No one dissects love quite like Olivia Rodrigo, so it’s fitting she’s put The Cure in a museum.
On September 1, Rodrigo sat down with Cameron Crowe at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles to pull apart the song, its music video and everything that went into making it.
Afterwards, she stripped things back with an acoustic performance, bringing the whole afternoon back to where it started: a song about love and all the complicated stuff that comes with it.
The conversation marked the opening of Olivia Rodrigo: The Cure Unraveled, a new exhibition dedicated to the song and the world built around it.
Crowe, who knows a thing or two about getting musicians to talk about their work, dug into Rodrigo’s approach to vulnerability.
There’s a particular skill in writing something that feels brutally personal while still keeping a little bit of yourself back, and Rodrigo spoke about finding that line throughout her songwriting.
Then there’s the music video, which takes all that emotional chaos and makes it physical.
Instead of relying entirely on digital effects, the video was built from cardboard, paint, stop-motion animation and animatronic heart puppets.
Liam Moore and directors Cat Solen and Jaime Gerin helped create the miniature hospital world, complete with operating room sets and those slightly unsettling beating felt hearts.
The exhibition lets you see all the strange little pieces that usually disappear once a music video is finished.
There are original storyboards, the cardboard hospital set, miniature props, Rodrigo’s nurse costume and handwritten and hand-stitched artwork from the album packaging.
It’s a nice insight into the inner workings of a pop song that I’m sure countless fans will obsess over.
Olivia Rodrigo: The Cure Unraveled runs at the Grammy Museum from September 2, 2026 until February 22, 2027.
