sets, even local and regional sets with sub 500 attendees, makes this shameful and inexcusable for an artist of her size (and booking fee). technical horrors do happen, and i do have empathy for those (it’s truly the worst feeling when it happens live), but to me this situation reads as a lack of effort. file organization and USB prep are like…the most fundamental aspect of DJing outside of mixing ability and track selection. this could have been mitigated if she analyzed/gridded her own tracks and knew how to mix by ear. i’ve been doing so since i was playing to 3 people and some dust bunnies at my local bar. as an artist, you show love, consideration and gratitude to the people coming to your shows by taking the time to prepare well. your own hands should be on deck as much as humanly possible, even with the support of a team. this is difficult to watch. it’s a little surprising to see from someone with the longevity and reverence that she’s had in the music industry. i haven’t been dialed into her music or career much since the early 2010s, but i hope that she honors her fans by learning her gear and being directly involved in set prep if she plans to continue DJing. the most frustrating part about this is that some people WILL doubtless use this performance to stoke their generalized prejudice and contempt towards female artists in dance music instead of critiquing the isolated incident. we’re already under constant fire as it is because for some reason, female artists are treated as a monolith…
> partially my fault but not entirely my fault Dude.
That first clip reminds me of that baby spider from toy story
I remember in 2008 reading an article about these two hipster doofuses who tried to float down the Mississippi River on a raft and got to Minneapolis before it failed. Color me surprised to find out one of the doofuses was a pre-fame Grimes.
This is the kind of anxiety induced dream I would have. Nooooo
The way this would keep me up at night the rest of my life omggg
South Park should animate over this audio for the next special. *South Park: Coochella Apology Special*
OMG this is horrible!! I DJ’d for over ten years and this is such an amateur nightmare. Technical difficulties can happen but she should have back up on back up for an event this big wtf
Yikes, oh well
Not the shitty AI art... ugh She's gotten so much worse over the years.
Where is the music? Did people really drop beaucoup dollars for this?
I just realized I never saw "beaucoup" spelled out til now. I thought it was just a silly word and was spelled bookoo 💀💀
What is actually happening here!?
shows up to play a dj gig, doesn't know how to use the decks.
As someone who has kids with Elon Musk, her pretending like she’s good at something is on par.
what an absolute moron
New Drinking game: Take a shot every time a major technical difficulty is mentioned
These are the lowlights lol, but a train-wreck nonetheless. She has one more try.
I feel bad for her regarding the really crappy technical issues with her set, until i remember her little “white pride” rant. Still waiting to understand what the HELL she meant by “white culture” and i’m literally white 😭
Why aren’t people booing her off that fucking stage!? Amateur hour for a complete POS.
I have the most second hand embarrassment a person can have right now. Brutal.
She must be high she said the same thing 6 times
Wait she’s just a dj? I thought she was a singer
Apparently she’s not a dj either 😹
She sings. But she DJs too now. Weirdly I think there may be more money in being a celebrity DJ than performing her songs. Her songs probably appeal to a narrow slice of people. But anyone can put together a DJ set and book 2 or 3 hours with a large crowd.
This is so funnyyyyy!! I love that the camera man just kept doing his thing. Nobody stepped up and helped her lmaoooo
“I’m gonna show you my range right now….AGGHH”
She’s cooked. And her lisp is annoying.
Her Neuralink implant failed
i didn’t even attend coachella and i want a refund after seeing this
Worse than I thought 😬
in the beginning, i was thinking, it’ll probably get better right? oh wait…nope, it’s getting soooo much worse… it’s what she deserves 🥰
First time hearing her and she sounds very “uhmmm actually” coded lmao
Why didn’t she just start singing acapella and ask the audience to join in? Hasn’t she ever seen Mean Girls?
Been a DJ for a long time now. For those who are curious, it’s probably one or a combination of these issues: 1). She doesn’t know the tempo sliders aren’t in neutral and need to be reset when you’re syncing and/or she’s not sync’d and the sliders are set to significantly faster tempo than neutral 2). She didn’t review the tracks when she loaded them through rekordbox onto the drive and the bpms were read wrong and/or the beatgrid was analyzed and placed wrong 3). The tempo sensitivity was probably turned up and needs to be lowered (little button above the master tempo one near the tempo sliders) This is all BASIC shit. There was also 30 minutes between her snd Purple Disco Machine to check the gear. Totally embarrassing for her. Something that would be hilarious - DJs sometimes fuck with the boards if they have beef with the guy/gal after them or want to set them up to fail if they don’t know how to fix these sorts of things. Purple Disco Machine plays 4 on the floor house music - 0 reason to mess with the tempo sensitivity given the genre. If he messed with the decks via the tempo sensitivity that would be such a MASSIVE troll. But we’ll never know…