Discuss solely in desires. Olivia Rodrigo capped off her world Guts tour over the weekend by sharing the stage with the primary band she ever noticed dwell: Weezer. We all know this as a result of, nicely, she mentioned it when singer/guitarist Rivers Cuomo and guitarist Brian Bell and bassist Scott Shriner joined the 22-year-old singer on stage at Lollapalooza on Friday run by means of their Blue Album classics “Buddy Holly” and “Say It Ain’t So.”
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“You all the time bear in mind your first live performance. It’s a really, very particular second,” Rodrigo instructed the gang in Chicago’s Grant Park on the second day of this yr’s fest. “I bear in mind my first live performance. It was a really memorable evening. I watched this unimaginable band and I’m so over the moon, as a result of that unimaginable band is definitely right here tonight to play just a few songs. Will you please say good day to Weezer?”
Rodrigo provided receipts on Monday evening (Aug 4) when she posted an lovable image from that first present by which she’s rocking a Weezer T-shirt, big protecting headphones and a mile-wide smile. “My first live performance and my final weekend of the GUTS tour. thank u to everybody who got here out and thank u @weezer for nonetheless making me this excited all these years later!!! can’t imagine how fortunate I’m to have the ability to play these exhibits with yall!!!!” she wrote alongside the snap.
The put up additionally included a video of Rodrigo jamming on “Buddy Holly” with Cuomo and an epic shot of the pair squaring off and enjoying guitar at each other. Weezer clearly acquired the significance of the second and have been psyched to make Rodrigo’s dream come true, writing within the feedback, “Full circle second and an absolute honor, thanks.”
Rodrigo has shared the stage with a protracted record of her musical heroes over the previous few years, together with enjoying “Uptown Girl” with Billy Joel throughout his MSG residency in 2022, jamming on “Torn” with Natalie Imbruglia at a London bar that yr, and this summer time, enjoying “The A Team” with Ed Sheeran in London in June and “Burning Down the House” with David Byrne at Gov Ball that very same month. She capped provide her infinite summer time by dropping her thoughts when her “personal hero,” The Treatment’s Robert Smith, joined her at Glastonbury in late June for his band’s “Friday I’m in Love” and “Simply Like Heaven.”