SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo // Album Review
Olivia Rodrigo justifies her sudden climb to fame on SOUR by embodying a whole generation and letting the world in on her insecurities.
released via Geffen, 21 May 2021
After a couple of breakthrough acting roles in the Disney-verse, Rodrigo displayed an appetite for soaring ballads with a first single, ‘drivers license’–a leviathan of a pop song that broke a multitude of records shortly after its release in January. She let us in on her experience of heartbreak, drawing parallels with an American rite of passage and ultimately suggesting calamitous endings to teenage love are formative growing pains. By wearing many hats, from the indignant “Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me” to the frustrated longing of “I still fucking love you”, Rodrigo used the full extent of her pristine higher register to process raw emotions by way of delivering the biggest song of the year (yet). There was a sense that so much time had been wasted on the wrong person and simultaneously a curious, yet relatable, feeling that time hadn’t been wasted after all.
Favorites: brutal, traitor, deja vu, good 4 u, jealousy, jealousy
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