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The opening night time efficiency of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour — which premiered Friday night time in Palm Springs — is on the report books, and followers desirous to know if their favorites made the setlist now have some thought what to anticipate because the tour winds its manner by the US and Europe for the following six months.
For anybody questioning which covers she is likely to be performing this time round: there are no. All 22 songs within the set come from Rodrigo’s two albums, “Bitter” and “Guts” — together with one of many unique bonus tracks that got here with some editions of the latter album:, “Obsessed,” an particularly welcome element of the set for followers who’re, properly, obsessed.
Though Rodrigo did put on an “I am Only a Woman” T-shirt for the encore, that No Doubt tune was not included within the present, because it was on most of the live shows on her 2022 trek. It is clear that she feels the covers she did on her debut tour have been a kind of Hamburger Helper to assist flesh out a set that was based mostly on a 35-minute freshman album. However now she’s received sufficient authentic materials to finish a 95-minute set, and she or he was desirous to play virtually all of it dwell. In truth, she performed all 12 of the songs on the usual version of “Guts,” plus that bonus monitor as a thirteenth quantity. As for “Bitter,” Rodrigo included 9 of his 11 songs within the set (omitting solely “1 Step Ahead, 3 Steps Again” and the somber nearer “Hope Ur OK”).
One other distinction from the 2022 tour: the inclusion of eight dancers, who generally indulged in choreography that was seen in overhead digicam views, however usually disappeared from the stage throughout both probably the most intimate or most hard-rocking numbers.
The manufacturing of the tour shouldn’t be wildly elaborate by modern requirements, with Rodrigo’s charisma serving as particular impact sufficient. However there was one main manufacturing setpiece — a quarter-moon prop that Rodrigo sat on and sang from because it circled the world by two numbers, “Logical” and “Sufficient for You.”
Rodrigo was in an ebullient temper on the finish of the 95 minutes, climbing down from one of many two ramps that jutted out into the GA space to make bodily contact with the followers gathered across the ramp for a few minutes after the efficiency ended.
Selection can have a full evaluate of the opening night time, together with photographs from the present, on Saturday.
Hypothesis in regards to the content material of the set had been a trending subject on X (previously Twitter) all day main as much as the efficiency, reflecting the Guts Tour’s standing as considered one of 2024’s hottest tickets.
Rodrigo opened the tour Friday night time in the identical area of the nation the place she’ll wrap it up: in her native Southern California. Friday’s present was on the Acrisure Area in Palm Springs, a venue that many California concertgoers are nonetheless encountering for the primary time, because it solely opened 14 months in the past and plenty of LA music followers hadn’t but made the trek out to the desert to take a look at the area’s latest large-scale facility. The tour will come again round and wrap up with 4 exhibits on the Kia Discussion board Aug. 14-17.
Chappell Roan was the opening act Friday night time, as she can be for all of Rodrigo’s tour dates by April 2, at which level the Breeders will take over for a number of dates, adopted by Remi Wolf and PinkPantheress.
Right here is the complete setlist for Rodrigo’s opening night time at Acrisure Area:
Unhealthy Concept, Proper?
Ballad of a Homeschooled Woman
Vampire
Traitor
Drivers License
Teenage Dream
Fairly Is not Fairly
Love Is Embarrassing
Making the Mattress
Logical
Sufficient for You
Lacy
Jealousy, Jealousy
Happier
Favourite Crime
Déjà vu
The Grudge
Brutal
Obsessed
All-American Bitch
Good 4 U
Get Him Again!
All of the Songs From Opening Night time
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