Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour

As "Olivia Rodrigo: GUTA World Tour" (2024 release; 104 min.) opens, Olivia and her band and backup singers are backstage and about to come on. With the necessary pomp and circumstance, Olivia is the last to come on stage as the band crashes into "bad idea, right?". The concert hall (mostly teenage girls and young women) sings along with every lyric. Next comes "ballad of a homeschooled girl". At this point we are 10 minutes into the documentary.

Couple of comments: this was filmed over two nights at the brand new Intuit Dome in Los Angeles just 2 over months ago (August 20-21, 2024). I cannot recall a faster concert movie release ever. By then Olivia and her musicians and backup singers and dancers were a well-oiled machine, having been on the road since February, 2024. (Every single show on the GUTS tour has been sold out.) All the hits are there, and of course also all the power ballads. The best moment is about halfway through for a guest appearance from Chappell Roan, who joined Olivia to perform a duet of her hit 'Hot to Go!' I can't rate the movie higher as I was really annoyed with the endless editing (on some tracks, it cuts to a different camera literally every second ). But other than that, if you were not able to attend the GUTS tour in person, this concert documentary gives a great opportunity to see what you missed.

"Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Toru" started streaming om Netflix just a few days ago. Whether you are a die-hard fan of Olivia Rodrigo or just now are starting to explore her music, I'd readily suggest you check out this concert documentary, and draw your own conclusion.

I had high hopes for this concert movie, especially with Olivia Rodrigo being such a promising young artist on her second album. Unfortunately, I found it to be quite disappointing, largely due to the sound mixing. It feels like the production was more focused on showcasing the hysteria of her fans than highlighting her performance.

Throughout the film, the audience's screams overpower the music. Her voice is mixed so low that it's almost impossible to enjoy her singing, even after trying every equalization setting available. This issue completely undermines the experience-after all, this is a concert movie, where the music should be the star. Instead, I found myself watching a visual spectacle with subpar audio.

What makes this even more frustrating is that Olivia can sing, and from the faint glimpses of her voice buried under the crowd noise, she sounds great. It's baffling that the sound design obscures her talent. If this were an attempt to mask a lack of vocal ability, it might make sense-but that's not the case here.

Ultimately, I don't know if I'll even make it through to the end. The audio quality is just that bad. For a project meant to celebrate a musical artist, this felt like a major missed opportunity.

Olivia Rodrigo is a great performer who delivers exactly what you want from an artist. There's also a wonderful live band and the overall vibe is that of a rock concert. Alongside upbeat rock songs there's also an acoustic section and some stunning ballads. Olivia delivers excellent live vocals throughout that showcase her ability to really convey authentic emotion and feeling, something that's becoming increasingly rare in an age of AI music and loud backing tracks. It's refreshing to hear an artist truly sing from the heart, and even better when they're songs she's written herself.

I have to say that the GUTS World Tour movie is genuinely one of the best concert films I've watched in terms of making you actually feel like you're at the concert. I would really recommend just turning off the lights and turning up the volume while watching, and then just escaping into the GUTS tour experience.

You do hear the audience singing along at moments, but that's part of what makes you actually feel like you're there in person. I found myself singing along too. I thought songs like Logical and Making The Bed were also particularly beautifully shot, and there's a specific part that's so cinematic.

I can certainly see why critics have continually praised Olivia and the GUTS World Tour and I do think it translates well on screen. It's overall a very enjoyable concert film that's well worth watching (and re-watching).

I have very little experience with concert movies like this. But I enjoy the raw emotion that Olivia Rodrigo puts into her music and am impressed by her ability to sell out stadiums worldwide at 21 years old. So, I gave this GUTS World Tour concert doc a watch. I generally enjoyed the experience, with one nitpick that I'm simply not sure is unique to this sort of genre or not.

For a very basic overview, this concert is basically exactly what it says in the title--portraying the Los Angeles stop of Rodrigo's GUTS world tour, where she plays songs from that album and the previous SOUR record.

This is quite the high-octane, well-produced performance, with Rodrigo shifting effortlessly between her super high-energy songs and her piano/vocal ballads. Her ability to write these songs and take them on the road without a drop in quality is truly amazing--at any age, but especially 21!

That being said, I had one quibble with the entire production, that being the sound mix. I'm not sure if this is normal for these kinds of concert docs, but if you enjoy hearing fans screaming the songs instead of Olivia singing them you'll be just fine. Personally, I wish the sound mix would have shifted back and forth a bit more. Instead, it is very much a "put you in the crowd" experience as opposed to hearing Rodrigo's vocals.

Overall, though, I enjoyed this Netflix production even with my singular qualm about the audio choices. An Olivia Rodrigo concert is never dull, that is for sure.

I'm not the biggest Rodrigo fan but I do really enjoy a lot of her music and appreciate that she writes her own stuff. This concert was very curated for her fans which, if you're a fan of hers is great! If you're a casual fan it might seem a bit immature and tantrum throwing girlhood type show but that's kinda her thing. Very theatrical and overly dramatic so that's what she does and she does it well. She has a lot of banger songs. Her dancers are dressed interestingly. Love that her band is all girls and super punk rock. I feel like she's going for Alanis circa 2000s grunge which makes sense since alanis is one of her idols. Loved the chapell guest surprise.