Pop queens music are the new rock gods

Pop queens music are the new rock gods

The biggest stars today are creating a new rock paradigm in crowded stadiums and extensive tours

Olivia Rodrigo He is living his peak in the era of festivals. She is breaking a new record when she is headliner of 18 music festivals in a single year – and is doing it with a fully rock -oriented show. The singer is going through everything, Lollapaloozain Chicago, Bonnarooin Tennessee, and the Governors Ball in New York. But she’s not alone. Female headliners dominate the stages of the great summer festivals, either with Gracie Abramsin the Outside Lands, or Charli XCX at the top of the Glastonbury line-up. The consecration of Chappell Roan node Lollapalooza 2024 It was just the beginning. Second Rolling Stonewe are living an era in which pop queens took the place of the old rock gods.

When Lollapalooza Chicago announced that Olivia and Sabrina Carpenter would be headliners in 2025 (with Tyler, The Creator and Rüfüs du Sol), with Abrams Also in a prominent position, the predictable reaction arose: much complaint that the festival would be abandoning its “precious roots of rock”. Like, “bro, what these pop girls do so doing here?” But Olivia, Sabrina, Chappell, Graci And so many others are creating a new winning stadium rock paradigm, with guitars and everything, looking for the same kind of collective hysteria as old rock stars seemed to have left behind a long time ago.

Olivia He presented to the world his new footprint at the shows of South America this spring, transforming his tour show Guts In a rock explosion to hit head. She was headliner in Lollapalooza From Argentina, Chile and Brazil, staring at the biggest audiences of his career so far. This girl has always enjoyed making her rock’n’roll movements.

But the Olivia of Lolla It is increasing the volume of rock and leaving the rest aside. She leaves the energy of musical theater – is no longer floating on the audience sitting on a crescent moon. The show starts with “Obsessed”, What is already insane, plunging into an aggressive grunge of giving aneurysm. Her band only women has plenty of room to shine. She makes cover of“Don’t speak”But it turns your guitar ballads into even bigger hymns to be sung in choir at the stadium. It all comes down to the moment in“Bad Idea Right”When she kneels and crawls down the catwalk until she bend in the guitarist’s worship in the middle of a solo. It’s not exactly the first star of rock to make this movement, but she takes milk from the stone in the drama – something that has always been a specialty of Olivia “Until you make it something just from her.”

Olivia has always boasted his love for the 1990s rock queens, since he made a cover of Veruca Salt in your first tour. This is the girl who said casually to Rolling Stone that your mother used to wake her up with the album every day Fontanellefrom BABES IN TOYLAND. (It’s not even the band’s most famous album – it’s an impressive jewel.) But now she openly celebrates this connection with the 90s rocker legacy and takes him to the future.

On the tour Gutsshe put BIKINI KILL on the pre-show trail and took the Breeders as an opening band. “I share my life into two distinct periods,” she told the audience. “Before you hear ‘Cannonball‘And after hearing’Cannonball‘. ” It is a moment of complete cycle – as always, it is obsessed with the details and knows its own story from the inside out.

Node Lollapalooza, Olivia is as a headliner just above the legendary Kornwhich is simply perfect. Korn burst in the late 1990s, height of the MTV Total Request Livewhere the daily dispute between the fans was between Britney Spears/BACKSTREET BOYS and Korn/Limp Bizkit. But now, Korn is opening for a girl who combines the best of Britney with the best of Korn – A true “Freak Off the Leash”.

The apotheotic show of Chappell Roan node Lollapalooza In 2024 it was a real change of guard. It is surreal to think that it was originally climbed to a small stage until they need to change their presentation to the main stage due to absurd demand. But her show grew so much that it turned out to be greater than the rest of the festival added, possibly gathering the biggest crowd in history Lollapalooza – a real Female. A few years ago, something like this would be unthinkable. But this is the age we are now.

It is a monumental change. The 1990s, the favorite musical era of Oliviathey were defined by an explosion of feminist rock, with artists making noise from the indie circuit to the big stadiums and the mainstream. But the reaction was brutal, with the radios abruptly cutting the dissemination of these artists. Woodstock ’99 He gave the tone of the New Age, with its misogynistic violence and the machismo of the naked metal. This marked the end of one era and the beginning of another, with the industry backwards and returning to the times when shows and festivals with men only were the norm. In 2004, there was only a major rock tour all year round with a woman in training – the reunion of Pixieswith Kim Deal in the bass.

So it was so significant to see Kim cause with Breeders on the tour Guts from the Olivia. And even more remarkable that, between the two bands, there was only a man musician on stage all night – the drummer of Breeders. Sometimes it is these subtle ironies that tell the most powerful story. But pop girls came to claim the legacy of rock stars – and show everyone how to do it. Live to tell.

+++ Read more: Olivia Rodrigo breaks the bubble with deafening show at Lollapalooza Brasil

Source: Rollingstone

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