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Olivia Rodrigo and The Cure's Robert Smith Debut Duet 'What's Wrong With Me' at Primavera Sound

Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith Exchange Praise After Surprise Primavera Collaboration

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Olivia Rodrigo performed a surprise set at Primavera festival, joined by Robert Smith of The Cure to debut their collaboration "what's wrong with me." Smith praised Rodrigo in a BBC Radio 6 Music interview, calling her a genuinely fantastic songwriter, singer, and performer, and expressing awe at how naturally she handles her craft.

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She's so good. I mean, she is genuinely fantastic as a songwriter and as a singer, as a performer.

And the band, everything about it, I genuinely love what she does.

I'm slightly in awe of how easy she finds it all. It's not really comparable to how I do things [...] It just comes across

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Over the weekend, Olivia Rodrigo performed a surprise set at Primavera and was joined by Robert Smith to debut their you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love collab “what’s wrong with me.” The pop star and the Cure frontman have been exchanging praise si

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