BINI heard you like confidence, and on Saturday, April 18 (Philippine time), the P-pop girl group turned up to the Mojave Stage with more of it after their Coachella debut last week. The crowd was also louder this time around, making for a fulfilling closer to the group’s Coachella 2026 run.
Except for the opener, BINI performed the same setlist this weekend. Instead of last week’s “Shagidi,” the eight-piece opened with the 2022 song “Strings.” The girls also ditched the softer blue two-piece costumes for edgier metallic pink outfits. But even without these changes, the bigger energy this weekend would have already distinguished it from the first weekend’s performance. Where last week felt like the girls feeling out a new audience, BINI came around this time with renewed aplomb and trust in what they were doing.
The set, just like last week, was sprinkled with fiery dance breaks and an energy check that had the whole tent going “Eyyyy!” In the final chorus of the second song, “Out of My Head,” the crowd jumps to the beat, reciprocating the girls’ energy with raised hands.
But it’s after the last song, “Pantropiko,” that the gravity of BINI’s Coachella run really sets in. When the girls say “Mabuhay ang musikang Pilipino” to an audience of Filipinos and foreigners, Philippine flags raised from the front to the back of the crowd, one cannot help but be filled with a sense of pride for the country whose music has finally made a significant impression on the world stage — and for the women who made it happen.
