{"id":225893,"date":"2025-06-30T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225893\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:04:09","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-brings-out-the-cures-robert-smith-at-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225893\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo Brings Out The Cure’s Robert Smith at Glastonbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo<\/a> surprised Glastonbury<\/a> on Sunday night by bringing out the Cure\u2019s Robert Smith during her headlining set.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s perhaps the best songwriter to come out of England,\u201d she said while introducing Smith. \u201cHe is a Glastonbury legend and a personal hero of mine. Would you please welcome, Robert Smith!\u201d The Cure frontman then came out with his signature star-adorned black acoustic guitar, sporting a sparkly jacket. Together, the pair performed \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love\u201d and \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d as the crowd sang along in glee.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo delivered a powerhouse performance in her first time headlining the Pyramid Stage, opening with a bang with \u201cObsessed,\u201d \u201cBallad of a Homeschooled Girl\u201d and \u201cVampire.\u201d Wearing a lacy white corseted dress and backed by a rocking band, Rodrigo flitted around the stage like she\u2019d done it a thousand times before, oozing confidence and star power. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHoly fucking shit, this is the most people I\u2019ve ever seen in my entire life,\u201d she said as she took a minute to breathe. \u201cThis is a dream come true, I actually can\u2019t believe this is my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe then took fans back to the beginning with \u201cDriver\u2019s License,\u201d sitting at the piano for the ballad. A slew of hits followed, including \u201cTraitor,\u201d \u201cBad Idea Right,\u201d \u201cHappier\u201d and \u201cEnough for You,\u201d after which Smith came on stage,<\/p>\n

\n\tThe last bit of her set consisted of \u201cSo American,\u201d which she dedicated to a British boy she \u201cfell in love with\u201d \u2013 she\u2019s been dating English actor Louis Partridge since 2023, and the two even attended Pulp\u2019s secret set together on Saturday \u2013 followed by \u201cJealousy, Jealousy,\u201d \u201cFavorite Crime\u201d and \u201cDeja Vu.\u201d After a brief encore, Rodrigo came back out on stage in union jack shorts and a shirt that read \u201cYou know all the lyrics to Just Like Heaven,\u201d a Cure reference. \u201cBrutal,\u201d \u201cAll-American Bitch,\u201d \u201cGood 4 U\u201d and \u201cGet Him Back\u201d made for a perfect, cathartic ending as fireworks exploded in the night sky.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo first played the U.K. festival back in 2022. During that performance, she made headlines when she brought out Lily Allen for a performance of her song \u201cFuck You\u201d and dedicated it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which had recently decided to overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m devastated and terrified. So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who have showed us that at the end of the day, they truly don\u2019t give a shit about freedom. The song is for the justices: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh. We hate you! We hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy winner released her sophomore album, \u201cGuts,\u201d in September 2023 after skyrocketing to pop stardom with her debut record \u201cSour\u201d in 2021. Now, fans are awaiting her next era. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, she\u2019s been keeping busy playing around the globe on her Guts World Tour, which extended into 2025 with additional dates in L.A.; Curitiba, Brazil; Mexico City; and Dublin, Ireland. She also played BST Hyde Park in London before heading to Glasto, and then will close out the tour with two dates in Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo surprised Glastonbury on Sunday night by bringing out the Cure\u2019s Robert Smith during her headlining set.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,37713,29683,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-glastonbury","10":"tag-olivia-rodrigo","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114770808897667115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}