From surprise performances from Zendaya and H.E.R., to family time with the Smiths, this year's iteration of the annual party in the desert was full of can't-miss moments
Coachella’s monumental sense of scale dizzied, delighted and disoriented. The atmosphere glittered with the rarity of a gemstone, a fanfare of aestheticized and commercialized bohemia.
OK, so Timberlake was just 21 when he released his solo debut,
Justified, in 2002, and at 25, the Ramen-noodle-haired star followed it up with
FutureSex/LoveSounds, one of the most infectious pop records of the new millennium that still makes us drop it low (you know, with some assistance) when we hear it. As many Grammys as he s won and as good as the pair of records are because, well, they just are, JT could not have done it without his previous membership in NSYNC. Meanwhile, Duran is on his own shit with no help from boyband fame. But he does have a secret weapon in the support of the Southwest Detroit community.
Kynzi. Kynzi, the soon-to-be 21-year-old Detroit singer whose 2020 single Siren is like if Beyoncé and Evanescence popped into Chloe x Halle s studio, sometimes talks about herself in the third person, and for some reason it s not weird. Like, at all. In fact, it s almost like she s preparing to solidify her standing in what we believe to be imminent diva-dom. I used to feel like she was an alter ego, Kynzi says. She s really more like an extension of everything that I am, but magnified. Confidence, magnified. Sex appeal magnified, like, enchantment everything s up to a hundred. And I feel like, especially as a Black woman, they expect you to tuck your tail between your legs and not make a sound and be seen and not heard. So, actually like [with] Kynzi, it s just a whole bunch of I don t care, I m going to do it how I want to do it, she says. She s extremely glamorous. She s such a diva. But she