The cute, the hot, the freaky: Best of Coachella 2022

Coachella is one of the most well-known music festivals in the world, yet it’s better renowned for its viral moments and Instagrammable antics than for its music.

The following is a list of some of the weekend’s highlights:

– Still the One – Harry Styles had a splashy Coachella debut, performing a slew of songs, debuting new music, and inviting none other than Shania Twain, the adored country singer who controlled the 1990s, to sing along.

Styles launched with his current blockbuster hit “As It Was,” the first song off his forthcoming album “Harry’s House,” in front of a sea of hormone-addled festival-goers in a chest-baring, multi-colored disco ball of a jumpsuit.

“It’s big in here, innit?” the 28-year-old Brit quipped in his sexy-and-I-know-it yet sheepishly relatable air.

The former boy band idol then paid his dues to history by bringing out Twain, a pioneer of country-pop crossover whose seminal album “Come On Over” soundtracked the rides home of many a ’90s kid, including Harry’s.

“In the car with my mother as a child, this lady taught me to sing. She also told me that men are trash,” Styles said to Twain, who’s now 56.

The duo belted out Twain’s smash “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” before sitting down for a soulful duet of “You’re Still The One.”

“I’m a bit starstruck… It’s a bit surreal to sing this song with you,” Twain, wearing a sequined mini dress and go-go boots, told Styles.

Judging by the crowd’s fervor, she wasn’t the only one.

– Women center stage, Latinx pride –

Locks flowing and twerks popping even harder than her bars, Megan made good on her queen of hotties’ crown, getting suggestive with the mic and drawing screams with dance moves miming oral sex.

“Ladies if you love your body make some… noise,” she proclaimed.

Music’s seductive oddball Doja Cat meanwhile brought headbanging, flames, and even the devil in the form of fellow rapper Rico Nasty to her set, putting on a pyrotechnics-heavy show with tantalizing dance moves and rock-heavy versions of even her glossiest hits.

And the Americans who didn’t yet know Brazil’s massive superstar Anitta certainly do now, after the artist — whose smash “Envolver” recently made streaming history — brought trilingual fire and eye-popping dance routines to the festival’s main stage.

Anitta still found time to bring Saweetie and Snoop Dogg onstage despite her several clothing changes, a medley of classics, an ode to home with “A Girl From Rio” — which interpolates the world-famous song “Girl From Ipanema.”

Pabllo Vittar, a fellow Brazilian, made history as the first drag queen to perform at one of music’s largest parties, causing hysteria by throwing her own dance party for a raucous throng.

Karol G, a Colombian singer with mermaid blue hair, later carried Latinx pride to the top of the stage, joyfully playing her own classics for a large multilingual audience.

She then performed a medley commemorating the Latino pioneers, including songs by Selena Gomez, Ricky Martin, Daddy Yankee, Celia Cruz, and Shakira.

– A flex from Danny Elfman –

But while music’s hot girls ruled the weekend it was Danny Elfman who proved Coachella’s sleeper hit.

The 68-year-old best known for film scores delivered a stunning set that paired his 1980s art rock days with a full symphony that rendered some of pop culture’s most iconic soundtracks.

Elfman began his night by vowing “a strange little show” — an understatement if there ever was one.

“Only a Lad,” “Insanity,” “Just Another Day,” and “Dead Man’s Party” are among the songs from his surrealist new wave band Oingo Boingo, which he started in 1979, that the Emmy and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated sexagenarian launched full-throttle into.

Around halfway through, he tore off his shirt and hurled it aside, revealing that he is heavily tatted — and swole.

To break up his avant-garde, guitar-heavy performance, Elfman led his orchestra through four decades of his renowned film and television music, including an unhinged “Nightmare Before Christmas” medley featuring “This Is Halloween.”

He also sang songs from the “Edward Scissorhands” film.

Then there came the primary title for Spider-Man and the Batman theme.

And, of course, The Simpsons.

“Imagine peaking and you wander back to the stage and this happens,” read one tweet over a clip of the trippy Simpsons theme rendition, which featured vocal sound effects from the orchestra members and the classic saxophone solo.

“Who thought the Simpsons theme at Coachella was a joke??? Never underestimate Danny Elfman,” read another viral tweet.a