Coachella 2025: Everything we overheard in the crowds during Weekend 1

The first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival sold out, drawing an estimated 125,000 people to the Empire Polo Club in Indio. There were often lines of fans to order food, use the bathrooms, get in and out of the festivals, and, of course, the clusters in between crowds trying to catch the best sets.

Here’s everything we overheard from fans during the weekend one of Coachella.

Backstage at DoLab: “Hey, you want to go in the crowd?” “Yes, let me chug these two beers real quick.” “Wait, why? “I don’t want to hold two beers while dancing, that’s why.”

Friends lying on grass by the Mojave stage: “Do you want to see Missy Elliott?” “I’m going to be so for real with you right now and say I have no clue who she is.”

Other guy in the distance: “Yo! What’s up?! You have a problem, Yo Gabba Gabba?”

Girl one walking out of the festival at the Yellow Path: “What do you think of  ‘My anemic girls get it ‘ for the caption.”

Girl’s friend (possibly anemic): “Nooo, not that one, and I don’t get it!”

Guy before Charli XCX set: “So I show up with a cowboy hat and my butt hanging out…”

Friend: “Yes, of course.”

Security guard by Travis Scott installation: “There was a nice lady dancing last year and she slipped on sunscreen, I ran up and her bone was popping out of her leg. The next day she rolled into the festival on a scooter with her leg in a boot.”

In line at the bar near the Coachella Mainstage: “I sent her a pic of my RV and all she said when she replied was, ‘COACHELLA has dark energy”

A fan at Charli XCX’s set: “Make sure it’s .5” when asking a friend to take a photo.”

Security personnel heckling attendees as they walk toward the entrance on Day 3: “You look like you’ve been walking for 5 hours…what is that? Is that a hangover walk?”

Somewhere in the crowd of the Viagra Boys’ performance at Gobi tent: “After the set, let’s drink some adrenochrome.”