“We love ya, Olivia,” headlined the New York Daily News, but the New York Times took a less enthusiastic view of the Australian bred pop singer Olivia Newton-John. After her sell-out concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, Times critic John Rockwell wrote that Olivia’s “demonstrable niceness buoys up her minimal art,” but added: “Why America’s apparent need for a female pop singer who blends images of the crinolined, antebellum South with the buoyancy of a modern-day Texas cheerleader should be fulfilled by somebody from England by way of Australia remains one of life’s minor mysteries.” A local gossip columnist noted that the singer was unattached since she broke up with her manager, but decided t
