Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her The Unraveled Tour in Hartford, Connecticut, on Friday night, playing 26 songs across four chapters of the show. The concert at PeoplesBank Arena was built around the four seasons, with Rodrigo performing new tracks from her latest album alongside older favorites from SOUR and her earlier work.
The set opened with Rodrigo surrounded by flowers, with the stage backdrop shifting through Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. She played electric guitar and piano throughout, and she stepped out to the barricade to sing directly with fans during “Deja Vu.” Her dress literally melted away in the rain at one point in the show.
Opening With New Songs
The set began with two tracks from you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, Rodrigo’s third album. She started with “drop dead” and followed with “u + me = <3.” Then came “so american” and “good 4 u,” both from the same record.
The Spring section closed with “deja vu,” which Rodrigo would return to at the end of the night.
Summer Tracks And The GUTS Singles
Summer brought new tracks “my way” and “serena joy” together with the GUTS EP’s “bad idea right?” and “ballad of a homeschooled girl.” The Summer Twilight section added “vampire” and “purple.”
That sequence mixes brand-new material with songs from her early career.
Autumn Hits The Hardest
Autumn was the densest part of the set. Rodrigo performed “stupid song,” “maggots for brains,” “traitor,” “begged,” and “cigarette smoke.” That stretch runs five songs deep, and it sits at the center of the night’s running order.
Winter Closes With SOUR Favorites
Winter featured “honeybee,” the SOUR tracks “favorite crime” and “drivers license,” “less,” and “the cure,” the song whose lyric gave the tour its name. The SOUR material lands in the final quarter of the show.
For the closing return to Spring, Rodrigo played “deja vu” and “all-american bitch” before ending on “expectations.”
The Season Structure
The four-season structure was the show’s framing device. Rodrigo opened surrounded by flowers, moved through Summer’s backdrop changes, and ended the main set in Winter before returning to Spring for the encore.
The dress-melting moment came during one of the seasonal transitions, though the source does not specify which chapter it occurred in. The effect was described as literal melting in the rain.
A Second Hartford Date
Rodrigo will play a second show at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford on Saturday, September 26th. After that, the tour moves to multi-night stops in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Philadelphia, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn before heading overseas in the spring.
Tickets for the majority of dates have already sold out. Fans can check our guide to getting last-minute tickets for the remaining available shows.
Recent Album And Festival Activity
Rodrigo unveiled you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love back in June. Since then, she launched her own Daisy Chain Fields festival, released the one-off charity single “serena joy,” and got her own flavor of Baja Blast at Taco Bell.
She was also announced to play the Los Angeles edition of iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball on December 4th.
The Set In Order
The show follows a clear structure across its four chapters:
- Rodrigo opened with flowers and the backdrop shifting through Spring.
- She moved through Summer, bringing in the GUTS EP tracks.
- Autumn delivered the five-song stretch of heavier material.
- Winter brought the SOUR tracks and the song whose lyric gave the tour its name.
- The encore returned to Spring.
The setlist is long — 26 songs — and it covers Rodrigo’s entire catalog. The season structure gives the show a visual throughline that would otherwise be hard to sustain across that many tracks. The dress-melting moment is a theatrical touch that makes the setlist feel less like a dry list of songs and more like a show.
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