Hi! Welcome back to another summer special catchup post. (Wow I'm only one day behind now!) So, the absolutely insane Guts World Tour officially ended on July 1st, and Olivia Rodrigo's summer festival run is about to come to a close. Olivia just performed at Lollapalooza Paris and is performing at festivals through August 3rd. This is a similar style of post to my Eras Tour post (but actually a much better post since I actually got to experience the concert firsthand rather than just through videos, and it's not eight months late) where I'll pretty much be reflecting on my favorite performances on the tour, as well as some revised predictions for what this third era might look like.
My firsthand experience as a Guts World Tour attendee, sixteen months later
I tend to avoid talking about my personal life on here, but you may remember me mentioning a few times that I have seen Olivia Rodrigo live in concert, and it was insane. You may remember my Olivia Rodrigo ranking post where I mentioned that I was listening to Olivia Rodrigo on shuffle in the car before the concert and Deja Vu kept playing, and I joked that I was getting deja vu... well, then there was the concert itself, which was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
First of all, Chappell Roan opened, and she pleasantly surprised me with her set. I had already known a few Chappell Roan songs like Kaleidoscope, Red Wine Supernova, and Casual, but I didn't even know how huge it was to see her at the time because I saw her before she became one of the top artists of the decade. A lot of the audience was just learning the Hot To Go dance for the first time, which seems crazy now.
Then Olivia came on, and she opened with an angsty mashup of Bad Idea Right and Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl, followed by some piano songs. Her emotional performances of Vampire and Drivers License were two of my favorite performances of the night. Obviously Teenage Dream was really powerful, and I was honestly surprised at how loud the crowd was during that song considering how underrated I think it is. The tour just made me love that song even more, especially when paired with the intimate live piano and the video from one of her earliest performances.
There were many stellar performances that followed, including the acoustic guitar songs that she performed while riding the most famous moon within Earth's atmosphere, and a highly unexpected song that I was one of the first people ever to hear - Obsessed, weeks before its official release. As the concert came to a close, Olivia still hadn't performed Good 4 U or Get Him Back, and the entire crowd was chanting "Get Him Back". Honestly I was worried she wouldn't perform Good 4 U since the crowd wanted Get Him Back so badly. But sure enough they were both encores, and they were both fantastic. And the iconic confetti at the end! All I can say is... she got us good, she got us really good.
Wow. It's been almost a year and a half, and Olivia still has two shows left to perform in 2025. The Guts World Tour is one of the biggest tours of the decade... but the real question is what do we predict will happen in this third era?
New predictions for OR3
Some of you may remember UFOs, which was one of the installments in my 12 days of Christmas series. I wouldn't call it an actual "theory", but it was an album concept paired with a few very general predictions. Now that we have more information about a potential new era for Olivia, I have more specific predictions.
There is a common theory among the Livies that her next album will be called Luck. There was the infamous birthday post captioned "I feel like the luckiest girl alive!!!" with a possibly intentional three exclamation points, constant use of ladybugs and polka dots in posts and outfits, the Guts anniversary photo in front of a rainbow, and most recently, on a Glastonbury show of the Guts Tour just last month, where she said "as LUCK would have it, I really like English boys".
It's already been heavily theorized that OR3 will be a love-focused album due to her closing the Guts era with So American, a lyrical departure and love song about her London boy Louis Partridge, and this quote is just further reinforcement of that. Since Sour was mainly about falling out of love, and Guts was mostly about trying to recover from the fallout, it would make sense to have an album about falling back in love. I think an entire album of songs like So American, further exploring being in love and all the feelings that come along with it, would be cool to get from Olivia.
As for the "color" of the era, after Sour's light blue and purple color scheme and Guts's deeper, darker purple, there seems to be a theory that the third album will be red, due to the recently frequent red outfits, ladybug imagery, and associations with love and passion. I imagine this album being accompanied with rich burgundy visuals and darker shades of red, and most likely, Olivia's purple imagery will run through this album alongside a red color palette.
And finally, the question we're all trying to figure out the answer to... when will it release? Well, I don't really have a strong theory for this one. Of course, we know the album has been in production for months. But... I'm not expecting an album anytime soon, since Olivia's still actively performing. She should have some time to rest after this incredibly long world tour, and release the album whenever she's ready. Right now it's looking like autumn 2025 is most likely, but not much has been confirmed yet. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!
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