![]() ![]() ![]() Having grown up watching Taylor Swift, Rodrigo used her upper register like a weapon the same way her predecessor did in “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Sour offered massive hooks and dynamic tension - the frustration released in the choruses of “Good 4 U” and “Brutal,” the patient crescendos and bridges in “Drivers License” and “Deja Vu” - that suggested even greater depth on the horizon.Īfter winning a few Grammys and filming a fast third-season departure for her Disney character, Olivia Rodrigo has returned with Guts, a sophomore album that aims to cut a more distinct identity in a landscape of everything-bagel pop albums while continuing to explore the emotional peaks and valleys that attracted fans to songs like “Traitor.” Opener “All-American Bitch,” which references Joan Didion’s S louching Toward Bethlehem, sets the major themes up early: It sucks being expected to suffer with a smile in a world where women are treated like wells of endless resilience. But people were hooked by the songs’ agonizing honesty, righteous rage, and convincing delivery. With TikTok as the accelerant, “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U” drifted across demographics. ![]() 1 single eluded Miley Cyrus prior to “Wrecking Ball,” Selena Gomez got there a decade into her career with “Lose You to Love Me,” and Ariana Grande wouldn’t take the crown until “Thank U, Next.” The ubiquity of Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album Sour is a uniquely 2020s phenomenon: a byproduct of the power of social media to spread trends like aerosols, and a classic case of music connecting with the public off the strength of its unvarnished emotion. Graduating from the junior division takes years of fine-tuning. “Drivers License” blew up so quickly it rocketed Olivia Rodrigo out of a starring role in Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and into the rare air of chart-topping singer-songwriter on the first attempt. ![]()
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