Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicHarry Styles started off his headlining set at Coachella on Friday night with a simple greeting. “Good evening.
My name is Harry.”We know, the masses must have thought in unison. After all, there were tens of thousands gathered on a polo field in Indio, California to catch his set, and as many tuning in live on YouTube.“It’s big in here, innit?” Styles cracked, before explaining how things were gonna go. “For the next 80-or-something minutes, our job is to entertain you.
I promise you we’ll do our absolute very best. You also have one job — that is to have much fun as you possibly can. I want you to be whoever it is you always wanted to be in this field tonight.”For Styles, that meant a regression of sorts — to his younger, pre-One Direction days when he would sing Shania Twain songs in the car.
And there she was, in the flesh, about an hour into his set, to duet on “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” Twain’s massive 1999 hit.
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