Danny Elfman reacts to the internet calling him hot after his Coachella set: 'You know, I’ve tried my whole life to stay in shape, and I guess I’m glad I did now!'
, in more ways than one. Yes, there was the 40-yer-plus, career-encompassing aspect of the setlist, from Oingo Boingo new-wave evergreens to score chestnuts from “Edward Scissorhands” and “Batman”; from his recent orchestral-rock comeback album to a deeply viral concert breakout of his “Simpsons” theme.
I was just relieved to have made it through in one piece. I was joking to a friend before the show, “Look, we have 30 minutes to set up a show that’s never been performed before with 50 musicians on stage. What can possibly go wrong?” And then I’m sitting there before we went on, thinking, “Fuck, man. That was a joke, but it’s no joke.” There were a hundred things to go wrong. But in the end, the one thing that Iwasn’t planning on was a dust storm, an actual sandstorm, in my face.
Your set list was kind of a dream set list for anybody who is a fan of everything you do — from the new album [2021’s “Big Mess”] to the “Simpsons” theme to the “Spider-Man” theme to [Oingo Boingo’s seminal hit] “Only a Lad.” Did it seem all along like it would be OK to cram all those styles into one hour-long show?
To anybody who saw me in the late ‘80s or ‘90s, that’s exactly how they saw me. The only difference is that back in the ‘90s, I would have been barefoot on stage, and they made me wear a pair of shoes at Coachella because with all the acts going on and off, they just didn’t know if there’d be nails in the stage, or splinters. But other than the shoes, I just wanted to come out exactly like if you saw me 30 or 40 years ago, and here I am now. And to not be embarrassed or ashamed by that.
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