aespa’s achievements as a 4th Generation K-Pop Girl Group sees no end in sight; not only are they one of the most awarded K-Pop groups of their generation, and now they are the first K-Pop group to have been formally invited to headline the main stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s second weekend.
This confirmation comes after the immensely popular girl group’s activities in the U.S. have been the topic of discussion by fans on social media. Some have been speculating aespa’s attendance in the famous music festival thanks to their Instagram stories about flying to California, what to eat in L.A., what to bring, and what the weather would be like.
SM Entertainment’s meta-verse girl group was confirmed to perform their hits “Black Mamba”, “Next Level”, “Savage”, and a new unreleased song. Technically, aespa isn’t the first K-Pop girl group to perform at Coachella, following BLACKPINK in 2019 at the Sahara Stage and 2NE1 at the “Head in the Clouds” set earlier this week. But, they are the first K-Pop group to perform on the music festival’s main stage.
With aespa joining the likes of GOT7’s Jackson, Epik High, BIBI, and the surprise reunion of 2NE1, Coachella is looking more and more like a K-Pop festival lowkey. MYs couldn’t obviously their excitement at the news of aespa’s upcoming stage later this week, and the TLs have been filled with Tweets and memes about the girl group’s appearance at Coachella.
aespa spotted arriving at coachella pic.twitter.com/eoFAUrLPOw
— coco (@giselleskr) April 18, 2022
aespa be like: pic.twitter.com/TU8nb1uHQM
— heidi (@fleurencity) April 19, 2022
first BLACKPINK
then 2NE1
now AESPA pic.twitter.com/o5YPrfLZoh— 니코니 (@thinkingwinter) April 19, 2022
aespa explaining to the audience what “kwangya” means after performing: pic.twitter.com/pibYhijL7W
— 𝒌𝒖𝒎𝒊 ˃̵͈̑ᴗ˂̵͈̑ (@aerinoglossy) April 19, 2022
aespa is literally the most awarded girl group of the 4th generation and second overall, now they’re being invited to the main stage of coachella.. anyone denying or downplaying their success is straight up lying because there’s no way they’re not leading this generation
— ashari ◡̈ (@karinasprint) April 19, 2022
aespa took the best shortcut
AESPA AT COACHELLA#aespa #Coachella @aespa_official pic.twitter.com/VhFPPsjT3U
— ً (@yizhae) April 19, 2022
aespa really skip a lot of episodes in their career, imagine having a daesang, pak, cak and rak, ultimate rookie grandslam, visionary award, performing at macy’s thanksgiving parade and now performing at coachella on the main stage and did all of that being only a year old group
— rain ♡ AESPA AT COACHELLA (@rainterjeong) April 19, 2022
aenergy as intro for aespa’s entrance at coachella would be so cool
— not winter (@wntrsgf) April 19, 2022
First 4th gen group to achieve RAK
First 4th gen group to achieve CAK
First 4th gen group to achieve PAK
First 4th gen girl group to receive Daesang
First 4th gen group to perform at CoachellaAespa is literally on the next level ✨
— ᴛɪɴᴀ | ᴇxᴀᴍ ᴡᴇᴇᴋ (@yujikatarina) April 19, 2022
the way aespa skipped music show wins and went straight to bagging awards and daesangs, also skipped their first concert tours and went straight to coachella the biggest music festival in the world
— jan (@aescentre) April 19, 2022
aespa at coachella means ningning shall go viral again pic.twitter.com/9I2wcLpLgx
— eden (@96kchs) April 19, 2022
Whether you like it or not, coachella is the biggest music festival & thousands of people attend. It is a great exposure for aespa. This is a major opportunity to reach some new audiences. SM is smart, aespa is gonna bring so much attention internationally on their next comeback
— Karinapril (@ujiminphoria) April 19, 2022
Yup, aespa are that big now. MYs and the entirety of K-Pop fans on Twitter are just on the edge of their seats just waiting for April 23rd (U.S. time; April 24th for Asia) to come, and for aespa to slay the stage as always.
(Hi SM Entertainment, please let aespa have “aenergy” as their intro song at Coachella)
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