BIEBERCHELLA

The girls discuss Coachella lore, lake life and the time they met Justin Bieber! 

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Welcome back to Sisters on the Scene.

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I'm Bad Mad and I'm Hollywood Hill. And this is the official Biebercella episode. If you have been living under a rock socialites, there's no way that's possible. This is weekend one of Coachella, baby. Oh, sorry, Biebercella. Yes, we're referring to it as Biebercella because Justin Bieber is headlining this year. Now that it's actually here, I am feeling a little FOMO that we are not gonna be there this weekend. What do you think, sister? I've got a little FOMO too. I will admit though, this is the most excited I've been about a Coachella lineup in a while. I will second that. For those of you that don't know, Coachella is a huge music festival that is held out here in California in Indio Valley, which is about, what would you say, hill? Four hours? About four? Yeah, four hours outside of LA. It is a three-day music festival. It is EDM heavy. It is very artistic. It's now very expensive. We'll get into all that. It's always been expensive. I guess the first one was in 1999. Has it been around that long? People fly in from around the world to experience these headliners. I'm gonna take it back to 2017. I was a mere senior in college at OU. Hillary, where were you in the world? I was in Aruba. So you were living your best life. And I was graduated at this point, so I was living in Pittsburgh. I had a friend approach me and say, hey, I'm going to Coachella. Do you wanna come too? I did pay for my ticket, which back then I wanna say it was like $600. It was expensive. I had to buy my flight out to the West Coast, the Coachella ticket. This person had connections. Major key. I do think the major key to Coachella, you gotta go with connection. We were in a good spot because she had friends who had a house that was a few blocks from where the festival was. That is so ideal. You could not have a better location. The house was beautiful. We had our own room, it had a pool. We were driven to and from the festival, but we also had a vehicle that we camped with. So we had a camping spot. That's interesting. We didn't sleep there, but we could pre-game there. You can buy camping spots where you actually do sleep under the stars. Are those expensive? I think. It's an additional fee for sure. So it's an additional fee to stay overnight on these grounds. Yes. In the middle of the desert. Middle of the desert. So if you're into that, I can see where that may be appealing. I am not. I'm not about that life. So I really don't know. I have to say, I'm not about that life either. So the fact we had the option to go to the house and get ready and get dressed and all that jazz, that was amazing. So clutch. You can kind of pick your own adventure on how you want to experience Coachella, but that's a good way to put that. I feel like I have to shout out someone that was in my group. Travis Colbert. Freeman, the man. Travis has gone on to become a huge videographer in Hollywood. We're so proud of him. And I remember that first Coachella, you know, this was before any of us had graduated college, and he was talking about how his dream would be to shoot for artists, like well-known artists, and now he has accomplished that dream. I will say too, when you and your group attended, this was, in my opinion, the height of Coachella. This was when it was at its prime. It was like this shiny wonderland. You don't really know a lot about it, but you know it's awesome. And I think you went at the heyday. I would say too, because Instagram wasn't that big at the time. So there was not this pressure to have your cell phone out every second. There wasn't even pressure to have eyebrows colored on. I look at my old pictures and I'm like, no eyebrows in sight. Our outfits did eat though when I look back at pictures. I mean, efforts. Effortless though. This was 10 years ago, right? It was a completely different, it was an effortless vibe. I gotta bring up the lineup of who I saw. Socialites. I don't know if there's ever been a lineup this good and just strong. And I feel like in the moment I didn't even realize how iconic it was. So Friday's always kind of the warm-up. For my Friday, names that stand out: Travis Scott. Okay. Mac Miller. Stal. We are big Mac Miller fans. Saturday of 2017. Headliner Lady Gaga. That was Gaga's year? Lady Gaga in the desert at like midnight. It was amazing. I forgot that was your year. So that's already starting out with a bang. Okay. And then earlier in the day, Tori Lane's, which I remember his set. This was pre-jail, pre-controversy, pre-prison. He was new on the scene. Gucci main, brrr. DJ Snake, Martin Garrett, Future, which he surprised the crowd and brought out Drake. I do remember that. That was 2017. That was insane. And it was so unexpected. The crowd went wild. I can't even imagine. And also that lineup itself could be an entire festival. So the fact that that was one day. One day. They're just not doing it like that anymore. It was a different time. It was a different time because then on Sunday, DJ Khaled. Banger Key! Did I not just say that? Hans Zimmer. Okay. Not our guy. Put some respect on Hans name. I don't think we were old enough to appreciate him, but he is our favorite composer. We've gone to a Hans Zimmer candlelit orchestra here in Los Angeles. We love him. But it wasn't the real Hans. This is this was the real Hans. I have no words. I don't have any words, and I don't have any memory of it, which is even more sad. So one thing you maybe would want to remember because we're going to another concert of his. We need to fly to Europe and go to another concert of his. Love you, Hans. Headliner for Sunday night was Kendrick Lamar. I just don't think it's getting better than that. So that is what I mean, socialites, when I say Madeline went in the heyday, because although we have a great lineup this year, that just does not compare. So that was my experience. I'm so glad I went. Hill, let the socialites know what the lineup is for this year, 2026, baby. Okay, let me pull this up. A big headliner for Friday, Miss Sabrina Carpenter. I mean, that's a big, that's a big honor for her. I don't know if you remember this, but Sabrina actually opened for different portions of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. That's so she's done Eras Tour and now headlining Coachella. Yeah, I think that's when she really popped off. Moving on to Saturday. Okay, Saturday. Arguably the biggest day. That is our boy Biebs. Justin Bieber is the headliner for Saturday. And his set actually starts at 11:25 at night. So he's the late time slot, which everyone waits all day in anticipation for that Saturday night time slot. I think too the cool thing about Coachella is it's very subjective because different people care about different artists. That's why it's so attractive to so many people. Totally. And honestly, there's not a bad artist on the list. So looking at Sunday, Carol G is our big headliner for Carol. Carol G! That's such an honor. Love that. I'm going to be honest, I don't recognize a majority of these names. I mean, what a difference from 2017. I think overall the fans and everyone attending are the most excited about Justin Bieber just because we haven't gotten much from him. We were so lucky to get an album. This is major. I think he's probably our favorite male artist. I mean, we even love his Christmas album. Oh. Nothing touches that Christmas album. You pop that baby on the first of December and you immediately get in the Christmas spirit. Hit after hit. I remember we had that CD in our car. He's been in hiding the past several years. He has not gone on tour since the purpose tour or performed live. We can't count the Grammys because that just happened. We are not counting that underwear clad performance. Mom and Dad texted me because you were there, actually physically there seeing it. I was in bed watching, and mom and dad are like, Is that the beebs in his underwear? Like they were so confused. I'm like, mom and dad, he's just channeling his inner zen. Okay, just go with it. He does what he wants. He does what he wants. And I think that was part of that performance at the Grammys in to show everyone, you can't control me. I'm gonna do what I want, I'm gonna wear what I want. And he clocked that T. He's definitely pretty serious about people not controlling him. Girls are planning their Coachella outfits around different Bieber eras. What would you do? Something purple and I definitely associate him with purple. Well, we're going to be rocking our pajamas in the theater room. Live streaming these performances. If you didn't know, you can live stream Justin Bieber's performance on YouTube this Saturday. We'll be there. 1125. We will be there. Maybe we can stay up that night. That's exactly right. It's a little past our bedtime. We may have to pull out our purpose tour t-shirts. We may throw on a purpose tour t-shirt. We went to the purpose tour in Pittsburgh. It was such an amazing show. I remember it like it was yesterday. We have gotten to see him perform live. You just saw him at the Grammys. This is also so random. We've met Justin. And not in Hollywood. No! It's a little unbelievable. I mean, us and the Beebs go way back in the most unexpected way. So take us back, Hill. We met Justin up at the lake. Which sounds unbelievable because the lake is in the middle of nowhere and isn't well known. We're not talking about Lake Erie people. Justin was at a random lake in the Midwest because his amazing photographer-videographer, Rory, has a place on the lake. He shot a lot of different celebrities and performers, and he's been with Justin for years. And then blessed us all by having him up. The story gets crazier and crazier. We met Rory after he had moved to LA. So we didn't know him when he was younger, but we got introduced through mutuals at the lake. And I remember our first time meeting him was one of the infamous Fourth of July island parties. Rory looked identical to Spicoli and he was walking around. He had spray painted his arm blue for 4th of July. American flag blue. And we were just like, who is this guy? He had major aura. Who is this cat? Lake Life baby. Lake Life hashtag Lake Life if you want more insight. Rory did a Lake Life series on his YouTube channel that is still up. So if you want to check out the Lake Life lore, go check out Rory's YouTube channel. Pill, why don't you tell the socialites how you first laid eyes on the beebs? This is a little bit crazy, but I happened to just go to our local pizza and ice cream spot to pay for dinner. You have to go into that a little bit though. That's our favorite spot. Well, there's not many places to go up there because it really is in the middle of nowhere. So food options ordering out are extremely limited, and this place rocks. This place could rival any in the Midwest. The pizza is so good. The ice cream, the hot fudge Sunday would be. Don't even get me started. So I roll up, I'm picking up dinner that mom and dad ordered. Multiple pizzas after a long day out in the sun on the boat, you know. Water skiing and hanging out, an exhausting day. Is anything better than pizza at the end of a day like that? No. Seriously. So I'm walking up and I see a mob of people. A mob. Which that's rare for the lake. There's not that many people up there anyway. So to see a mob, it's unheard of. True. And so I get closer, I'm peering around, trying to figure out what the heck's going on. Who is in the middle of this group? Justin himself. That's crazy. You had to have just been like, what is happening? It was divine timing. And it was my birthday. That is even crazier. Yeah. Which he did wish me happy birthday before jumping in an American flag painted car and jetting away as fast as possible. Absolutely iconic, which that is Rory's old American flag car. Convertible. I mean, that car was just everything. R.I.P., I don't think it's around anymore. No, R.I.P., but what a memory. We had things like this happening in the little old Midwest when we were not in LA yet. We have always been celebrity adjacent. We're gonna have to roll out some of those stories. Who meets Justin Bieber in the middle of nowhere? And that was honestly too, I feel like one of our earliest interactions with a celebrity. I remember that night listening to the radio and the radio announcers were talking about it. Because people could not believe that Justin Bieber was in the area. One thing we know about Biebs, he loves his privacy. So the fact that he could just go and unwind at such a magical place, the lake life. We've met so many amazing friends at the lake. The lake means everything to us. Like you said, divine timing. It makes for a great story, I'll say that. We didn't even bring up the fact that we worked Coachella a couple years ago. We spent the weekend golf carting around celebrities, attending these festivals, attending parties. I mean, it was insane. It was really fun. Oh man, it is so dusty and ever underestimate how cold the desert can get at night. It's a little bit shocking if you haven't been, but overnight is basically frigid, and then the day is so hot. What would be your best advice to socialites attending Coachella outfit-wise? You need some warm things to sleep in for sure. It reminds me of us going to the bars at OU where we would be in dresses, and it's like, do we bring the coat? Do we not? The coat's never coming. We never brought the coat. If you're sleeping outside and camping, you definitely need something. I think, too, a really good in-between. This is so Midwest of me, but I would say a jean jacket. I think a jean jacket would work. It'd have to have like tassels or diamonds on it or something. Get just, yeah. Okay. Get a cool one. My least favorite part of Coachella by far is what they have deemed Coachella cough. So basically, everyone that attends the festival breathes in dust the entire weekend. And so people get pretty sick afterwards. I did suffer from a bad bout of Coachella cough when I came back. You did, and you even wore a bandana, because that's the move is you wear bandanas over half your face to cover, especially when it gets windy. I think on that note, we have to get into our fame of the week. We absolutely do, sister. Take it away. What's our fame? My fame of the week goes to the 405 baby because nobody will be on it this weekend. Period! We could get to LAX in 10 minutes. Be so serious. No, it's kind of an ongoing joke to those of us that live in LA. All the spots that normally have lines, community goods. Yeah, there's no lines. There's a really cute cafe spot called Community Goods, and the line will literally be around the block, and so it's kind of a joke. Go to community goods. Okay, but this does have me worry. I mean, I love that we're giving our fame to the 405. I think you know what I'm gonna say. You're going to say that the Olympics are going to ruin our life. That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm a little concerned about the Olympics, you guys. I don't know logistically how that's even going to be possible. How do we have the infrastructure to support all the people that would be coming in? How will we get to work? Doesn't sound like a now problem. I'm not gonna stress about it. I don't even want to think about that right now. And let's just say, for example, you wanted to go to Coachella last minute. Let's say our little hearts couldn't take all of the Bieber content and we just had to get there on Saturday. Relatable. Not possible. Because you know what? These Airbnbs are hiking up the prices astronomically. Sister, I don't think the social lights will believe what some of these Airbnbs are actually going for. It is all over TikTok. It gets even worse. So they're already hiking prices of Airbnbs to thousands of dollars a night. One Airbnb was listed for $230,000 for four days. I don't know what to say to that. Every single Airbnb is doing it. You know, the minimum I think you could get was $10,000 to $20,000 for two days. And it gets even worse. So How could it get worse? That is shameful in general, because they know exactly what they're doing. But taking it a step further, people who have had their Airbnb booked the past six months, paid, you know, all set to go for the weekend. The Airbnbs were canceling their reservation last week, saying that they sold the Airbnb and then relisting it for three to four times the price. Airbnb, shame on you, because how is that not illegal? And there's nothing in the policy somehow that protects these people. That's what everyone was saying on TikTok. And then what do you do if you're flying across the country, you don't have friends, you have nowhere you can go, you'd have to camp. You would be forced to camp, which would be my nightmare. That just seems so illegal that these people aren't protected. That is not okay. No, that is not okay. And that is so shameful and so greedy. I shouldn't have to choose between a weekend at Coachella and a mortgage. I mean, the stakes are high, sister. Decisions must be made. What's our lame of the week, Hill? Our lame of the week is everyone that keeps leaking the alleged Justin Bieber set list. Oh, you are so right for this one. He's such a private person. He's definitely wanting to keep this set list under wrap. Sister, what do you mean leaking the alleged set list? How would anyone know that? The neighbors know. There's no way. The neighbors know. The neighbors at Coachella? People in the area, okay, have been leaking Justin's alleged set list. They're doing drive-bys and hanging out to see the songs he's practicing. On his sound check? On his sound check. This is the problem with an outdoor venue. Justin is always getting his privacy invaded, which granted, this is sound, so it's not. I'm sure it's not malicious. Just knowing him, and he is so private, there's no way he wants the set list out there. I feel like this is gonna irk him. Me too. He could swap all the songs, which I actually am excited about. There's some good ones on this list. What are the alleged songs? Now I have to know. Some of the best of the best Justin hits. So we're talking sorry. What? Baby. Oh my gosh. One less lonely girl. There's no way. Favorite girl. Oh my god. Beauty and a bee. We're gonna be stuck with yummy over and over again. That is my least favorite Justin song. You will go on the record for that. I will go on the record and say that. So what I'm afraid is that he's going to scrap all these really exciting songs. Now I'm worried because he did tell the press that he was gonna be doing swag one and two, his most recent album that he released last summer. Which, okay, that was the soundtrack of my life this past summer when I was recovering. Loved it. Nothing wrong with those songs. You know, they were catchy. But you cannot beat the OG, sorry, no baby, one less lonely girl. Those songs raised us. They really did. That to me is just synonymous with a good time growing up, high school, college. You cannot beat old Justin. It's a little lame. The songs have allegedly been leaked. So we'll see what he comes up with. We'll see what ends up happening, but I mean, in Justin fashion, he could just say, you know what? They lost the privilege of hearing me sing sorry. Justin, if you're listening to this, stick with the alleged set list. We're begging. I think this leads us potentially to our next segment. Sister says hotels have always been preferred to Airbnb's. Agree. I was a little bit on board in the beginning when the prices were dirt cheap. Dirt cheap and the romantic idea of we could rent a really cool house. So everybody's together. Things used to be stocked. Chores used to be minimal. That has all changed. What's been happening now? Sister, they are treating me like Cinderella. I am dead serious. You are expected to sweep. You're expected to take out the trash. All dishes need to be done. Strip your bed and do the laundry. I mean, at this point, what's the cleaning fee for? And they're still charging the cleaning fee, right? I don't know. A hotel would never. I feel like a good Airbnb host is now few and far between. And at this point, let's just go back to hotels full time. At least they bring me fresh towels whenever I ask. I fear Airbnb has lost the plot. There are a few diamonds in the rough. I mean, the Airbnb we just stayed at in the Redwoods was top-notch, one of the best Airbnbs we've ever stayed in. I think that was the most accommodating and beautiful Airbnb we'd ever stayed in. And guess what? We left amazing reviews. He did such an outstanding job, but that I feel like is rare now. Speaking of the Redwoods and Coachella in general and being out in nature, I just have to get something off my chest. What? Sister says camping is never fun. Sister! I mean, I need luxury, I need AC, I need running water for God's sake. I mean, there's two types of people in the world: people who camp, people who don't camp. People that are okay sharing their sleeping bag with bugs, and people that are not okay with bugs. Exactly. Do I love being out in nature in the fresh air? And, you know, we grew up playing in the woods. However, I like to pack it up and get to my luxury cabin so I can relax in a hot tub and take a shower at the end of the night. I mean, my love for the outdoors is very conditional, you may say. Sister, that is a major difference of ours. I do feel like I'm Camp Curious. You are definitely Camp Curious. I'm here to defend the camping community. There's a certain je ne sais quoi about waking up with a waterfall, the nature around you, but where you do lose me is the no running water. That makes me a little twitchy. But Camp Curious, what does that mean to you? I maybe would be willing to try if the opportunity was just amazing. Meaning, sleeping under the stars of the Tetons, sign me up. Camping at Coachella, no. Okay, I do get that. And I do feel like I have to give props to people who do camp and are into that. We've been in very rustic cabins that had minimal running water, things like that, but actually. Being out there on the ground. Are you referring to outdoor school? Dad definitely can rough it, but I don't think anyone in our immediate family has actually camped. I do think it depends on what you grew up with because we went to the lake and what you're willing to tolerate. And going back to the lake and socializes, you would be surprised to learn that we do know how to bait a fishing hook. Never let the shiny silver part show where the fish are not coming up. Our grandfather Papa taught us that. He was the fishing king of the lake. We have no qualms about swimming in freshwater. A lake doesn't bother us. The fish don't bother us. Even more surprising, the frogs don't bother us. We used to be obsessed with frogs and catching turtles. Socialites, we've even caught snakes before. We would build sand castles on the beach and we would release them back into the marsh at the end of the day. But can you even imagine Bad Mad and I handling these giant bullfrogs, snakes, a turtle here and there? Because once in a while would have to move a turtle off a road. I think that takes us into our wildlife win of the week. It does. Petsmart will no longer be selling turtles or tortoises. There's no way. Yeah, that is such a win. This is such a big deal because reptiles are notoriously difficult to care for. So I'm definitely really excited to see Petsmart taking this stance. It honestly depresses me going into pet shops now. You know this, I've said this. It depresses you too. Because there's just so many reptiles and birds and fish that just don't have the proper care. And honestly, that also makes me think of the hamsters that are also hamsters and guinea pigs, which we had both. We took our duties very seriously. I went as far as to make a PowerPoint for mom and dad. I remember on why they should let me get a hamster that one Christmas. I think I was like 11. Socialites. Madeline's hamster Timmy lived so long. Yeah. We took him into the vet because he'd been acting a little lethargic, and I remember what the vet said to you. The vet was like, this is one iconic that you brought him in a purse, and I literally brought him in this huge purse with fluff. I used to put stuffing in his cage so that he could burrow into it. He loved it. Took some of his fluff and allowed him to sit in it because yeah, he was definitely not feeling himself, and she was like, It's actually really rare a hamster would live to be six. So she's like, honestly, I just think it's old age. Most people's hamsters don't even make it to one. So the fact that Madeline's hamster made it past six. Timmy, my little sweetie. He was a gray teddy bear hamster. So cute. I think that's all we have time for, social lights. It is. We hope everyone has an amazing, amazing Friday and weekend. Happy Biebercella.

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