Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray.Photo: ABC via Getty; Sam Morris/Getty
Olivia Rodrigois bringing famous friends and surprise covers to her Sour Tour.
On Thursday, the “Good 4 U” singer welcomed close friend and fellow musician Conan Gray onstage to performKaty Perry’s “The One That Got Away” during Rodrigo’s concert at Vancouver’s Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, and the pair found time to record a hilariousTikTokrecreating a memorable scene fromTwilightbackstage.
“We’re so happy we can be together today,” Rodrigo, 19, told attendees as she brought the 23-year-old “Heather” singer out to sing Perry’s multi platinum-certifiedTeenage Dreamcut, released in 2010 — when both performers were in elementary school.
“If you know me and Conan, you know that our favorite thing to do is get in the car and play music and sing along,” continued the “drivers license” musician, “so we thought we’d sing one of those songs for you guys.”
In the TikTok, which has amassed over nine million views on the platform, Rodrigo does a dramatic full-body twist before mouthing along to Edward’s exclamation, “As if you could outrun me!” Wearing a skirt printed with a photo ofKirsten Dunst’s Lux Lison character fromThe Virgin Suicides, the video then cuts to an edited, sped-up clip of her running around the concert hall floor.
Gray then appears on screen to lip-sync Edward’s next line, “As if you could fight me off!” before running through a backstage hallway and jokingly throwing punches at a large poster of Rodrigo in another edited, sped-up clip.
Thetwo musicians' high-profile friendshipdates back to at least March 2021, when they posted an Instagram photo listening toTaylor Swift’s"You All Over Me" from her re-recordedFearlessalbum. They’ve since shared videos jamming out to Swift, hung out at Rodrigo’s Sour Prom in June 2021, and spent New Year’s Eve together.
Last week, Rodrigo gave Gray a shout-out during her acceptance speech afterwinning best new artist at the 2022 Grammys. “Thank you to my amazing parents, and my best friends Iris, Maddy, and Conan. I love you guys,” theHigh School Musical: The Musical: The Seriesactress said onstage.
source: people.com
