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5 Highlights from Night One of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour at Kia Forum

Written by on August 14, 2024

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Nearly six months into her whirlwind Guts World Tour, Olivia Rodrigo finally landed in her hometown of Los Angeles on Tuesday night (Aug. 13) to perform the first of four dates at the Kia Forum, which she’ll follow with two shows at the soon-to-open Intuit Dome on Aug. 20 and 21.

“Oh boy, I’ve been looking forward to this show for a really, really long time,” said Rodrigo as she took the stage, eliciting a cacophony of screams from the sold-out crowd. “Hometown show, baby. It’s very, very special.”

Rodrigo’s first L.A. concert marked the beginning of the end of the North American leg for her current tour. After a nearly month-long break, the megastar will head to Asia in mid-September for a series of dates in Thailand, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore before wrapping the globe-spanning trek in Australia with four shows each in Melbourne and Sydney.

Having already performed the show dozens of times over, Rodrigo and her touring operation are by this point a well-oiled machine, and it showed on Tuesday night. The first Forum concert featured slick, at times “Brutal”-ly effective songs from Rodrigo’s two blockbuster albums, with the star backed by a powerhouse band and eight dancers whose thematic routines dramatized the singer-songwriter’s potent lyrics (one particularly memorable bit of choreography during Rodrigo’s performance of Guts track “Pretty Isn’t Pretty” revolved around hand mirrors).

Throughout, Rodrigo demonstrated a knack for connecting with every section of the audience at the 17,500-capacity venue. This was most notable during a stretch that saw her perform “Logical” and “Enough for You” from a floating crescent moon that revolved slowly around the arena, creating a sense of intimacy with every segment of the fawning crowd.

Below, you can check out five highlights from the sold-out show and a full setlist.

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