Olivia Rodrigo Previews Grammy Museum 'The Cure' Exhibit — SkimNews
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- Olivia Rodrigo appeared with Cameron Crowe at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles to preview 'Olivia Rodrigo: The Cure Unraveled,' a new exhibit opening Sept. 2 and running through Feb. 22, 2027, dedicated to her 'The Cure' music video.
- Rodrigo told Crowe that 'The Cure' was a feeling she'd been trying to articulate and forced herself to write despite not feeling up to it — calling the result 'one of my favorite songs I've ever made.'
- The exhibit features handmade props built from cardboard, yarn, and other tactile materials, including a skeleton X-ray, outfits, hospital beds, medical instruments, a handwritten chart, and decaying doorways — with artists logging hundreds to roughly a thousand hours on the build.
- Rodrigo said closing Daisy Chain Fields singing 'Landslide' with Stevie Nicks was the festival's peak, and that Nicks has sent her pictures of her dog and given her a necklace, calling the Fleetwood Mac singer 'one of the greatest songwriters that ever existed.'
- Cameron Crowe, who profiled Fleetwood Mac early in his Rolling Stone career after Rumours, drew a direct parallel between the band's universal appeal and Rodrigo's songwriting, saying she puts her feelings 'out there for people in a generous way.'
- After the conversation, Rodrigo performed five songs acoustically — 'Drop Dead,' 'Stupid Song,' 'Maggots for Brains,' 'Less,' and 'The Cure' — and shared that her mom reminded her she'd been inspired by the Grammy Museum since she was 13.
Why it matters: The exhibit marks museum-level validation for Rodrigo just three albums in, with the Grammy Museum dedicating a roughly five-and-a-half-month installation (Sept. 2–Feb. 22, 2027) to handmade props from a single music video. Crowe's explicit Fleetwood Mac comparison — drawn from his own early Rolling Stone reporting on the band — positions Rodrigo within an established pop-rock songwriting canon rather than a passing pop moment, while the Stevie Nicks duet signals a generational handoff she's actively accepting.
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