Sheryl Crow Opens Up About Olivia Rodrigo Friendship

Sheryl Crow has a buddy in Olivia Rodrigo. Whereas chatting about her new album Evolution on Late Evening With Seth Meyers on Thursday night time (March 28), the 62-year-old singer-songwriter opened up about her bond with the “Drivers License” singer.

“I met her at Billboard Ladies in Music and I simply actually preferred her,” Crow recalled. “I’d already had her file and I liked the best way she wrote. It’s very punk, it’s just like the Breeders meets Deborah Harry.”

Each ladies have been current on the 2022 Billboard Ladies in Music ceremony, the place the “Robust Sufficient” artist introduced Rodrigo with Lady of the Yr. “Sheryl, I’m such an enormous fan of you and your songwriting and I’m so grateful that you simply’re right here,” the previous Disney star stated in her acceptance speech. “It actually means the world.”

In November, it was Rodrigo’s flip to point out up for her buddy, with the pair performing “If It Makes You Pleased” collectively on the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame ceremony in honor of Crow’s 2023 induction. Since then, the duo have sung the 1996 hit side-by-side on the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and, most not too long ago, at one of many “Vampire” artist’s Guts World Tour reveals.

Backstage on the RRHOF ceremony, Crow informed Billboard of her reference to Rodrigo: “All I can say is I paid homage to the ladies that have been earlier than me, and I understand how a lot they imply to me. I don’t take it flippantly in any respect. I nonetheless look to them — my friendship with Stevie Nicks is real, however I’m nonetheless in awe of her. Yeah, I don’t take it flippantly.”

“I’m so impressed with how right down to earth and collectively she is, like unfazed by it,” Crow added of Rodrigo to Meyers. “I’ve gotten to know her since then, and I am keen on her.”

Launched Friday (March 29), Evolution marks Crow’s first album since 2019’s Threads. Rodrigo additionally not too long ago unveiled a brand new set, dropping the deluxe model of her Billboard 200-topping sophomore file Guts final week.

Watch Crow’s Late Evening With Seth Meyers interview above.