Hours before singer’s headlining set Saturday, Brooklyn band revisit the 2010 hit single
Hours before Justin Bieber headlined Coachella, Geese covered the singer’s hit “Baby” during the band’s set Saturday.
Making their Coachella debut by performing on the Gobi Stage five hours before Bieber’s main stage gig, Cameron Winter and company delivered a snippet of the 2010 single before weaving “Baby” into their own 3D Country song “2122”:
This wasn’t the first time Geese have covered the My World 2.0 track: The group recorded a studio rendition of “Baby” in 2024, which they uploaded onto their official YouTube page but never officially released:
Bieber himself also revisited “Baby” during his own Coachella headlining set, singing along with the track while he played the music video (his version, not Geese’s) off YouTube.
Rolling Stone wrote of Bieber’s Coachella set, “It was a trial of patience for many fans, especially when — after a sit-in from the Kid Laroi on ‘Stay’ — Bieber brought in a couple of guitarists to share the stage with, playing deep-cut acoustic tracks that led to a mid-set exodus. When Bieber did decide to visit the past, he did it in a way that seemed almost designed to infuriate: by pulling up his old videos and singing along to early-stage bangers like ‘Baby’ and ‘I’m the One.’ The low-fi video was shot nearly 20 years ago at the very beginning of Bieber’s career. The set seemed like it was going to careen into disaster when Bieber pulled up both his own paparazzi fails and other viral videos.”
