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An avowed student of female-driven ’90s alternative rock — when I saw her two years ago at Radio City Music Hall, she played a rousing cover of Veruca Salt’s “Seether” — Rodrigo wears her influences on her sleeve and, in one particular case, books them for her tour.

To the tune of a highly anticipated Veruca Salt needle-drop, "Seether" plays over a scene in which she walks the distance from her car to Walter's boat as though she's never been in public in her life.

Along with playing the entirety of “Sour” — an album that interpolates Taylor Swift and Paramore — Rodrigo also paid tribute to other female musicians that have paved the way for her iteration of confessional, confrontational pop-rock, covering Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” and Veruca Salt’s “Seether.”

At this show, she performed two knowing covers: “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne, who from the beginning of her career coated her pinpoint pop instincts in punk aesthetics, and Veruca Salt’s “Seether,” a pillar of grunge-adjacent alt-rock that was the one moment Rodrigo appeared out of her depth, her irate vocals not able to cut through the band’s abandon.

Queen Naija’s payback anthem “Medicine” has been one of this year’s defining R&B songs, a slow seether about infidelity sung with disarming calm.