Good 4 her! Olivia Rodrigo turns MSG into a giant slumber party in sold-out headlining debut

nypost.com:

Olivia Rodrigo took the piano to sing her smash debut single “Drivers License” on Friday night — during the first of four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on her “Guts” World Tour — it was almost as if she had outgrown the song.Just three years ago — when the breakup ballad floored it to No.

1 in 2021, putting the pop ingenue on the fast track to three Grammys — Rodrigo had yet to graduate from Disney’s “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” So singing about the rite of passage of getting your driver’s license made her feel just like the 17-year-old that she was when she wrote, recorded and released her first of three chart-toppers.Flash forward to April 2024, and Rodrigo has made Disney a distant memory, leaving “High School Musical” in 2022, graduating from playing Radio City Music Hall on 2022’s “Sour” Tour to making her headlining debut at the big daddy of New York arenas.

And while she wasn’t even old enough to vote when she dropped “Drivers License,” she’s now 21, coming of drinking age on Feb.

20.“I had my first sip of alcohol in my life on my 21st birthday,” said Rodrigo, while making a winking reference to her grandmother being in the audience.Before launching into the “Guts” closer “Teenage Dream,” she continued, “I’m 21 now and just so happy.