Olivia Rodrigo has proudly worn her influences on her sleeve throughout her rocket journey to pop stardom, whether or not it’s giving them songwriting co-credits on her album (Taylor Swift, Paramore) or together with them on her upcoming tour in assist of her sophomore album, GUTS (The Breeders).
However when she advised Rolling Stone in a brand new cowl story that the opening observe of her second album, “All-American Bitch,” was impressed by the OG Riot Grrrl band Babes in Toyland and incendiary political rockers Rage Towards the Machine, effectively, one among them couldn’t imagine it.
“Who would have guessed? @oliviarodrigo,” Rage guitarist Tom Morello tweeted on Wednesday (Sept. 13) together with a pic of Olivia and a pull quote from the RS story by which the Grammy-winning singer stated, “I’ve been listening to a lot Rage Towards the Machine this yr. That’s my favourite band proper now.”
Although Rodrigo’s songs are spiked with 98% extra radio-friendly pop taste than Rage’s flamethrower rap-metal anthems, she defined within the RS story that the Zack de la Rocha-fronted band’s songs of seething vengeance and livid anger at social inequities had been principally all she listened to through the GUTS classes.
“I might simply play it over and over on my approach to and from the studio,” she stated of the band’s songs, lamenting that she desires to attend Rage’s induction into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame on Nov. 3 on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, however can’t make it due to an “immovable schedule battle.” She advised the journal that the battle is frustrating. “I’m actually going to cry myself to sleep about it,” she stated.
Within the meantime, Rodrigo introduced the dates for her 2024 GUTS tour on Wednesday, which may also embrace assist from PinkPantheress, Chappell Roan and Remi Wolf on choose dates.
See Morello’s tweet beneath.
