- Courtesy of Paul McCartney’s Facebook page
- This guy is headlining Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza announced its lineup at 6 AM today, and the biggest name on the bill is also its oldest: Paul McCartney. The Beatle headlines the three-day Grant Park festival alongside Metallica, Florence + the Machine, Sam Smith, Bassnectar, and the Weeknd. It’s a far more perplexing list than the tame, underwhelming collection of acts rounded up to close out each night of the megafest last year, but the uneven distribution of talent rests heavily on the two names at the top of the bill. If you subscribe to the idea that millennials are generally clueless about McCartney after the #whoispaulmccartney trend story that followed his first collaboration with Kanye West (“Only One”), then the former’s place as the king of the lineup of a fest that skews young is a head-scratcher. But since two of the other biggest music festivals in the U.S. feature acts that appeal to a significantly older crowd than one might expect to see at these kinds of summer jamborees—Steely Dan is set to play Coachella, Billy Joel headlines Bonnaroo—Lollapalooza could be perceived to be staying on top of a trend.
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