Kendrick Lamar kicked Sweetlife Fest founder off stage; Tove Lo flashed the crowd (SZA almost did) -- pics
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“Billy Idol is going to be on this stage,” Mikaiah [of The Bots] told the crowd during their set. Adding, “Maybe he’ll say hi to me backstage.” And while it never actually played out that way, the brothers did see a whole lot of Tove Lo at her set a few hours later. “Her boobs were the highlight of the day for me,” Mikaiah told Billboard. “She flashed the crowd three or four songs in!” [Billboard]
The Sweetlife Festival went down at Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavillion this past weekend (May 30-31). Day 1 was headlined by Kendrick Lamar, who recently collaborated with festival founders Sweetgreen for the “Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe” salad. Kendrick brought up Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman for “m.A.A.d city” after asking a fan to come on stage and rap with him, but said the only qualification is you have to know every word to “m.A.A.d city.” Jonathan… did not know the words and Kendrick very quickly kicked him off the stage. Instead he brought up another fan named Ayanna who did in fact know every word and was quite the enthusiastic performer too. Video of that is below.
Kendrick also brought out SZA during his set (video of them playing “Poetic Justice” below), and she also played her own set that day too. Her wardrobe at the fest was pretty revealing, but she kept it PG 13-rated, unlike pop singer Tove Lo, who seems to be making it a tradition of flashing her fans during concerts. Video of her doing so at Sweetlife (which you shouldn’t watch at work) is below. As you can see above, The Bots were stoked.
Also on day 1 was Sinkane, and pictures of him, SZA and Kendrick are in this post. The Pixies played that day too. We missed them, but we did just catch them in NYC and NJ. Billy Idol and Lucius played that day too, and pictures of their sets are here.
More Sweetlife day 1 pictures and videos below…
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