Olivia Rodrigo closed out Glastonbury 2025 in a way no one saw coming: duetting with Robert Smith on two Cure classics and cementing her place as one of the few pop stars who can genuinely pull off a Pyramid Stage headline slot with teeth.
Just three years on from her Other Stage debut, Rodrigo returned to Worthy Farm as a fully-fledged festival heavyweight – and she didn’t waste a second proving it. Kicking things off with a snarling, guitar-drenched version of ‘Obsessed’, she set the tone early: this wasn’t going to be a safe, pop-polished run-through.
‘Vampire’ landed hard, as did a surprisingly emotional mid-set moment during ‘Drivers License’ that had a sea of Gen Zs and older millennials quietly weeping into their overpriced pints. But then came the swerve.
Out walked Robert Smith – eyeliner, mop and all – to a stunned crowd. “Probably the greatest songwriter to come out of England,” Rodrigo called him, before launching into a gorgeous, fuzzy take on ‘Friday I’m In Love’ and an arms-aloft rendition of ‘Just Like Heaven’. A crossover nobody could’ve predicted, and one that worked far better than it had any right to.
From there, it was a no-brakes ride through the Rodrigo songbook: ‘Good 4 U’, ‘Jealousy, Jealousy’, ‘Brutal’, and a thunderous closer in ‘Get Him Back!’. Yes, it leaned pop, but it was loaded with enough distortion, sweat and intent to stand proudly alongside the best Glasto headliners.
Say what you want about pop at Worthy Farm, but Olivia Rodrigo just shut the doubters up.
Her Pyramid set capped a weekend that’s seen chaos (Kneecap, Bob Vylan), comebacks (Capaldi, Lorde, Pulp), and curveballs (Skepta filling in for Deftones). But in terms of sheer moment-making though Olivia Rodrigo might’ve just walked away with the whole thing.
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