{"id":374239,"date":"2026-04-11T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:40:09","slug":"coachella-headliners-show-saved-by-will-ferrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374239\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella headliner’s show saved by Will Ferrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina Carpenter delivered a roaringly confident headlining performance at Coachella<\/a>, with at least half a dozen costume changes and a staggering amount of sets, creating her own universe, dubbed \u201cSabrinawood.\u201d One might\u2019ve expected some superstar musical guests, but Carpenter instead went to a roster of A-list actors to accentuate her triumphant pop music.<\/p>\n

At one point, actress Susan\u00a0Sarandon performed a brief monologue as an older version of Carpenter, but it was Will Ferrell<\/a> who came through to truly save the day.<\/p>\n

After a sultry performance of \u201cBad Chem,\u201d the lights dimmed and Ferrell appeared on the long catwalk wearing an electrician’s uniform and dragging a large power cable.<\/p>\n

\u201cGosh darnit, did the power go out again? Oh my god. Unbelievable. Typical Coachella,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is why you do a tech run-through, but these guys didn\u2019t want to do the tech run-through. Waste of my day. I wanted to work Stagecoach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSabrina Carpenter, I don’t know. I don’t know, I\u2019m sleeping in my car. Someone probably put a Diet Coke on the console board, that’s what’s going on. Do you guys mind if I have a smoke?\u201d he said, struggling to light a cigarette in the wind.<\/p>\n

“By the way, does anybody have room in their Airbnb for me?” he asked.<\/p>\n

After a few more seconds of theatrics, Ferrell reconnected the power and the lights came back on, revealing a new set showing a glamorous downtown scene covered in theater marquees. Carpenter walked back onstage in a lacy black one-piece with a flowing tail to continue what will go down as one of the most memorable Coachella sets of the year.<\/p>\n

The festival continues through the rest of the weekend, with Justin Bieber headlining Saturday night and Karol G concluding the festival on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter delivered a roaringly confident headlining performance at Coachella, with at least half a dozen costume changes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,195234,189445],"class_list":{"0":"post-374239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sfgcoachella","14":"tag-sfgculture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}