Olivia Rodrigo held her much-anticipated women-led Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine, CA final evening. The inaugural occasion raised $10 million for ladies’s rights nonprofits, and Melinda French Gates is doubling that quantity with a $10 million donation by her charity Pivotal. At a press convention on Friday, Rodrigo mentioned the artists and activists collaborating in Daisy Chain gave her hope amid the present “regression of ladies’s rights.”
The lineup was unfold throughout two phases with no overlapping units. Marigold Stage hosted Quiet Mild, Rachel Chinouriri, Bikini Kill, Rubbish, former Rodrigo openers the Breeders, and future Rodrigo openers Die Spitz. Dandelion Stage had Eli, Santigold, Devon Once more (added after KATSEYE had been sidelined as a result of a member sprained her ankle), Mitski, Doechii, Chappell Roan (additionally a former Rodrigo opener), and the Olivia Rodrigo & Particular Company headline set.
At Nice Park, the “Daisy Lane” stroll path was plastered with messages and quotes highlighting essential milestones for ladies over the previous 130 years, whereas the Philanthropy Village had cubicles for the fest’s ten nonprofit companions, together with Deliberate Parenthood and the Nationwide Ladies’s Legislation Heart. There was an excessive warmth warning for the world, and Daisy Chain was ready. There have been additionally activations for Rodrigo’s newest model companions, LEGO and Taco Bell.
Celebrities taking within the day included Drew Barrymore, Rachel Zegler, Conan Grey, Emma Watson, Victoria Justice, Wallows, Melissa Auf der Maur, Olivia Wilde, Ella Emhoff, and Mike Shinoda. And though KATSEYE did not carry out, members Lara Raj, Yoonchae Jeung, and Megan Skiendiel (the injured one) made a shock look earlier than Devon Once more to introduce one of many nonprofits, Baby2Baby.
“Olivia Rodrigo referred to as me on my cellphone, personally, and was like, ‘Would you do that?'” Mitski advised the group about her no-brainer determination to take part. “I used to be like, ‘Um, okay Olivia Rodrigo. Um, positive, massive pageant benefitting ladies and women? Yeah, I assume I am going to discover time!” She added, “I really feel like we must always do that yearly, proper?” Shirley Manson additionally famous that Rodrigo referred to as her personally, which the Rubbish frontwoman referred to as “a baller transfer.”
Though she did not sing any new songs, Roan did debut a brand new bob, and her outfit was apparently impressed by Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fhloston flight attendant uniforms within the film The Fifth Factor. When Roan playfully calls out unengaged concertgoers it is normally throughout “HOT TO GO!,” however final evening’s callout got here throughout “The Subway.” “Standing along with your arms folded?!” she joked a couple of man within the crowd. “Are you grumpy? Do not be grumpy, it is Daisy Chain!”
“This authorities hates us and needs us lifeless,” Kathleen Hanna remarked throughout Bikini Kill’s set. “They do not give a shit about anyone’s healthcare. They do not care if we’re dying in parking plenty of curable diseases. They do not give a shit. They do not care if our rights are taken away. They’re ripping individuals off the streets. I am not gonna inform you all of the unhealthy issues! However I’m gonna say it makes it onerous for me in my physique typically to have time. ‘Trigger it is onerous to show it off. And I used to be pondering that on the best way right here. I used to be like, ‘What a present.’ What a present we’ve got to have the ability to play for you. What a present Olivia has given all of us to do that pageant.”
Hanna is one in all Rodrigo’s heroes, a connection the Bikini Kill legend mentioned in a Stereogum interview a number of years in the past:
My child did meet Olivia Rodrigo, who received us tickets to her live performance. I used to be on tour, so I could not go. [Olivia] mentioned one thing very nice about me to my child. However he mentioned, “Mother, you are still not cool.”
I used to be like, “Okay, I simply wish to ask you this. I received you and your pal backstage on the Olivia Rodrigo live performance, and she or he mentioned I used to be one in all her heroes.” And he is like, “She additionally mentioned she cherished my hair.” And I used to be like, “Okay, can we simply not discuss how she cherished your hair proper now and simply discuss I am one in all Olivia Rodrigo’s heroes? May you please simply let that sink in? Am I cool now?” And he is like, “Not likely.”
For “Insurgent Lady” (which Rodrigo lip-synced in a TikTok because the fest started), the band introduced out Irvine’s personal Emily’s Sassy Lime, a fellow riot grrrl band that fashioned after seeing Bikini Kill in ’93.
Rodrigo’s set included round half of her distinctive new album you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love and the reside debut of her Handmaid’s Story-inspired loosie “serena pleasure,” Stereogum’s present reigning #1 Tune Of The Week.
The promised particular visitors becoming a member of Rodrigo had been Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks, each of whom had been introduced upfront, and Alanis Morissette, who was not. Morissette was there rather than Karen O, who Rodrigo mentioned could not make it due to a household emergency.
McLachlan, after all, co-founded her personal women-led pageant within the late ’90s. “With out Lilith Truthful, there could be no Daisy Chain,” Rodrigo mentioned whereas introducing the Canadian pop-rock icon (who got here straight from Noah Kahan’s Vancouver present). Collectively they did “Constructing A Thriller” and “Angel,” each from the 1997 album Surfacing. The latter was devoted to Dolly Parton, who handed away on Tuesday.
Rodrigo and Morissette have appeared collectively earlier than. In 2021 they interviewed one another for Rolling Stone and the next yr, the Jagged Little Tablet star joined Rodrigo to duet “You Oughta Know” in Los Angeles.
“I hearken to Jagged Little Tablet once I’m feeling, like, I do not know what to say or like, who am I?” Rodrigo advised Kathleen Hanna on the Music Makes Us podcast final yr “For some cause that album, identical to, each a part of what makes a human being a human being, it feels prefer it’s encapsulated in that document.”
At Daisy Chain, they did “Ironic.”
Lastly, Stevie Nicks got here to finish the evening with “Landslide,” one in all a number of Fleetwood Mac songs which have develop into completely large with Gen Z (it simply debuted on the Scorching 100 this yr, 51 years after its launch). They did a candy dance collectively within the center. Sharing a video of the efficiency on Instagram, Sandra Bullock teased the pair’s “angel voices” for the soundtrack of the upcoming film Sensible Magic 2.
“Thanks a lot to all of the numerous individuals who believed within the imaginative and prescient of Daisy Chain,” Rodrigo mentioned afterwards. “Thanks to the nonprofits who work tirelessly to make our world a greater place. And thanks principally to you guys. You made this occur. You might be so essential and your voices matter a lot.”
Then she shared some information: Thanks a lot, good evening, and I’ll see you subsequent yr!”
“She jogs my memory a number of me once I was her age, 100 years in the past,” Nicks concluded. “And I am considerably awestruck that she might do all this as a result of it is so onerous, you haven’t any concept, placing one thing along with all these individuals, every little thing. And he or she’s finished it with this grace and this loopy, loopy vitality that she has. And I advised her, ‘Do not ever give that up and do not let anyone change you…’
“So help her, come and be part of her ladies’s rights factor. All of us will. And he or she’s very particular. Take her to your coronary heart. I’ve.”
UPDATE: Here is what Rodrigo posted on Instagram on Sunday evening…
seeing daisy chain come to fruition yesterday was the best pleasure of my profession. riot grrrl mosh pits. friendship bracelets being made on the grass. younger women on their dads shoulders. I’m nonetheless in a little bit of disbelief that it occurred and I nonetheless really feel incapable of correctly expressing the gratitude that I really feel for each one that believed on this imaginative and prescient and fought so onerous to make it a actuality.
final evening after the pageant was over and everybody had gone dwelling, my mates and I ran across the grounds and tried to course of all that we had simply witnessed. we ended our evening of frolicking at yoko onos ‘want tree’ set up on the entrance of the pageant. it was probably the most lovely paintings (yoko if ur studying this I like you) the place pageant goers wrote down one thing they hoped for on a tag and tied it onto a department of a tree. we learn so lots of them. some had been foolish like I hope my canine lives perpetually or I hope my hair grows longer and so forth. however by and enormous nearly each tag mentioned the identical factor. everybody hoped for the world to be extra peaceable, all of them hoped that the individuals they cherished had been pleased, all of them hoped to make a distinction. it made me so emotional and I noticed that was precisely why daisy chain meant a lot to me. the paintings jogged my memory of how we’re all rather more alike than we’re totally different. and the way deep down, all of us simply wish to assist one another and make the world a greater place. yesterday, daisy chain felt like simply that. a collective hope that issues can get higher and a reminder of how a lot we actually care about individuals on the finish of the day. thanks to everybody who got here yesterday who confirmed me that pleasure is part of the answer. till subsequent yearrrrr ????
