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In a way, yeah. I saw Billie in 2019 and she was super awesome. Played 4th down the bill of the LL mainstage. Did I think it was a headlining worthy set?  When she dropped her second album and started headlining, I was a bit disappointed. Felt too early in her career, definetly immature. With that being said, Billie was an anomaly - she's almost unprecedentedly acclaimed (youngest to win 4 of  the big 4 in the grammys at the same year, she has the same amount of Oscars as Tarantino), so maybe it was inevitable. 

I am probably biased in wanting to hear a few songs like I Let Love In, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, Lime Tree Arbour and Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow that I somehow missed on the original tours. My budget was simply smaller in 1998 so I couldn't really travel to shows! I certainly think these are as much "hits" as anything currently played, as quite a few were MTV videos, etc, but I suspect that most people have largely forgotten those. There were a few rarities at recent non-album focused All Point East shows, but I think we all have to realise that the Bad Seeds have almost no overlap with the band from 20 years ago, so I almost feel it is better that they play the new album in full, as a "real" band, rather than playing cover versions of older songs.

The Olivia Rodrigo thing has put me in mind a bit about a chat a couple of us were having in the Primavera forum earlier this year/around the time the line up was announced.    I think another thing that is important to note is that diversity, particular gender diversity, seems to be a massive pre-requisite for the modern festival audience and I think promoters are very in-aware of this. I don't think that's a bad thing at all by the way, but I do think festivals the size of Werchter, Glasto etc have had to adjust their booking strategies accordingly in order to get female artists (or female-fronted bands) to the level of headliner to address the issue quite quickly. There are hardly any out-and-out ticket sellers from rock/alt that fit that criteria so they've had to cast the net wider with acts like Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa etc to address a previously existing imbalance and ensure they aren't left behind.

I dont know why people insist of adopting such attitude. Why are you socmad? Man did I insult you or something?   true, I didn't know many of her popular songs. But I don't need more than watching 30 minutes of her set online to confirm my impressions on her as a performer.   Yes, she's inexperienced. No, I don't think that being a good ticket seller at the peak of your extremely short career is an indication for performance abilities. I don't deny that she is headlining festivals, I'm saying that soon enough, festivals that chose to change strategy and book headliners like Olivia as HEADLINERS will see a decline in ticket sales. Just like happened in Coachella who started booking acts like Blackpink, and will happen soon in Glasto (Maybe? Dunno the brits may be more loyal)  

It wasn’t just 90s though. Arctic Monkeys in 2007, Mumford & Sons in 2013, Stormzy in 2019… all headlining with only 2 albums or less.