Purple is the color of royalty. For her debut solo performance at Coachella 2024, Chlöe was a vision in wisteria, a queen of the stage primed to reign over the desert for 45 minutes straight.
The first time Chlöe ever performed at Coachella was back in 2018 (during Beychella) alongside her sister Halle Bailey on the Mojave Stage, as the duo Chloe x Halle. Six years later, Chlöe is holding her own at the Gobi Stage right next door.
Throughout her set of deep cuts, mashups, and certified hits — “Have Mercy,” “Cheatback,” “Body Do” and Doechii and SZA’s “Persuasive,” “Surprise” and Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me,” her new singles “FYS” and “Boy Bye,” the latter sprinkled with an interpolation of Outkast’s Hey Ya!” — the singer displayed a level of technical skill and raw talent that was akin in rarity to, say, an asteroid impact. You don’t see popstars like this every day.
Ahead of her Weekend 2 performance, Chlöe (or “Miss Bailey if you’re nasty”) gave Teen Vogue an inside look at her debut solo performance at Coachella, breaking down her Weekend One — from cheering on her pal Victoria Monét, flights back and forth between Atlanta and Palm Springs, and performing the second single from her upcoming sophomore solo album, which she says is the ultimate “summer vibes album.”
Teen Vogue: Let’s talk Chlö-chella. What were your days like leading up to your set?
Chlöe: I just finished this television show called Fight Night, and it’s been so amazing being on set with Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle, the list goes on and on. In between Coachella rehearsals, I’ve been flying back and forth to Atlanta so that I can fulfill my duties as Lena — which is the role I play — and also my duties as Chlöe, so I could give a killer set. I worked with my choreographer, Aisha Francis, these six incredible dancers, as well as my music director, Derek Dixie, and we got the job done. It was very hectic, not much sleep on my end, but it was all worth it and I can’t wait to do it again in a day and a half.