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The Year of Our Lord(e)

There's no coincidence Lorde played Coachella on Easter Sunday.

Leave it to Lorde to troll Coachella. In the minutes before the pop wunderkind made her long-awaited return to the festival—and her debut on its main stage—the lights went dark, and the tumbling drum intro to Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" echoed from the speaker stacks.

Bush, of course, was something of a sensitive subject at the festival, following a recent profile on festival founder Paul Tollett, in which he says he passed on the chance to book the elusive UK pop great. Though Tollett has since refuted those claims, saying they were taken out of context, it was enough to draw the ire of the music internet and spawn some light gossip among fest attendees.

Back at the main stage Sunday night, the song's first minute saw the din of the crowd shift from excited to hushed to abuzz with confusion as Bush's vocals—which, to many of the crowd's unacquainted ears, could be confused with Lorde—beckoned on.

People came running. Some audibly gasped, thinking, in true Coachella style, Bush herself would be the big surprise of the night. Others thought Lorde was doing a cover. Still others wondered aloud what this even was. Whatever you thought at that the moment, this 20-year-old born Ella Yelich-O'Connor had Coachella eating out of her hand—and she hadn't even stepped on stage yet.

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