{"id":488944,"date":"2026-06-12T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488944\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:24:08","slug":"listen-to-olivia-rodrigo-and-the-cures-robert-smith-team-up-on-gorgeous-heartbreaker-collab-whats-wrong-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488944\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Olivia Rodrigo and The Cure&#8217;s Robert Smith team up on gorgeous heartbreaker collab &#8216;What&#8217;s Wrong With Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pop star is set to showcase the album on her massive<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-announces-huge-uk-north-american-and-european-tour-with-wolf-alice-the-last-dinner-party-and-more-buy-tickets-3943372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> \u2018Unraveled Tour\u2019<\/a>. The trek will see her joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/wolf-alice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolf Alice<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-last-dinner-party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Dinner Party<\/a>\u00a0and more. Dates include multiple stops at The O2 in London, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-adds-extra-london-shows-to-tour-buy-tickets-3944306\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more shows have been added<\/a>\u00a0due to huge demand.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Folivia-rodrigo-tickets%2Fartist%2F5367175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Visit here<\/a>\u00a0for UK tickets and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Folivia-rodrigo-tickets%2Fartist%2F2836194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0for international tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Last year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-announces-live-from-glastonbury-2025-live-album-3890962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo released her live duets with Smith as part of her \u2018Live From Glastonbury 2025\u2019 album<\/a>. She had introduced the frontman by calling him \u201cperhaps the greatest songwriter to come out of England\u201d and \u201ca personal hero of mine\u201d.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-has-recently-been-inspired-by-the-cure-new-order-and-joy-division-3918969\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo has since said she\u2019d been \u201cdiving deeper into The Cure\u2019s discography\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Glastonbury 2025, the star shared some photos from Worthy Farm, including one of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-had-a-great-glastonbury-doing-shots-with-robert-smith-and-raving-to-pulp-3875456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hanging out and doing shots with Smith backstage<\/a>, and going to bed wearing a Cure T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-talks-watching-depeche-mode-and-the-cure-with-her-dad-3466257\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo spoke about going to watch The Cure and Depeche Mode live with her dad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/big-reads\/olivia-rodrigo-cover-interview-2021-sour-drivers-license-2940697\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to NME\u00a0in 2021<\/a>, Rodrigo said both her mother and father were \u201cmusic heads\u201d and had encouraged their daughter\u2019s artistic endeavours from an early age. \u201cI love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music,\u201d she explained at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Cure kicked off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-cure-announce-huge-summer-2026-uk-and-ireland-headline-shows-buy-tickets-3896283\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their massive European and UK summer tour<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-cure-air-rarities-and-classics-as-they-kick-off-2026-european-tour-at-primavera-sound-3949403\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a headline set at Primavera Sound last Friday<\/a> (June 5). They then topped the bill at North Festival in Portugal on Sunday (June 7).<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s live schedule for this year also includes stops at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-cure-lewis-capaldi-calvin-harris-lead-stacked-isle-of-wight-festival-2026-line-up-3895778\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isle Of Wight Festival<\/a>, Manchester\u2019s Wythenshawe Park, Dublin\u2019s Marlay Park, and a set at the Edinburgh Summer Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/robert-smith-says-the-cures-next-album-is-done-with-a-really-poppy-and-upbeat-separate-album-also-on-the-way-3949846\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smith has revealed the next Cure album is \u201cdone\u201d, with another \u201cpoppy\u201d record also on the horizon<\/a>. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t compare melodically to the stuff that Olivia does, but it\u2019s my idea of Cure Pop,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/olivia-rodrigo-responds-to-babydoll-dress-controversy-3947800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo has addressed the\u00a0\u201cdisturbing\u201d controversy around her new babydoll dress look, saying that it \u201cshows how we really normalise pedophilia in our culture\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pop star is set to showcase the album on her massive \u2018Unraveled Tour\u2019. The trek will see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,131,46,409,875,1548],"class_list":["post-488944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-indie","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}