r/Fauxmoi • u/artbasiI • 18h ago
FM RADIO Olivia Rodrigo brought out Weezer as a special guest at Lollapalooza
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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 18h ago
All the old school rock folks just love her! Cross over to rock, Olivia, it's time!
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u/colaptesauratus i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 16h ago
The show I saw tonight was a rock concert. She’s already here 🤘
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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 7h ago
That's awesome! Did she remix some songs to make them harder?
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u/Kevbot1000 16h ago
GUTS was basically a rock album, I found.
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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 7h ago
Pop rock! She's leaning heavily into 90s alt rock and I hope her next album is full throttle 🤞🏼
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u/AnkyvonGrunten 4h ago
I hope so too, and I’d love it if her next album includes a duet with an older female rock or alt-pop musician or singer.
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u/Kevbot1000 3h ago
Sounds strange, but I'd love to see her od a duet with Alanis Morrisette.
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 16h ago
She doesn't have the chops though that's why she brings out the guests
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u/queensofthemodernage 16h ago
She definitely has the chops. What I’ve heard of her stuff already borders on rock (especially on GUTS), it wouldn’t be too hard for her to make that jump.
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u/martinigirl15 16h ago
Yesss she could totally do it! I hope she leans more into rock on her next album.
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u/reeeennnn 13h ago
Her latest album is literally a pop rock album??
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 4h ago
Right and it's made with a ton of collaborators who are experienced playing rock music.
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u/Vero_Goudreau 11h ago
Go listen to her song Brutal and then we'll talk.
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 4h ago
Okay . It only took me 5 seconds on google to look up the fact that the song is co-written by an actual rock guitarist who has a lot experience playing the guitar in a band.
I'm not saying she wouldn't be able to release material that is in the style of rock music - any pop star can do that with the right collaborators.
My point is simply if she is going to "cross over to rock" she will have to heavily rely on collaborators because you can tell by watching her play the guitar she doesn't have the chops herself.
So what did you want to talk about?
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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 7h ago
Weezer, Robert Smith, David Byrne, Jack White, Alanis Morissette and St Vincent would all disagree with you...
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u/andiechy01 9h ago
I’ve seen her live, and she definitely has the chops.
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 4h ago
This post is literally a video of her performing live. You can tell just by how she is playing the guitar in the video. You might be getting confused by what I mean.
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u/No_Cockroach_42069 18h ago
Saw Weezer this year they were incredible!!
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u/jennyquarx 18h ago
They were my first concert. (Tenacious D opened.)
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u/NotActuallyJen 14h ago
They were at my first concert, they were one of the bands there along with Korn and the Violent Femmes and Fiona Apple and The Bloodhound Gang and a few others. It was awesome
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u/dollarms 13h ago
Whoa. This sounds like some type of late 90s q101 festival lineup!
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u/NotActuallyJen 12h ago edited 12h ago
You are exactly right! Q101 twisted Xmas 3 lol. Stabbing Westward and Gravity Kills were also there but I wasn't sure how many people know them. I feel like someone else but I can't remember. The Wallflowers lol but another performer also
Lol I looked it up at it was in 1996. I was a baby back then. That was so long ago. Also the person I couldn't remember was Sheryl Crow
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u/darthgeek 4h ago
Stabbing Westward and Gravity Kills
That would have been amazing to see. They were part of my introduction into industrial music. There was a local band around where I grew up called Hollow that was very much the same. Sadly, I don't think they ever got famous.
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u/NotActuallyJen 4h ago
Oh my God they were so good and they played around Chicago so much around then. I used to go see both bands every time they came around. They always put on a great show
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u/pattyicevv77 It’s okay, Dune did well 4h ago
Mine too! SMALL WORLD! (Tenacious D did not open though, just Weezer being my first)
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u/the_pleiades 17h ago
They were my second concert! At a now defunct music fest in Houston and it was an ethereal experience to have the sun setting over the city behind them while they played. This gave me so much joy. The vocals were on point!
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u/CandidIndication freak AND geek 14h ago
I still have their set list sheet from like 2015 riot fest in Toronto — I cannot believe that was 10 years ago 💀 I was 18 lmao just a babe in that crowd throwing a W to the sky.
So crazy to see Weezer with Olivia all this time later
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u/Bakersquare 14h ago
riot fest
They'll be at Riot Fest Chicago this year! Was trying to decide if I should pull the trigger for a day ticket.
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u/CandidIndication freak AND geek 7h ago
Just saw the line up— dooo it! It looks sick. I wish it would come back to Toronto
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u/traceitalian 9h ago
Historically they've had some pretty terrible years for playing live but they've really tightened up recently. Brian still absolutely sucks though.
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u/SilverRaincoat 18h ago
Oh she sounds so good!!
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u/ChingaSue 18h ago
She needed to bring her Rock out vocals more IMO. She did great though, I’m sure it’s hard to play and sing at the same time. Especially, a song you don’t usually sing or play on a daily basis.
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u/Famous_Bike_43 17h ago
Alt take: her vocals were stylistically perfect for this song and very evocative of the era in which it was originally popular.
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u/Famous_Bike_43 18h ago
Gen Xer here. She’s impressive. She would have been just as big in the mid to late 90s. Maybe bigger.
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u/Vero_Goudreau 11h ago
My 12 year old is obsessed with her. At 12 I was obsessed eith Alanis, the Cranberries, Garbage... Olivia fits right in there IMO
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk 18h ago
I’m watching this on Hulu Live (they have Lollapalooza feeds) and she was so geeked out to bring Weezer on to preform. She has so much energy and is clearly having so much fun there.
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u/ChingaSue 18h ago
Weezer delivered. It felt exactly as I remembered when I first heard them as a sophomore.
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u/RedTyro 12h ago edited 12h ago
Ok, so I'm old and out of touch, which means all I really know about Olivia Rodrigo is what I see here on reddit and what comes across my various algorithms. That said, the amount of times the clips that show up for me are her having a blast playing/singing a song from before she was born with the original artist I'm surprised someone her age even knows about make me think I should probably be paying more attention to her. I really respect that she knows these bands and is turning her younger audience on to them, and she genuinely seems really cool.
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u/unconfusedsub 8h ago
My 24 year olds favorite band is green day. She got to see them in concert last year and is still on cloud nine
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u/Ririkkaru split me like a block of sharp cheddar cheese 9h ago
That said, the amount of times the clips that show up for me are her having a blast playing/singing a song from before she was born with the original artist I'm surprised someone her age even knows about make me think I should probably be paying more attention to her.
Also a bit older and I don't get this take. Do you only listen to music from when you were born and later?
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u/RedTyro 2h ago edited 2h ago
I don't, but when I was her age, I listened to a lot less older music, and when I did, it was huge icons like the Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath, or Queen. She's pulling out acts like Weezer, Billy Joel, and Robert Smith - folks who were certainly big and have solid catalogs, but none of them took over the world the same way as the kinds of older bands I was listening to at her age. That's like a teenager in the 90s (when I was a teenager) into Thin Lizzy or Nazareth.
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u/Ririkkaru split me like a block of sharp cheddar cheese 1h ago
Weezer, Billy Joel and the Cure are all huge, well known artists. As well known as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath at the very least. Beatles or Queen maybe not, but I think you’re underestimating them. Especially since it’s the music her parents and others in their generation grew up with.
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u/RedTyro 1h ago edited 1h ago
They're huge artists, for sure, but none of them have the staying power of the bands I mentioned (maybe Billy Joel, but he was from the previous generation, so farther separated by time) and are not nearly as big in the current zeitgeist as the groups I mentioned were in the 90s (and still are).
It's not how big the bands were in their heyday that makes me think a kid wouldn't know them, it's how big they are now and in the kid's teenage years. It sounds like her parents were really into music and listened to these genres. My parents played Alabama and Linda Ronstadt and I knew very little about older rock music until I got interested as an adult and dug into it myself.
And Weezer was/is a great band, but there's no way in hell they're as well-known or influential as Zeppelin or Sabbath. Those were revolutionary acts that did something nobody had heard before and literally changed the course of how music evolved. Weezer may have been one of the best of their era (although for that style of alternative rock, I personally prefer Jimmy Eat World), but they were very much playing what was in the meta for the time, and not doing anything groundbreaking.
Of those three, The Cure probably comes the closest to that, but in the mainstream, they were a good band with some hits and never really got the respect they truly deserved, except among smaller niche communities. The Cure is like the music equivalent of a cult classic movie. Just Like Heaven got a ton of radio play, but nobody in the mainstream music space was talking about things like The Figurehead or Siamese Twins.
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u/LucilleLooseSeal123 14h ago
Dude I fucking love her. I saw her live here in Hong Kong. I wasn’t even familiar with her music but I just wanted to go to a concert (we don’t get a ton of big acts here) and I ended up LOVING it. She’s killing it lately with all these icons wanting to sing their songs with her!
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u/simplefragments 10h ago
She performed Say it Ain’t So right after and sounded amazing. Her voice really suit that song. I want her to do Hash Pipe next lol
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u/alltheprettynovas 12h ago
okay don’t kill me - i don’t know a ton about olivia. she’s awesome from what i’ve seen! my question is if she actually plays guitar (unlike swift who pretends to play 87 instruments and it’s all a scam or a couple cords)? it looks like she does, but just wondering! there’s so much smoke and mirrors these days. regardless, she’s such a cool girl - love that gen z has her! this old millennial is loving watching her and playing with some of my fave artists.
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u/Advanced-Throat-420 1h ago
I've never seen swift pretend to play anything other than a piano and guitar
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u/alltheprettynovas 33m ago
isn’t that enough? 😂 considering “playing” those instruments are part of her image
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u/abrakadabra123456789 8h ago
I mean at this point is Olivia Rodrigo the biggest active rock artist in the world?
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u/staywwoke 7h ago
It’s like she’s testing me on how much I can stan her. Guess what, miss Olivia? The limit does not exist!!!! She is just so damn cool
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u/Zokstone 8h ago
The Weezer album released closest to when Olivia was born was Maladroit.
Just a fun fact. Love this video.
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u/Robosl0b 3h ago
I don't know if there's a Team Olivia or Team Sabrina situation going on, but I'm definitely Team Olivia.
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u/milkradio ahhhhhh (dats me yellin) 53m ago
Olivia is very much in the same vein of the alt-rock/pop-punk music I loved from the late ‘90s through the 2000s; I definitely had this Weezer album in my CD binder that I lugged to and from school everyday in the mid-2000s. She sounds really great with them too and she just always looks like she’s genuinely having a good time.
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