Olivia Rodrigo Brings Out The Cure’s Robert Smith as She Wraps Up Politically Charged Glastonbury
Olivia Rodrigo welcomed The Treatment frontman Robert Smith onto the Pyramid Stage as she wrapped up a politically charged Glastonbury Competition on Sunday night time.
The “deja vu” singer obliged with all the fan favorites from her final two albums, Bitter and Guts, together with “good 4 u,” “jealousy, jealousy” and “traitor.”
“Holy fucking shit,” the U.S. star stated from the fest’s iconic important stage, the place 1000’s stood to see her carry out. “I don’t assume I’ve ever seen so many individuals in my life.”
She introduced out Smith — “the best songwriter to come back out of England” — practically halfway into the set. The pair performed “Friday I’m in Love” and “Simply Like Heaven” collectively.
A candy second occurred when Rodrigo devoted the tune “so american” to Brit boyfriend and actor Louis Partridge, who was watching from backstage. “I fucking love England,” she started. “I like the tradition. I like how no person judges you for having a pint at midday. I like English sweets — I’ve had three sticky toffee puddings since I arrived.”
“I additionally actually love English boys,” she continued. “I wrote this subsequent track after I was falling in love with this boy from London and as we have been attending to know one another, we have been discovering all of those cross-cultural variations. I’d make enjoyable of him for consuming a jacket potato with beans within it. He would make enjoyable of me for announcing issues very American — like Glaston-berry — so I took all of our little inside jokes and I made a track on that.”
The annual occasion, which kicked off Wednesday with a 250,000-plus-person attendance, is the crowning jewel of music festivals. Lorde made a shock look on Friday as her new album Virgin was born, and Charli xcx thrilled Brat followers Saturday night time. However this 12 months, issues usually bought political onstage.
Competition organizers launched a press release Sunday after rap duo Bob Vylan chanted “demise to the IDF” (the Israel Protection Forces) throughout their set on the West Holts stage on Saturday.
“Their chants very a lot crossed a line, and we’re urgently reminding everybody concerned within the manufacturing of the pageant that there isn’t any place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech, or incitement to violence,” wrote Emily Eavis, daughter of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis.
Elsewhere, Irish rap trio Kneecap additionally took to the stage to voice their pro-Palestine views and used the platform to criticize the U.Okay. and U.S. governments, as nicely as the U.S. media.
The band, the themes of Wealthy Peppiatt’s print-the-legend biopic Kneecap, additionally thanked the Eavis household for permitting them to play regardless of pushback from U.Okay. politicians, together with Tradition Secretary Lisa Nandy. “An enormous thanks to the Eavis household,” they stated. “The stress that that household was underneath they usually stood robust. Truthful play to them.”
In line with The 1975’s Matty Healy (the band was the primary to headline Friday night time), viewers watching the BBC’s dwell Glastonbury protection at house might need been “disenchanted” by the “lack of politics on this present.”
He stated Friday: “I need you to understand it’s a aware choice. … We don’t need our legacy to be politics; we would like our [message] to be love and friendship.” Shortly after, screens flanking the band as they performed “Love It If We Made It” displayed, amongst others, clips of KKK rituals, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, the battle in Gaza, Kanye West, police brutality within the U.S., 9/11 and London’s Grenfell Tower burning down.