Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields Festival: Pop Star Performance Review

Did it generally feel to you like people, the people who were there, like they sort of got a sense of this being like a bigger moment than an average music festival? Like, did it feel like...

the excitement of history being made or, and you know, that's a dramatic way of putting it, but that'd feel like that.

It did.

I,

and it's, it's funny cause that sounds dramatic, but I think having been there, it like that actually just does not sound dramatic in any sense of the word

because there

were, I feel like there were multiple layers of history being made, you know, like, or not even history, just big moments.

Like I was, as a journalist, I think this is fairly common.

We're at these places alone.

So, you know, you tend to just listen in on other people having fun.

And so there was a group of women, maybe in their forties, and they were just having the best time.

And amongst themselves, we're talking about like, how cool we actually get to go to a festival.

And like, we were so excited about bikini kill and the breeders and like all these women that you're not usually getting to see that many OG rock acts back to back to back on a bill.

Like people try to spread that out.

And like Olivia said, when she was talking about Lilith fair, like it used to be such a radical idea to even have women playing back to back at a festival or too many on a bill.

Um, So they were just so excited about that.

They called it the elder lady stage.

There were two stages of the day.

And

yeah,

I will say all the like, all the, you know, more veteran bands were on one.

But I think that worked for a lot of people who didn't want to ping pong.

Well, that was the next thing I actually did want to ask you about was just this sort of two-stage setup that they had.

It was one of the things that I thought was really cool that they had these two stages and scheduled it very purposefully so that the sets never ran over one another.

And sometimes that can be kind of the fun of a music festival.

Did it generally feel to you like people, the people who were there, like they sort of got a sense of this being like a bigger moment than an average music festival? Like, did it feel like...

the excitement of history being made or, and you know, that's a dramatic way of putting it, but that'd feel like that.

It did.

I,

and it's, it's funny cause that sounds dramatic, but I think having been there, it like that actually just does not sound dramatic in any sense of the word

because there

were, I feel like there were multiple layers of history being made, you know, like, or not even history, just big moments.

Like I was, as a journalist, I think this is fairly common.

We're at these places alone.

So, you know, you tend to just listen in on other people having fun.

And so there was a group of women, maybe in their forties, and they were just having the best time.

And amongst themselves, we're talking about like, how cool we actually get to go to a festival.

And like, we were so excited about bikini kill and the breeders and like all these women that you're not usually getting to see that many OG rock acts back to back to back on a bill.

Like people try to spread that out.

And like Olivia said, when she was talking about Lilith fair, like it used to be such a radical idea to even have women playing back to back at a festival or too many on a bill.

Um, So they were just so excited about that.

They called it the elder lady stage.

There were two stages of the day.

And

yeah,

I will say all the like, all the, you know, more veteran bands were on one.

But I think that worked for a lot of people who didn't want to ping pong.

Well, that was the next thing I actually did want to ask you about was just this sort of two-stage setup that they had.

It was one of the things that I thought was really cool that they had these two stages and scheduled it very purposefully so that the sets never ran over one another.

And sometimes that can be kind of the fun of a music festival.