Grimes had a challenging Saturday performance at Coachella due to technical difficulties, which she mentioned put her “not in the best mood.”
Grimes expressed her apologies on social media on Sunday for the technical difficulties that occurred during her Coachella performance over the weekend.
Throughout her show on Saturday, the singer-songwriter faced numerous equipment malfunctions. These issues mainly affected the programming of her tracks at the mixing desk, resulting in her having to scream into the microphone during the second half of her set.
In her explanation on X (formerly Twitter), she mentioned that the cdjs were displaying incorrect bpms, making it impossible for her to manually mix the tracks by ear. Additionally, the front monitors were not functioning properly, causing sonic chaos on her end as she tried to guess how things were sounding for her audience.
Grimes sincerely apologized for the inconvenience caused and expressed her frustration with the technical difficulties.
Read Grimes Post on X
Full Apologize:
“I want to apologize for the technical issues with the show tonight. 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. 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 cunt 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
Plz forgive me! Love, always“
