Sneak Peek | Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
Advanced sneak peek excerpt from YouTube Originals upcoming documentary feature, “Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert,” premiering April 10, 2020.
Video Transcript
- Everybody knows what Coachella is. Even if you don't care about music, you know.
- The Coachella Valley music and arts festival wrapped up yesterday. It's a huge concert. It goes over two weekends.
- A rite of passage for any millennial is attending Coachella.
BARACK OBAMA: This is not a rock concert. This is not Coachella.
- I came for the chaos, Coachella!
[CHEERING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- The biggest artists in the world do Coachella. So the pressure is there to bring it.
- You cannot escape it. And it became Beychella. Beyonce took it over this weekend.
[CHEERING]
- More people talking about your performance. You want to open the paper the next day, see them talking about you did and not what three acts before you did.
- This morning, the most talked about concert on the planet was a weekend performance from someone who's been dead for 15 years.
- Make some noise for Tupac.
[CHEERING]
- You're going to be judged, man, when you hit Coachella's stage. And it's going to be talked about for the rest of the year. So you better get your shit right.
- Make some noise for Post Malone.
[CHEERING]
- Coming from my world, they've always been extremely welcoming. I think the programming's always been extremely progressive. They put everything on from rock or hip-hop to electronic music.
- Coachella has been able to facilitate a space for all of these styles of music to exist.
- What's going on? You're in Coachella, [INAUDIBLE]
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- I played in '99, 1999, which I think was the first Coachella. I remember Paul Tollett, who was one of the guys who started Coachella, told me he had this idea of starting a festival in the middle of the desert. And it seemed like a remarkable idea, but I didn't expect it to actually work.
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BEYONCE: Coachella, y'all with me.
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