Charli xcx’s pop-focused headline set and a surprise appearance by Olivia Rodrigo with Smashing Pumpkins defined the festival’s second night in Chicago.
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Charli xcx’s pop-focused headline set and a surprise appearance by Olivia Rodrigo with Smashing Pumpkins defined the festival’s second night in Chicago.
The appearance, nearly upstaged by an airport sighting, extends a pattern of Rodrigo paying direct homage to ’90s alt-rock figures onstage.
Ahead of her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival, Olivia Rodrigo sat down with the Center for Reproductive Rights to discuss the legal landscape of abortion restrictions post-Dobbs, calling the bans a form of control.
The one-day event, set for August 2026 in Southern California, pairs a multi-generational lineup with donations to a range of women’s advocacy organisations.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love debuts with 485,000 units, topping Drake and securing the year’s largest sales frame for a solo artist.
The singer’s “You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love” follows a relationship from start to finish, trading pop-punk hooks for introspection and a cameo from The Cure’s Robert Smith.
The singer’s third album arrives after a four-year gap, splitting its tracklist into two emotional halves and pulling from Eighties sonics.
The singer-songwriter returns June 12 with ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,’ a record that pushes beyond teenage diaristic pop, produced by Daniel Nigro and spotlighted by over 200 record shops opening at midnight.
The pop star’s surprise set featured “what’s wrong with me,” her first co-write with The Cure frontman, ahead of her new album this month.
On the cusp of a new album, Rodrigo sat with a Times podcast and faced a familiar question. Her answer left room for reading between the lines.
