Olivia Rodrigo Performs “Thirty-Three” with Smashing Pumpkins at Lollapalooza

Olivia Rodrigo returned to Lollapalooza on Friday not as a headliner, but as a guest during the Smashing Pumpkins’ set. Her appearance was half‑spoiled by an earlier airport spotting, yet the moment still landed with purpose: she joined the band for “Thirty‑Three,” a deep cut from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

The collaboration reads less like a random festival cameo and more like another chapter in Rodrigo’s steady dialogue with the alt‑rock that shaped her. Earlier this year, former Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur told NME that Rodrigo had told her 13‑year‑old daughter, “Without your mother, none of this would have happened.” Auf der Maur pointed to that remark as the instant she recognized a genuine lineage — something she also hears in Rodrigo’s songwriting and sees in the SOUR cover’s wink toward Hole’s Live Through This.

Rodrigo has built a quiet record of these live convergences. She’s stood onstage with Robert Smith, Weezer, David Byrne, No Doubt, and Avril Lavigne — each time pulling the context of her own music closer to its sources. The Lollapalooza set also included Yungblud on “Luna” and a reunion with Auf der Maur for “The Everlasting Gaze,” tightening the evening around that shared history.