Coachella 2022 – LIVE: All the updates from the California Music Festival as day two begins

Harry Styles hasn’t forgotten his roots, treating the audience with a very high-energy version of One Direction’s “That What Makes You Beautiful” before Shania Twain joins him in “Man I Feel Like A Woman.”

Yes really. A full review to follow.

Baby Kim, 21, arrived at the Sahara Theater in Coachella late Friday night, after winning a Grammy for Best Rap Performance for “Family Ties” — a collaboration with his cousin Kendrick Lamar.

While the festival’s rumor mill suggested that Lamar might join his cousin on stage, his burgeoning group is finally working to prove that the Las Vegas-based artist doesn’t need to rely on patronage.

His collection, largely but not only from the 2021 album blue melodyalternating between relaxed and snarling fight songs.

For the former, there are the “Brands USA” bounce, which prompted Kim to declare “It’s a great party tonight?” Orange soda.

For the latter, there are the aptly named “rioters,” the relentless “moshpit” that lives up to its name, and the powerful Kanye collab, “thank God.”

In the end, the only collaborator Kim welcomes on stage is Maryland-born singer Brent Fayaz, who comes to sing “Lost Souls.”

The truth is that he doesn’t need anyone else. A triumphant definitive version of “Family Ties” proves he’s a star on his own terms.