If it’s not already chilly sufficient for you on the market, Olivia Rodrigo served up some critical pop chills on Monday evening (Dec. 11) throughout a efficiency of her soundtrack music for The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, “Can’t Catch Me Now.”
Contemporary off a cake-smashing Saturday Night time Dwell efficiency and a visit to NPR for a Tiny Desk present, Rodrigo stuffed the already notoriously frigid Ed Sullivan Theater with goosebump-inducing pop vibes as she sat on a stool in a white slip costume on a fog-enshrouded set to start the efficiency. “However I’m within the timber, I’m within the breeze/ My footsteps on the bottom/ You’ll see my face in each place/ However you’ll be able to’t catch me now,” Rodrigo sang in an ethereal voice on the music’s refrain because the digicam panned again to disclose white lights chopping by means of smoke and a backing band enjoying the music’s haunting monitor.
By the top, Rodrigo was up on her ft, howling, “you’ll be able to’t catch me now” because the music raged to a crescendo earlier than fading to an ominous denoument as she whispered, “you thought that this was the top.” The evening was notable for different causes as properly, because it marked host Stephen Colbert’s return to the desk two weeks after he suffered a ruptured appendix that despatched him to the hospital for emergency surgical procedure.
The sometimes unflappable host described the “belly agony” he suffered on Nov. 21, the morning after his chat with former fellow late nighter David Letterman. “I figured the ache would go away so I made a decision to do the present that evening,” he stated of the chat with the discuss present legend. “How unhealthy may or not it’s? Seems extraordinarily unhealthy.”
Although he insisted on ending that present, Colbert stated his spouse Evie satisfied him to go to the hospital.
Watch Rodrigo carry out “Can’t Catch Me Now” on The Late Present beneath.
