Olivia Rodrigo struggled to jot down music for her new album Guts at first as a result of she was crippled by “nervousness and doubt”.
The Drivers License singer admitted in an interview with The Guardian that the songs did not come to her as simply with Guts as a result of she was frightened about matching or surpassing the success of her 2021 debut album Bitter.
“There have been a great few months the place I might sit on the piano and all I might take into consideration was how I used to be by no means going to make one thing nearly as good, or all of the imply issues that individuals on Twitter would say, or how I wasn’t nearly as good as… no matter,” she shared.
She began writing music along with her collaborator Dan Nigro final August they usually selected to work in his storage studio as soon as once more as an alternative of a brand new recording surroundings.
“Including a brand new studio to the combination would have meant extra nervousness and doubt. Like: ‘Oh my God, we’re spending hundreds of {dollars} and I really feel like I am not writing something good…’ It is the antithesis of creativity,” she confessed, revealing that some days she went into Dan’s studio and easily cried.
Nevertheless, the duo introduced in new co-writers to inject contemporary concepts into their course of and since the 20-year-old needed to study from different musicians.
She revealed that receiving recommendation from Jack White, who informed her to jot down songs that she needed to listen to on the radio, sparked her creativity.
“I used to be going by way of such a tough time, however for some purpose, studying that, I used to be like, ‘Oh my God! That is precisely what I must do,'” she recalled.
Guts was launched on Friday.
