Buckle up, Gleeks, because Rachel Berry finally got her “Drivers License.”
That’s right: Lea Michele stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (May 22) to deliver a stunning cover of Olivia Rodrigo‘s seminal debut single.
Donning a ruched ivory jumpsuit, the star channeled her Glee character’s famous sense of melodrama as she belted out the eight-week No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, singing, “You’re probably with that blonde girl who always made me doubt/ She’s so much older than me, she’s everything I’m insecure about/ Yeah, today I drove through the suburbs, ’cause how could I ever love someone else?” (Of course, if this was the early days of Glee, Michele-as-Berry would almost certainly be referring to Dianna Agron’s Quinn Fabray, right?)
Following the number, Michele shared with host Kelly Clarkson that her cover was, in fact, directly inspired by her iconic TV persona.
“I’m on tour right now, and I’m singing a lot of songs from Glee and from Broadway,” she explained. “But I do this section in my show, so it’s: ‘If Glee were on television right now, what would Rachel Berry be singing?’ And the minute I heard ‘Drivers License,’ I was like, ‘That’s such a Rachel Berry song.’”
After revealing that the cast of Glee did “over 800 songs” during the course of six seasons on the Fox series, Michele also teased that she has “something exciting coming up,” but didn’t give fans any further details besides the fact that she’d be announcing the secret project “very soon.”
Other famous faces who’ve performed “Cameo-oke” numbers on The Kelly Clarkson Show recently include Blake Shelton, Lizzo, Sierra Hull, Ledisi and the Broadway cast of SMASH.
Watch Michele drive through the suburbs on “Drivers License” below.
