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| | Olivia Rodrigo brought David Byrne onstage to perform 'Burning Down the House' | | Added 37 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Olivia Rodrigo is still going strong on her Guts World Tour, and her latest stop saw her headline the Governors Ball Music Festival in NYC on Saturday. Thankfully, there have been no reports of Olivia falling through a hole in the stage. Instead it was the audience who was treated to an unexpected moment, when she brought out 80s punk rocker and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to the stage for the pair to perform his classic hit, ?Burning Down the House.? Surprise! I mean, he?s no Pesto. But I guess a guest appearance by David Byrne is pretty cool, lol. (To be clear: yes, I?m joking!) Clad in complementary red outfits, both artists looked like they were having a whole lotta fun singing and doing their choreography in sync. And the audience sure seemed into it too:
Pop star Olivia Rodrigo, 22, has excellent taste in music.
The Bad Idea singer, a former Disney Channel star and current Taylor Swift bestie, recently bridged the generational gap between modern pop and ?90s legends by bringing Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on stage. The duo not only danced in sync?they twinned in matching red outfits, sending the audience into what fans called a ?fever dream.? Fans couldn?t get enough of the ?unexpected duo,? with Byrne fans giving respect to the young Driver?s License signer for sharing the stage with the iconic rocker.
Rodrigo was headlining Saturday?s Governors Ball Music Festival when she surprised the crowd by bringing Byrne onstage. Much to the audience?s delight, the 73-year-old music legend arrived wearing bright red overalls that matched Rodrigo?s all-red bra and shorts set. The energetic pair danced (and ran) in unison while belting out Burning Down the House.
Fans loved seeing two generations of music stars unite onstage. In a video shared on social media, one fan wrote, ?I love how she gives props to all my music idols!! David Byrne is the coolest,? while another added, ?I love it,? in reaction to the unexpected collaboration.
Burning Down the House was originally released in 1983 and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Olivia Rodrigo was born in 2003.
[From Parade]
Oh, bless Parade. This excerpt was actually the entire article, but they packed a lot into those 221 words! Starting with the last line: the no-fuss reporting of ?Burning Down the House? being released 20 years before Olivia?s birth was hilarious. Next, I would not call David and Olivia?s outfits ?twinning,? and even ?matched? is a little strong. They were the same color, that?s the end of the similarities! David sported red overalls with a white tee underneath, looking like Super Mario?s Scottish cousin. Olivia, meanwhile, was wearing hot pants (or briefs, really) and a bra top. If David had actually twinned with her tour costume, the headlines coming out of the concert would?ve taken on a whole new tone, is all I?m saying! But the best, most quietly juicy nugget, is the line at the top describing Olivia as a ?current Taylor Swift bestie.? Never has the word ?current? carried so much weight!
Anyway, this was a charming move on Olivia?s part, to extend the invitation to David. Reminded me of when she joined Billy Joel onstage at his Madison Square Garden concert in 2022 to sing ?Uptown Girl.? Not all the youngin?s are as well versed in music history, so it?s nice that she welcomes it into her performances so graciously. And I can?t help it, David Byrne working so earnestly to hit all the dance steps was just plain adorkable. You can see it written all over his face!
Olivia Rodrigo burned down Governors Ball with the help of David Byrne.
During her Saturday night headlining set at the New York City music festival, the pop star brought out the legendary Talking Heads frontman to perform "Burning Down the House." pic.twitter.com/yV1IFnsTN7
CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) June 8, 2025
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| | Olivia Rodrigo was interrogated for a half hour at the border by federal agents | | Added 223 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Olivia Rodrigo has been riding some big highs lately ? like selling 1.4 million tickets for her GUTS World Tour, releasing her concert film of that tour (out on Netflix now), and of course, meeting the King of Australian king penguins, Pesto the giant baby penguin (we?ll still love you once you fledge, baby boy!!!). But there still have been some low moments, too, even if Olivia has picked herself back up and taken things in stride. Sometimes literally, like when she fell through a hole on stage mid-performance at a show in Melbourne, that fans helpfully caught on camera from multiple angles. I still can?t believe how quickly she popped out of that hole and kept going; I wouldn?t have been that nimble even when I was her age. And now Olivia has shared another less-than-stellar incident. She was just on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote the GUTS film, where she told a very unsavory story about being interrogated for a half hour by federal agents at the Canadian border:
Speaking about her tour to Jimmy, Olivia began: ?I got in trouble with the law for the first time in my life.?
?We?re going from Canada to Portland or something, we?re at border control, I give them my passport, like: ?OK, whatever,? then they knock on the door and they?re like: ?We need Olivia,?? the star explained.
?I?m like: ?I just played a few shows, maybe their daughter wants an autograph,?? she continued. ?I come out, it?s 3 a.m. and I?m delirious, and they take me to a room, and it?s an interrogation room and there?s a big cop with a gun and he?s like: ?Have you ever been arrested???
?I?m like: ?No! I haven?t been arrested!?? Olivia recalled. ?He?s like, ?Are you sure?? and I?m gaslighting myself, like: ?Oh my god, maybe I was arrested and I didn?t know it!??
?He?s like: ?You know, you can go to jail for lying to a federal officer, this is really bad,?? Olivia went on. ?I?m freaking out, like: ?I?m not going to get into America!? I?m so scared, I?m, like, having a panic attack.?
She then concluded: ?After 30 minutes of interrogation, he looks at me and goes: ?What?s your name?? [I said] ?Olivia Rodrigo: R O D R I G O,? and he?s like: ?Oh, there?s a girl who looks just like you that?s the same age that?s been arrested multiple times and her name?s Olivia Rodriguez.??
Visibly still in disbelief over the whole ordeal, Olivia admitted to the host: ?Jimmy, I was pissed! I?m like: ?You didn?t look at the name on the thing and you?re interrogating me for 30 minutes?!? but phew, crisis averted.?
The segment ended with both Olivia and Jimmy wondering who the real Olivia Rodriguez is as they warned her to keep a low profile.
[From BuzzFeed]
Ugh. To borrow the parlance of Olivia?s generation: this story gives me ?the ick.? She did say it was three in the morning, which means the officers were tired too. But reading and confirming a person?s frickin? name has to be the very basic of first steps. It barely even adds up, because Olivia had already handed them her passport! Who flagged her name, anyway, and was it from reading the passport or from hearing an agent say her name? I want a full-scale investigation into this!! I?m glad Olivia called him out after the cop copped to getting the wrong name! Again, double checking the name with the alleged criminal you?re looking to bring in, really is the absolute lowest of expectations for law enforcement. At least Olivia was able to make good late night TV fodder out of this. She was so funny describing how easily she started second-guessing herself, ?Wait, have I been arrested??
Later on in the interview, she also shared a sweet follow up to that whole falling-in-a-hole-on-stage episode. After she finished the concert, Olivia went to the hospital to make sure she didn?t have a concussion. The nurse who tended to her was Filipino and had the same name as her late grandfather, so Olivia thought it was him giving her a nod from beyond that she?s ok. Aw, that story gives me ?the feels.?
Photos credit: Miles Leavitt/Netflix, Emilio Madrid/Getty Images for Netflix
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| | Olivia Rodrigo fell through a hole on stage, 'oh my god, that was fun' | | Added 239 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Olivia Rodrigo had the honor, nay, the privilege of being granted an audience with the King of Australian king penguins: Pesto, the giant baby penguin. The grand meeting happened last week at Pesto?s palace, the Sea Life Melbourne aquarium, where Olivia was in town for four stops on her Guts World Tour. While everything after meeting Pesto was naturally going to be a let down by comparison to the fluffy king, I didn?t think things would go downhill so immediately or literally. At her Sunday performance in Melbourne, fans caught on camera Olivia very dramatically falling through a hole on stage. Who left a gaping hole on stage?! Pro that she is, Olivia popped back up and quipped, ?Oh my god, that was fun.? Oh, to be young? and able to spring back from a fall so easily.
It really is brutal out here. Olivia Rodrigo?s lyrics imitated life when she took a nasty tumble through a trapdoor while on the stage during her Guts World Tour show in Australia.
The ?bad idea right?? singer, 21, was performing at Rod LAver Arena on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Melbourne, when she suddenly disappeared after accidentally falling through a trapdoor.
As the crowd gasped, Rodrigo came up for air and joked about the incident.
?Oh my God, that was fun! I?m OK,? the Grammy winner said, chuckling at her unexpected tumble while pulling herself up.
?Wow, sometimes, there?s just a hole in the stage,? she laughed. ?That?s alright.?
Trying to compose herself, the ?Vampire? singer took a deep breath and stated, ?OK, where was I? How?re we doing tonight, Melbourne??
Rodrigo quickly recovered from the spill and finished the concert without another fall. She later poked fun at the mishap via TikTok.
Posting a clip of the accident, she captioned the footage, ?#subtleforeshadowing.?
The pop star has several shows left on the Australian leg of her first-ever world tour: one more in Melbourne and four in Sydney.
Rodrigo?s plunge happened just weeks before the release of her Netflix concert film, ?Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour.?
The streaming giant filmed the special at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. The film promises to give fans a look inside her sold-out tour, featuring songs from her latest album, ?Guts,? and her debut record, ?Sour.?
It?s available to stream on Netflix starting October 29.
?I am so excited to share the GUTS World Tour with my fans,? the star said in a statement. ?For those of you who didn?t get a chance to rock out in-person, now you can have the best seats in the house! And to the fans who cheered, screamed, and danced with me, I am so glad we get to do it all over again!?
Rodrigo?s 2024 touring year will end after her remaining stops in Australia ? but she won?t be on break for long.
The ?Deja Vu? singer?s overseas tour will resume in March 2025 at Lollapalooza in Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Rodrigo will also head to Colombia for Festival Estereo Picnic before ending in Manchester on June 30 and July 1.
[From NY Post]
Seriously, who left the trap door open on that stage?! This was not her first show in Melbourne, so presumably she?d performed at the venue before without any mishaps. There is no way this problem wouldn?t have been discovered and fixed if a proper pre-show stage check had been done. In terms of danger level, this reminds me of someone switching out Kesha?s prop knife with a real butcher knife at Lollapalooza this summer. Watch the video below ? Olivia falls through that hole hard. And not surprisingly, given that the trap door is seamlessly camouflaged with the stage. Thank goodness it appears she wasn?t badly hurt. And good on her for finding a way to laugh about it, a la Lainey Wilson when she realized her pants had split open on stage. All of these women handled their near-catastrophes like champs. Still, they deserve a better job of safety being secured before the show goes on.
Olivia Rodrigo falls into the stage hole at her Melbourne show:
?Oh my god! That was fun!?
pic.twitter.com/XfALrVRlee
Pop Base (@PopBase) October 14, 2024
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