{"id":142202,"date":"2026-08-07T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/142202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:52:12","slug":"inside-olivia-rodrigos-intimate-one-night-only-brooklyn-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/142202\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Olivia Rodrigo’s Intimate, One-Night Only Brooklyn Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn one of the sweatiest nights of the summer, the heat did not stop an intimate crowd from jumping along to the angsty bops of Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s new album and joining her in the shared pain of romantic love. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re rocking out, I fucking love you!\u201d Rodrigo yelled from the small stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pop star announced the surprise concert Thursday morning, offering $25 tickets only to fans who arrived to Warsaw, a small Greenpoint, Brooklyn<\/a> venue, in person starting at 10 A.M. The show comes after the June release of Rodrigo\u2019s third studio album,You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,<\/a> and marked the opportunity for Rodrigo to play some of her songs live for the first time and show off her chops ahead of her upcoming Daisy Chain Fields Festival<\/a> in August and global Unraveled Tour.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy evening, the lucky ticket recipients stood shoulder to shoulder in the 1,100-capacity venue that resembles a high school auditorium and also sells pierogis off to the side, in keeping with its origins as a Polish cultural center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 15-song set list included a few old favorites, such as \u201cdriver\u2019s license,\u201d and \u201call-american bitch\u201d as well as many songs from the soul-bearing new album, in which Rodrigo tracks the evolution of a romantic relationship, from the beginning highs to its demise.\u00a0On stage, Rodrigo offered insights into her song-writing process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThank you so much for coming. You waited in line in the heat. This is such a special show. This is the first time I\u2019m playing so many of the songs from my new album live. It\u2019s really, really fun, so thank you so much for joining me. This next song is from my new album. I wrote it in New York and it\u2019s sort of about liking someone so much that you feel completely insane. We\u2019ve all been there right? It\u2019s called \u2018stupid song,\u2019\u201d Rodrigo said after kicking off the show with \u201cdrop dead\u201d and \u201c\u201cu + me = <3\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe cure,\u201d in which Rodrigo comes to the realization that romantic love cannot fix her own internal struggles, is her favorite song from the new album, she said, because it took a long time to find the right words to express herself. \u201cI\u2019m really, really proud of this one.\u201d\u00a0 While the sweet, soft \u201choneybee\u201d was one of the first songs she wrote, inspired by the movie Notting Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe smaller venue made it possible for Rodrigo to lean down and sing inches away from fans in the front row and at one point, grab a fan\u2019s phone to record herself <\/a>singing straight to camera. This intimacy also helped showcase Rodrigo\u2019s powerful, clear voice as she alternated between belting and bopping on stage to her alt-rock anthems and taking quieter solo moments at the piano, as when she played the Guts deep-cut \u201cmaking the bed,\u201d which she said she had been thinking about lately.<\/p>\n

\n\tToward the end of the show, Rodrigo stood alone on the bare stage, framed only by a spotlight and gripping the mic stand as she crooned the ballad \u201cless.\u201d As the song ended, she grabbed a tissue and wiped what appeared to be tears from her face, before suddenly breaking away from that emotion and yelling \u201cKey change!\u201d as she launched into the upbeat hit \u201cexpectations\u201d and began jumping around on stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor that number, Rodrigo employed her biggest crowd work yet, as she asked the men in the crowd (admittedly fewer in number) to sing the rhythmic \u201cShe\u2019s got big expectations\u201d in as low of a voice as possible, before calling on the women, many of whom came dressed in Rodrigo\u2019s signature babydoll dress, to sing their own mantra, \u201cI\u2019ve got real big expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAbove the crowd, in the VIP section,The Summer I Turned Pretty star Lola Tung beamed and rocked out to the setlist, standing with author and creator of the franchise Jenny Han. Several of Rodrigo\u2019s songs are featured in the series, including \u201clacy\u201d from her 2023 album Guts. Rodrigo has credited the series for helping that song take off.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs usual, Rodrigo also offered the crowd an opportunity to let go of some of their anger, as in at the end of \u201cgood 4 u,\u201d when she asked fans to scream as loud as they could, resulting in an ear-splitting sound distortion. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat pisses you off? There\u2019s a lot to choose from!,\u201d Rodrigo yelled. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the concert ended, the sweat-drenched fans with now slicked-backed hair emerged from the building, gingerly clutching the exclusive \u201cone-night only\u201d posters of Rodrigo that were given away at the exit, so as not to get them wet, and to later prove to friends that they were there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSet List:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cdrop dead\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cu + me = <3\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cstupid song\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cmy way\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cbad idea\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201choneybee\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cdriver\u2019s license\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cmaking the bed\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cmaggots\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201call-american bitch\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cgood 4 u\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cthe cure\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cless\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cexpectations\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cdeja vu\u201d<\/p>\n