Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith Debut First Collaboration at Primavera Sound

Olivia Rodrigo used a surprise pop-up set at Primavera Sound on Saturday to perform “what’s wrong with me,” her first official collaboration — and a long-rumored one, given Robert Smith’s increasingly visible presence in her orbit. The track will appear on you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, arriving June 12.

Introducing the song to the Barcelona crowd, Rodrigo didn’t bury her admiration: “It’s really special to me for so many reasons — primarily because it’s my first collaboration. I can’t believe this song exists and with the person that it exists with.” The friendship has been publicly documented since Smith joined her during Glastonbury 2025, but it solidified in private. He told Vogue recently that Rodrigo calls him “quite a bit to talk about clothes and fashion,” and that they spent “a couple of memorable nights in the studio together.” Smith, who bought and admired both Sour and Guts, added a disarmingly plain summary: “Although most of the songs on those two albums are not really ‘aimed at my demographic’ (!), they are all so good that it is hard not to fall in love with them.”

Rodrigo’s set also included the album’s two previous previews, “drop dead” and “the cure” — the latter bearing no relation to Smith’s band. Older material like “bad idea right?” and “good 4 u” was mixed in, holding the broad crowd while the new song gave weight to the collaboration’s quiet, mutual fandom. The Cure’s own headlining performance the night before made the weekend a rare study in cross-generational overlap, without forced synergy.

The album is days away, and a European tour follows in September. At Primavera, the surprise wasn’t simply that they shared a stage — but that the song existed at all, delivered without announcement, as if testing the connection Smith had described months earlier.