Talk about only in dreams. Olivia Rodrigo capped off her global Guts tour over the weekend by sharing the stage with the first band she ever saw live: Weezer. We know this because, well, she said it when singer/guitarist Rivers Cuomo and guitarist Brian Bell and bassist Scott Shriner joined the 22-year-old singer on stage at Lollapalooza on Friday run through their Blue Album classics “Buddy Holly” and “Say It Ain’t So.”
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“You always remember your first concert. It’s a very, very special moment,” Rodrigo told the crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park on the second day of this year’s fest. “I remember my first concert. It was a very memorable night. I watched this incredible band and I am so over the moon, because that incredible band is actually here tonight to play a few songs. Will you please say hello to Weezer?”
Rodrigo provided receipts on Monday night (Aug 4) when she posted an adorable picture from that first show in which she’s rocking a Weezer T-shirt, giant protective headphones and a mile-wide smile. “My first concert and my last weekend of the GUTS tour. thank u to everyone who came out and thank u @weezer for still making me this excited all these years later!!! cannot believe how lucky I am to be able to play these shows with yall!!!!” she wrote alongside the snap.
The post also included a video of Rodrigo jamming on “Buddy Holly” with Cuomo and an epic shot of the pair squaring off and playing guitar at one another. Weezer clearly got the importance of the moment and were psyched to make Rodrigo’s dream come true, writing in the comments, “Full circle moment and an absolute honor, thank you.”
Rodrigo has shared the stage with a long list of her musical heroes over the past few years, including playing “Uptown Girl” with Billy Joel during his MSG residency in 2022, jamming on “Torn” with Natalie Imbruglia at a London bar that year, and this summer, playing “The A Team” with Ed Sheeran in London in June and “Burning Down the House” with David Byrne at Gov Ball that same month. She capped offer her endless summer by losing her mind when her “personal hero,” The Cure’s Robert Smith, joined her at Glastonbury in late June for his band’s “Friday I’m in Love” and “Just Like Heaven.”
