Olivia Rodrigo defended after Glastonbury 2025 closing headline slot branded ‘biggest mistake’
And just like that, it's all over.
And just like that, Glastonbury 2025 is over following an electric closing headline set from American pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
However, viewers have mixed opinions.
As the Grammy-winning star’s set was broadcast live on BBC, The Prodigy performed on the Other Stage to a packed crowd.
Clashes are inevitable at festivals, of course, but many were left raging by the booking, branding Olivia’s slot the event’s ‘biggest mistake’ and demanding that The Prodigy were given her stage.
‘Who was responsible for putting Olivia Rodrigo over the Prodigy on the pyramid stage? you just made the biggest mistake of your career’, blasted X user @karmasan23.
‘The prodigy should have been on the pyramid stage. End of’, declared @Katielainton.
Olivia Rodrigo closed Glastonbury 2025 in electric style (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images) Fans of The Prodigy reckon they should’ve had the Pyramid Stage instead (Picture: James Veysey/Shutterstock) The Grammy-winning pop star duetted with The Cure’s Robert Smith (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)Consequently, fans of 22-year-old Olivia – the second-youngest headliner ever to Billie Eilish in 2022, then aged 20 – came out in force to defend her, with several critics also admitting they had happily been proven wrong.
‘Prodigy are great but, I think by the looks of the crowd, people know who Olivia Rodrigo is … they’re singing every word’, tweeted @Jack21120509 alongside a snap of the 200,000-strong crowd, the largest of Olivia’s career.
‘I gotta admit – I was sceptical about Olivia Rodrigo as a Glastonbury headliner. Felt too early in her career. I have been proved wrong. Massively’, confessed @IsonCallum.
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‘Olivia Rodrigo’s crowd is the purest form of what music’s meant to be: young people screaming their hearts out for someone who gets them. Hope the older crowd watching remembers: they were that once, too’, penned @yazzler.
During her set, Olivia performed hits including Vampire, Drivers License, and Good 4 U. She also brought out The Cure’s Robert Smith, again, to mixed reactions from the crowd, for a duet of Friday, I’m in Love.
The 22-year-old is one of the festival’s youngest headliners ever (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images) Sir Rod Stewart brought out Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood during his Legends Slot today (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)Speaking on the mic, Olivia told fans that the gig was a ‘dream come true’.
Her set followed a Legends Slot from Sir Rod Stewart, in which he brought out Mick Hucknall, Ronnie Wood, and Lulu.
Last night, Neil Young closed the Pyramid Stage, and, on Friday night, Matty Healy and his 1975 bandmates headlined.
Catch up on all the action from the weekend below…
