Olivia Rodrigo is able to take a well-deserved break on the conclusion of her Guts World Tour in 2025. When requested what she plans to do after the tour — which continues subsequent 12 months in Brazil, Mexico, Ireland and the U.Okay. — Rodrigo instructed Billboard’s deputy editor Lyndsey Havens: “I’m so excited to just rot on the couch and eat so much food.”
Rodrigo was offered with the touring artist of the 12 months honor at Billboard’s 2024 Live Music Summit in Los Angeles on Thursday (Nov. 14) after her Guts World Tour grossed $184.6 million from over 1.4 million tickets bought, in accordance with figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.
After reveals on the tour, Rodrigo says she instantly will get offstage and ices her toes, which she joked is “really sexy.”
“I jump around a lot, like my calves get sore. So, yeah, that’s what I do. Take a shower, take off my makeup, and head back to the hotel,” Rodrigo mentioned. “It’s really not that exciting. It’s a really interesting shift to go from like being in front of 1000s of people to like being alone in your hotel rooms.”
While on tour, Rodrigo mentioned considered one of her favourite songs to carry out for catharsis is “All-American Bitch,” which options the younger star floating over the viewers on a crescent moon.
“There’s a part of the song where I make the whole audience scream and think of something that you hate or something that really ticks you off, and just let it all out and scream. I think that’s so powerful,” Rodrigo mentioned. “It’s very cathartic. It feels like a rage room or something. There’s something so cool about being able to be in a room with 1000s of people and to be anonymous and get all your emotions out. I just love that aspect of music.”
Her power onstage matches that of a few of her all-time favourite reside performers, which she mentioned contains Beyoncé and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
In October, Rodrigo launched her tour documentary Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour on Netflix, and watching it again in movie format, the singer mentioned it was laborious to not be important of herself.
“I was trying not to be too critical the whole time. I’m just like, ‘Be nice to yourself.’ It’s really weird because I know that show like the back of my hand. I’ve done it so many times,” she mentioned. “Watching it I was like, ‘Why are you so nervous? You got it, girl. You got it.’”
When requested if something shocked her from seeing herself carry out for the primary time, Rodrigo mentioned, “I was working out so much on tour and I watched things back, I was like, ‘Yeah, I got muscles in my arms for the first time in my life.’ That was surprising.”
