Olivia Rodrigo’s “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love” is playful and slightly chaotic. That energy now fills the Grammy Museum in Downtown Los Angeles.

The two-part exhibition — “Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled” (part one) and “Olivia Rodrigo: note by note” (part two) — runs through Feb. 22. Part one features handmade sets, props and artwork created for her “the cure” music video.

Part two, “Olivia Rodrigo: note by note,” shares the 23-year-old’s impact on music and pop culture. The addition has artifacts spanning all three of her album cycles, two world tours, and items pulled from the Daisy Chain Fields festival grounds.

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The exhibit highlights:

  • Stage-worn outfits, handwritten letters to fans, and her knee-high Dr. Martens worn throughout the “Sour Tour.”
  • Stage outfits from her performances at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome and the official “Guts World Tour” megaphone. 
  • Dresses worn for the front, back and interior cover art of “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.” Her pink electric guitar featured in the “drop dead” music video is included. 

“People can expect to walk into the music video for ‘the cure,’” curator Kelsey Goelz said about “note by note.”

The exhibit, “Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled,” is less “serious museum” and more “Olivia Rodrigo playground,” Goelz said. Fans step into the surreal hospital from the video — a space where everything, from the syringe to the stethoscope to the beating felt heart, was handmade out of cardboard and tape. 

“Every single thing in this music video was made out of cardboard,” Goelz said. “You can see the syringe, the stethoscope… things you’d see in a doctor’s office, but all created out of paper and cardboard and tape.”

Goelz said the team rebuilt the entire set in less than two weeks. 

“We took down the previous exhibit, painted, and then the amazing creative team that put the video together the first time loaded in all the pieces and put it back together like a puzzle,” she said. “Then it gets dressed up with props and lit, and it looks like the real thing.”

Fans aren’t just walking through it. They’re filming it for TikTok and recreating the music video, which, Goelz said, “is so much fun.”

Rodrigo toured the exhibit the night before the opening of part one. 

“She was really excited to see everything put back together,” Goelz said. After her walkthrough, Rodrigo went to the museum’s rooftop for an interview with filmmaker / journalist Cameron Crowe and performed an acoustic set for a few hundred fans. 

“All of the guests that watched the performance got to go and see the exhibit,” Goelz said. “It was such a cool night.”

Rodrigo said part two has “incredibly special items from the past decade that I’ve never shown before.”

Goelz says she loves how Rodrigo’s fandom spans generations — especially with her collaboration with The Cure’s singer Robert Smith.

“I love how she’s kind of bridging the generations,” she said. “Maybe somebody’s daughter listens to Olivia, but their dad loves The Cure, so they’re going to check her out, too.”

The museum also features rotating artifacts from Prince, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. 

“It’s really fun to dabble in all different kinds of genres and eras of music,” Goelz said.