Charli xcx introduced her “Brat” tour to Coachella together with lots of the visitors she’s had on the album (and onstage) within the ten months since she launched the album: Billie Eilish, Lorde and Troye Sivan — and in an uncharacteristically sentimental typed montage on the enormous video screens on the present’s finish, she teased that although summer time is lengthy since over, she by no means desires “Brat Summer season” to finish.

The veteran singer-songwriter-producer dropped a coy trace within the days earlier than the pageant, utilizing the road-to-Coachella-billboard custom to tease the looks by taking out a billboard within the trademark bilious shade of sunshine inexperienced featured on the Grammy-winning “Brat” album cowl, however with the phrase crossed out. It set off the anticipated flurry of social-media hypothesis, none of it conclusive. (Much more apparent was Eilish’s Instagram story yesterday: a clean slate of “Brat” inexperienced.

Charli’s efficiency was sturdy however principally the identical set she’s been touring since her joint “Sweat” tour with Sivan final fall, albeit with not solely him (for “Discuss Discuss”) but additionally a khaki-clad Lorde (who’d additionally joined her onstage in New York in September for “Woman, So Complicated”) and Eilish (for the remix of “Guess”). As traditional, nevertheless, Charli was onstage solo for many of the evening, bodying the songs together with her trademark unusually violent dancing: exhausting fist pumps and hair-whipping, torso wrenching and writhing on the stage flooring.

Each music besides three have been from the album: She additionally served up 2017’s “Unlock It,” 2019’s “Blame It on Your Love” and completed with the music that launched her profession as a hitmaker, “I Love It,” the Icona Pop international hit that she wrote and co-produced. And simply because it appeared the present was over, phrases started showing in a sluggish sequence, in her acquainted fashion and typefaces, on the enormous screens on both facet of the stage as she stood and basked within the applause.

“Thanks a lot Coachella,” they started. “Does this imply that brat summer time is lastly over????? … Idk? … Perhaps? … yeah cuz duh it was already over like final yr. … wait… was it? … NO???… I don’t know who I’m if it’s over??? FUCKKKKK…. Wait… I remembered…I’m Charli XCX… and actually… I simply need this second to final ceaselessly… PLEASE DON’T LET IT BE OVER.” And with that, the lights went down.

Realistically, “Brat Summer season” was more likely to final at the least till the autumn, as she’s received a brace of U.S. space dates following Coachella, after which will likely be acting at European festivals all summer time.