Olivia Rodrigo’s opening-night performance of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour — which premiered Friday night in Palm Springs — is going down in the record books, and fans eager to know if their favorites made an appearance on the setlist now have an idea of what to expect while… The tour makes its way across the world. The United States and Europe for the next six months.
For anyone wondering what covers she might perform this time: there aren’t any. All 22 songs in the set come from Rodrigo’s two albums, “Sour” and “Guts” – including one of the exclusive bonus tracks that came with some releases of the latter album: “Obsessed”, which is a particularly welcome item in the set for fans who are Well, obsessed.
Although Rodrigo wore an “I’m Just a Girl” T-shirt for the appearance, “No Doubt” was not included in the show, as it has been at several concerts on her 2022 journey. She clearly feels that the covers she has performed in Her first tour was a kind of hamburger helper to help flesh out a set that was based on a 35-minute sophomore album. But now she had enough original material to fill a 95-minute set, and she was eager to play almost all of it live. In fact, she played all 12 songs on the standard edition of “Guts,” plus the 13th-place bonus track. As for “Sour”, Rodrigo included nine of the 11 songs in the set (omitting only “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” and the sad closer “Hope Ur OK”).
Another difference from the 2022 tour: it featured eight dancers, who sometimes indulged in the choreography seen in the overhead camera scenes, but often disappeared from the stage during the more intimate or rockier songs.
The tour’s production was not very developed by contemporary standards, with Rodrigo’s charisma serving as a special enough influence. But there was one key production scene – a quarter-moon-shaped prop that Rodrigo sat on and sang from as he circled the arena through two numbers, “Makes Sense” and “Enough for You.”
Rodrigo was in an enthusiastic mood at the end of the 95 minutes, descending one of the ramps extending into the GA area to make physical contact with the fans gathered around the ramp for a few minutes after the show ended.
diverse We’ll have a full review of opening night, along with photos from the show, on Saturday.
Speculation about the content of the set was a trending topic on X (formerly Twitter) throughout the day leading up to the performance, reflecting the Guts Tour’s status as one of 2024’s hottest tickets.
Rodrigo opened the tour Friday night in the same region of the country where she will conclude the tour: in her native Southern California. Friday’s show was at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, a venue that many California concertgoers are still encountering for the first time, since it opened just 14 months ago and many Los Angeles music fans had not yet made the trip to the desert to check it out. that. One of the most modern large-scale facility in the region. The tour will return and conclude with four shows at the Kia Forum from August 14-17.
Chappell Roan was the opening act on Friday night, where she will be on all of Rodrigo’s tour dates through April 2, at which point the Breeders will take over for a few dates, followed by Remi Wolf and PinkPantheress.
Here’s the full lineup for Rodrigo’s opening night at Acrisure Arena:
Bad idea, right?
Homeschool girl song
blood sucker
traitor
driver’s license
Teenage dream
Beautiful is not beautiful
Love is embarrassing
Bed-making
Logical
Enough for you
Lassie
Jealousy, jealousy
more happy
Favorite crime
deja vu
Hatred
harsh
obsessed
All American bitch
Good 4 st
Take it back!