Olivia Rodrigo obtained a letter of recommendation from Jack White.
The previous White Stripes star, 48, instructed the 20-year-old Grammy winner that her “solely job” is to put in writing radio-worthy music.
In an interview with The New York Occasions, Olivia mentioned: “He wrote me this letter the primary time I met him that mentioned, ‘Your solely job is to put in writing music that you’d wish to hear on the radio.
“I imply, writing songs that you just wish to hear on the radio is in reality very laborious.”
St. Vincent – whose actual title is Anne Clark – additionally had this reward for the star within the profile: “I’ve by no means met anybody so younger and so effortlessly self-possessed. [Rodrigo] is aware of who she is and what she needs — and doesn’t appear to be in any method afraid of voicing that. And only a actually beautiful woman too.
“I’ve by no means heard her say a nasty phrase about anybody.”
Olivia just lately revealed she “felt immense stress” making her second album, ‘GUTS’, the follow-up to her record-breaking 2021 debut LP ‘SOUR’.
Talking on Hits Radio Breakfast, to Fleur East and James Barr, she mentioned: “Making this album undoubtedly had its ups and downs. “And there have been some days the place I am similar to, wow, the stress is simply insurmountable. I simply really feel, I do not know what I am gonna do, and different days the place it was actually enjoyable and, , had a good time.
“However uh, , I feel on the finish of the day, a very powerful factor, it feels like so tacky and cliché, however I simply needed to make an album that I actually preferred and felt actually happy with.”
Though she was an actress earlier than, Olivia’s music profession noticed her catapulted to new heights of fame in 2021, with the record-breaking success of her viral hit ‘Driver’s License’, which grew to become the UK’s longest-running primary debut single since Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 hit ‘Loopy’, whereas additionally constantly topping the charts within the US and elsewhere.