Slayyyter stepped onto the Coachella stage for the first time Friday night in Indio, California, and used the set to debut every song from her album Worst Girl in America live. The performance marked her first Coachella appearance at the 2026 Coachella music festival and turned a long-held festival wish into a set she said felt like a dream come true.
The singer performed Beat Up Chanels, Dance and Crank, three songs that helped define the show and gave the crowd its first live look at material she released just last month. Slayyyter said she had always wanted to attend Coachella, let alone play it, after seeing photos on Tumblr when she was in high school, and that the night felt very surreal.
What made the set land was not just the songs but how they were presented. Slayyyter said Coachella was the debut of all the tracks from the album in a live setting, and that everything felt incredible on stage. She said the response to the non-single songs surprised her, but the moment that stayed with her most was Crank, when, in her words, the room felt like it was shaking as the audience screamed along.
She also made the outfit herself in the week leading up to the show. Slayyyter said she likes being hands-on with costume design because it feels comfortable and lets her work with the silhouettes and proportions she knows suit her. This one, she said, did not take long; she started it a couple of days before the performance. The look mixed a ruffled chiffon top with lace detailing, denim cut-offs, western accessories and a studded, bedazzled trucker hat that read Worst Girl. She also repainted her boots the night before going onstage, saying the outfit felt like a perfect representation of the album.
There was still room for more. Slayyyter said she had been working on something else for weekend two, and suggested it could include a new song or some new bits in the set. That matters because her first Coachella appearance did more than check a bucket-list box: it introduced Worst Girl in America to a live audience that already seemed to know the words, and it left her with a next move that could make the second weekend feel less like an encore than a reset.