Attempts to talk about mental health in the music industry continue. At the same steps as important as those given by Ariana Grande, donating $ 1 million in therapy for their fans, or Chappell Roan talking about the need for records to offer therapy to artists (and not only Leoninos contracts), new initiatives are added.
This week we have found out that Olivia Rodrigo has made available to all members of his tour team as unlikely as free therapy. Billboard does not specify whether the offer is applicable to the last person of the tens and tens that are responsible for setting up a stage, but we do know that it offers this service right in one of the less safe environments for an artist: the road and the hotels. Those spaces in which drugs and alcohol usually abound, and everyone is far from their family and friends.
Billboard has spoken with one of those people from the Olivia Rodrigo team, his guitarist Daisy Spencer. This has revealed that the offer of therapy during the tour is not only for the days in which there is a concert, but also for the lapses in which no, we assume that thanks to online sessions.
“On the” Guts “tour Olivia and Marty Hom (Tour Manager) have given us access to free therapy to all tour staff. They had never offered it to me and I have recovered the importance of therapy, because it hasn’t been going for a long time. I have used this incredible therapists used as if there were no tomorrow ». Spencer believes that it is the best they could offer him, because going to therapy is very expensive.
Olivia Rodrigo has talked about the importance of going to therapy on numerous occasions, although sometimes there are people who have said: “You don’t need that, you have everything, your life is incredible, what problem do you have?” Or older people have made comments like “you are a girl, you will overcome it.”
Olivia Rodrigo is one of the artists who precisely visit this weekend Mad Cool. In Madrid we are waiting for exactly this Saturday, July 12.
