{"id":290776,"date":"2020-04-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1139235"},"modified":"2020-04-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T14:00:00","slug":"revisiting-bleachella-the-one-time-taylor-swift-went-to-coachella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/revisiting-bleachella-the-one-time-taylor-swift-went-to-coachella\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Bleachella: The One Time Taylor Swift Went to Coachella"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.53187250996\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.804780876494\">\n<p>Swifties, can you believe it&#8217;s been four years since #Bleachella?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it was April 2016 when <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/strong> attended&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/coachella\">Coachella<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for the very first time. While&nbsp;at the music festival in Indio, Calif., T.Swit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/757327\/taylor-swift-and-her-bleached-blond-hair-take-on-coachella-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showed off her bleached blonde hair<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/e_news\/news\/756823\/taylor-swift-is-almost-unrecognizable-on-the-cover-of-vogue-see-photos-find-out-what-she-said-about-calvin-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she had recently debuted<\/a> on the cover of <em>Vogue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When the then-26-year-old arrived in the desert, she posted an iconic photo to Instagram of herself with her bright hair, red lipstick and chic sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BLEACHELLA,&#8221; the Grammy winner declared in the caption of the picture, which also showed her wearing a jacket with a lightning bolt on it. The jacket was a reference to Swift&#8217;s then-boyfriend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/calvin_harris\">Calvin Harris<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; song with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;This Is What You Came For.&#8221; As fans later learned, Swift actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/780841\/taylor-swift-breaks-up-with-her-musical-pseudonym-nils-sjoberg-for-calvin-harris-song-this-is-what-you-came-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">played a major role in the song<\/a>, co-writing it under her&nbsp;pseudonym,&nbsp;<strong>Nils Sjoberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Coachella weekend, Swift was spotted posing for photos with friends and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/757953\/taylor-swift-reaches-out-longingly-for-calvin-harris-during-coachella-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attending Harris&#8217; headlining set<\/a>, during which Rihanna was a surprise performer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Though <em>much<\/em> has changed since this time, Swift has referenced this Bleachella era in her music over the years.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.057279236277\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016317\/rs_634x1024-160417073451-634.taylor-swift.cm.41716.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Taylor Swift, Coachella\" alt=\"Taylor Swift, Coachella\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Roger\/AKM-GSI<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.23950617284\">\n<p>In fact, it was later on during this era that Swift first met her longtime love,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/joe_alwyn\">Joe Alwyn<\/a><\/strong>. As fans will know, in Swift&#8217;s song &#8220;Dress,&#8221; she looks back on her bleached hair days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flashback when you met me\/Your buzzcut and my hair bleached,&#8221; Swift sings on the track. &#8220;Even in my worst times, you could see the best of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The couple is rumored to have first met at the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2016_met_gala\">2016 Met Gala<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in May of that year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31.650165016502\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.042904290429\">\n<p>This weekend was supposed to kick off the&nbsp;<strong>2020 Coachella<\/strong>&nbsp;season, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129904\/coachella-and-stagecoach-2020-music-festivals-officially-postponed-due-to-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans have been postponed<\/a>&nbsp;until October.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, you can check out some of the most memorable moments from Coachella over the years&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1138855\/here-s-how-to-watch-all-your-favorite-coachella-performances-right-from-your-couch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s hoping we get more T.Swift moments at the music festival in the years to come!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1139235\/revisiting-bleachella-the-one-time-taylor-swift-went-to-coachella?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swifties, can you believe it&#8217;s been four years since #Bleachella? That&#8217;s right, it was April 2016 when Taylor Swift attended&nbsp;Coachella&nbsp;for the very first time. While&nbsp;at the music festival in Indio, Calif., T.Swit showed off her bleached blonde hair, which she had recently debuted on the cover of Vogue. When the then-26-year-old arrived in the desert, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 00:29:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}