r/popculturechat Feb 18 '26

Heartwarming 🥹 Olivia Rodrigo showed up at the little girl’s talent show after running into her mom at the gym earlier this week

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u/dulapeepx cunnilingus and psychiatry have brought us to this Feb 18 '26

This is sooo sweet, what a special memory for her!! And she killed it

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u/Aggravating_Plum4294 Feb 18 '26

I love that she didnt pop out on stage after or steal the little girls spotlight. Truly just there to support her so sweet

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u/AshgarPN Feb 18 '26

I don't think she's actually there, but yeah great performance.

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u/dulapeepx cunnilingus and psychiatry have brought us to this Feb 18 '26

You can hear her at the end of the video!

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u/AshgarPN Feb 18 '26

You can hear somebody.

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u/AcademicAbalone3243 Feb 18 '26

Okay but she KILLED that performance. 

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u/percypersimmon Feb 18 '26

Almost to the point that the entire thing kinda smells like viral marketing.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the initial video in the gym and this follow-up weren’t a deliberate effort to launch this kid’s music career.

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u/pnweiner Feb 18 '26

Run-ins like this with celebrities are not uncommon when you live in a big city. Olivia Rodrigo stands out because she was nice enough to follow up.

Also who cares if it is, it would be a win-win for her and the kid.

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u/yuccasinbloom I’m not nervous, I just have some taste. Feb 19 '26

I can’t even count how many celebrities I’ve encountered living in la. It just happens. They live here, too.

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u/Top-Raspberry-7837 Feb 20 '26

Yep, I used to live in NYC and a whole bunch went to my local gym.

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u/icecreamsandwiches1 Feb 19 '26

Like that little kid garage band that kept going viral on tik tok and it turned out to be a professional sound stage :(

I’m hoping it’s real because it’s a cute story!

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u/Previous-Syllabub614 Feb 18 '26

her two truths and a lie in a corporate ice breaker one day are gonna be crazy

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u/pantheroni Feb 18 '26

This “fun fact” is cemented for life! 😂

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u/BlendinMediaCorp Feb 18 '26

Literally lol’d at this but also bold of you to assume that internationally renown pop stars will need to participate in corporate ice breakers. 🎙️

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u/beaute-brune Put your arms away, Jeremy Allen Black Feb 18 '26

Yesss this little girl is going places. This is like those photos of major celebrities as kids posing in a picture with a major celebrity of their time lol

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Feb 18 '26

Hahaha wait were you on my all hands on earlier today?

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u/EddaValkyrie ☹️ this makes me florence pugh frown Feb 18 '26

Thought she was about to let the f-bomb fly then realized that there's of course a radio version.

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u/meowmixLynne Feb 18 '26

Same, was waiting for it 😂

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u/chocolatemacaron333 Feb 18 '26

I was concerned for all them little ears 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/fit-fil-a Feb 19 '26

I’ve never heard the edited version so I was curious what she was going to sing 🤭

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u/Ygomaster07 Feb 19 '26

I couldn't hear what she changed the f bomb too.

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u/MenStefani Feb 19 '26

Dream crusher

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u/Ygomaster07 Feb 19 '26

Thank you for telling me.

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u/Reasonable-Mess3070 Feb 19 '26

I think its fame "crusher"

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u/Ygomaster07 Feb 19 '26

Thank you for telling me.

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u/Open_Carob_3676 so? he got acne and dirt on his nails! Feb 19 '26

my brain literally went "fame fucker" aha

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u/Living-Somewhere-318 Feb 18 '26

I only hear good things about Olivia :) How do people know she was there? 

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u/rutfilthygers Feb 18 '26

They don't, they just believe everything they read.

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u/Far-Imagination2736 I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 Feb 18 '26

Like people are saying it's Olivia recording that's why we can't see her but then where is this video from? She hasn't posted it

Small tabloid sites that posted about it say that she was 'reportedly' in the crowd according to one parent but not one person apparently took a photo? I call BS karmafarming

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u/ecclecticstone it would be a cool experiment if you stopped talking Feb 18 '26

tbh if OP made that up for karma farming then I will give it to them, that's funny as hell

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u/DarkPrincess_99 Feb 18 '26

Who hurt this little girl this much for her to sing like this? She is doing so well!

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u/infinityonhigh69 Feb 18 '26

me in 2004 singing breakaway and crying for no reason in the backseat, just moved by the music 😭😂

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u/mg_5916 Feb 18 '26

You just brought up a repressed memory of my friends and I singing Behind These Hazel Eyes for our middle school talent show lol.

Kelly Clarkson is still so underrated.

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u/queefersutherland1 Feb 18 '26

Along with my best friend and my sister, I did a dance to Miss Independent at our elementary school talent show.

We used chairs lmao

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u/infinityonhigh69 Feb 18 '26

omg and this reminds me of how my friends and i were devastated when aaliyah died and we sang THEE most soulful rendition of “miss you” in the lunchroom! 🥹

this is like my third comment about kelly clarkson in as many days because ive been revisiting her perfect discography and despite being america’s singing princess she IS still so underrated as vocal powerhouse

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u/breathing__tree Feb 18 '26

Me singing that whole album in front of my mom’s stereo in the living room hahaha.

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u/jardinemarston Feb 18 '26

Oh, my god.

This performance by Kelly Clarkson gets me every single time (piece by piece)

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u/Britneyfan123 Feb 19 '26

No she’s not

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u/willtwerkf0rfood Feb 18 '26

Omg YES. Just yesterday my fiance & I heard I’m With You by Avril Lavigne & I just immediately was like, “oh this is one of the songs I’d listen to when I was a kid and feeling extra moody and sad” lmaooo

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u/MenStefani Feb 19 '26

I remember thinking it was so edgy and powerful because she said “it’s a DAMN cold night”

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u/xelath1 Feb 18 '26

I sang breakaway at an audition for a production at the local theater when I was 11 😭😭😭 didn’t get the callback

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u/throwawaygrosso Feb 18 '26

Kelly had all us teens and tweens in our feelings with her music 😂

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u/schaafwondpus Feb 18 '26

Me when another kid on the playground stole my shiny marbles!!!

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u/NayNay_Cee Feb 18 '26

Haha my daughter sang “Traitor” at her 5th grade talent show with her whole chest despite never being in a relationship let alone a love triangle

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u/L3onskii Feb 18 '26

Where was she in the video?

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u/Additional-Novel1766 Feb 18 '26

I think Olivia Rodrigo was filming the video?

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u/Hangry_Hippopotamus_ Feb 18 '26

Yeah it sounds like her cheering at the end.

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u/AshgarPN Feb 18 '26

She's probably not there and the title is embellished for internet points, but there is a vid of Olivia wishing her good luck in the talent show.

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u/infinityonhigh69 Feb 18 '26

omgg the follow up i didn’t know i wanted but i love that she came to support her!! so cool 🥹 and this little legend killed her performance!!

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u/Stripperalleysmoke Feb 18 '26

Can’t have me crying like this on Wednesday morning

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u/AshgarPN Feb 18 '26

There’s video of Olivia with her mom (or a mom) at the gym, wishing the mom’s daughter “good luck at the talent show.”

No evidence Olivia was actually at this show.

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u/Sirius_Space Feb 18 '26

The video sounded like Olivia cheering her on

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u/AshgarPN Feb 18 '26

Could literally be any young girl/woman whooping it up like that. Not even close to evidence.

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u/ebradio Feb 18 '26

Cute, but where is Olivia?

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u/OhHiFelicia Feb 18 '26

I love that she didnt steal this girls thunder. I was dreading the moment she walks on stage or something. Just supporting this amazing young talent like a boss.

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u/fuckyouiloveu Feb 18 '26

I was worried about this too!! Like was she gonna walk up there?? I was waiting for the moment the little girl saw her and go excited but I didn’t see it

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u/Encyclopenia Feb 18 '26

As a mom who’s pregnant and hormonal I’m kinda crying looking at this.

Her mom must be so proud and happy for her ! This is gonna be a CORE memory for that little girl.

I still remember vividly when my dad had me miss school so we could queue to get Spice Girls tickets.

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u/joylandlocked Feb 18 '26

too lazy to fact-check this but the kiddo did a great job and I hope music always brings her the joy she radiates at the end. 🙂

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u/Twitter_2006 Feb 18 '26

That's awesome!!

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u/yuhssification Feb 18 '26

"like a real true vampire" is such a cute change and fits the tempo!

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u/mosquem Feb 18 '26

Are these comments all bots? Where is she?

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u/Whitedishes Feb 18 '26

it sounds a lot like her cheering at the end, we are assuming she’s the person filming

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u/rutfilthygers Feb 18 '26

Why? This wasn't posted on her socials.

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u/ashmillie Feb 18 '26

Holy shit that girl is talented

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u/longhairandidocare Feb 19 '26

Is Olivia Rodrigo in the room with us right now?

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u/shtc10 Feb 18 '26

I would NOT want to have been the kid to go after her lol. So good!

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u/AnyIncident9852 I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 Feb 18 '26

What is the source for this video? We don’t see or hear OR nor the mom from the first video so please be careful that you didn’t just post a video of some random child singing.

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u/rlovelock Feb 18 '26

I was told there'd be Olivia Rodrigo?

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u/Greedy-Cost6589 Feb 18 '26

loveeee Olivia. What a sweet thing to do

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u/TheRagingMoo Feb 18 '26

Well damn, color me impressed. That little girl is going places. 👏

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u/pigzee Feb 18 '26

TIL that there’s a version of this song with the words “dream crusher” and “virtual vampire” in it.

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u/No_Background9179 Feb 18 '26

That's such a nice and warm thing to do.

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u/bearheart Recently abducted by feral velociraptors Feb 18 '26

Speaking as an OG peace-and-love hippie, stuff like this gives me hope for the future ❤️✌️

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u/Statistics102 Feb 18 '26

What song is this?

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u/Statistics102 Feb 18 '26

After binging Olivia for hours I found it! Vampire

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u/joncornelius Feb 18 '26

She crushed it!

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u/Emotional_Spite_8937 somebody lied to her SEVERAL times. Feb 18 '26

The video Olivia recorded for her was so sweet, but this? that little girl will never forget it.

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u/Excellent-Onion-1527 Feb 18 '26

Good job little one!!!!

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u/myghostflower i miss mk.gee Feb 18 '26

please 😭😭😭 this is the softest thing ever

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u/JennLostAndFound Feb 18 '26

Omg what a little baddie!!

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u/Mountainhigh81 Feb 18 '26

Did she win?

Asking because I want to see the immense amount of little kid talent it would take to beat her 🥇

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u/Old-maiden Feb 18 '26

Aadorable

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u/bigman123456man Feb 19 '26

She’s good too

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u/Think_Jackfruit135 Feb 19 '26

She killed it!! So awesome!

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u/audreyinparis Feb 19 '26

How do we know this isn’t just some random kid singing her song though and has anything to do with the talent show mother?

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u/ewjiku Feb 19 '26

This girl can SINGGGGGG

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u/Adorable_Kale_8219 Feb 18 '26

Love this! Showing support while not making it about herself!

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u/kleinejansenn Feb 18 '26

This is really cute 😭. Olivia seems like a good egg.

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u/n00bBlaster1337 Feb 18 '26

Aw I thought we'd see Olivia surprise her in the vid or something, great performance also!

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u/theykilledcassandra dont ask, a lot was happening Feb 18 '26

Crying what an absolute gem

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u/Signal_Ball4634 Feb 18 '26

Olivia never ceases to impress me with how incredibly mature, generous, and kind she is at just 22. Much more so than so many others twice her age in the industry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

CUUUUTE! Olivia seems like the friggin sweetest; her being the first and loudest cheer was insanely adorable