
As anyone who’s seen it will attest, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour is not your typical pop show. Sure, there are costume changes, bright lights and dancers, but there’s also a live band that plays loud. Or, to put it another way, Guts rocks.
As the tour draws to a close - aside from some rearranged shows in Manchester next year, that is - Rodrigo and her team have been telling Billboard how they created one of the most popular and best-received live experiences of 2024, and it turns out that the woman at the centre of was planning it even as she wrote the album that gave it its name.