Olivia Rodrigo may be a rockstar disguised as a pop princess. Forward of the Sept. 8 launch of her extremely anticipated sophomore effort Guts, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter revealed particulars of the edgier course her music will tackle her new album (trace: it’s lots nearer to “Good 4 U” and “Brutal” than the opposite songs on Bitter) in an in-depth interview with the New York Occasions, printed Thursday (Aug. 24).
For example, the publication experiences that the brand new file’s first monitor “All-American Bitch” options fuzzy energy chords and several other f-bombs, whereas “Ballad of a Homeschooled Woman” finds the younger star chanting a “litany of embarrassing social gathering fouls over a springy bass line” whereas letting out cathartic screams. A number of of the 12 tracks on Guts had been recorded the old-school manner: stay, and with a full band.
As NYT places it: With Guts, Rodrigo is “Trojan-horsing in rock’s musical brashness and emotional spikiness below the quilt of pop stardom.”
“For me, that’s what music is, it’s expressing these emotions which are actually onerous to externalize, or that you just really feel aren’t societally acceptable to externalize,” Rodrigo instructed the publication. “Particularly as a lady.”
However whereas her musical heroes embrace Jack White and Rage In opposition to the Machine, the three-time Grammy winner mentioned her rock tendencies replicate a extra female facet. Suppose: Gwen Stefani and Alanis Morissette, or newer tastemakers like Soccer Mommy and Boygenius.
“[I] at all times liked rock music, and at all times needed to discover a manner that I may make it really feel like me, and make it really feel female and nonetheless telling a narrative and having one thing to say that’s susceptible and intimate,” Rodrigo mentioned, noting she appears as much as ladies who make rock music with out “making an attempt to recreate a model of rock music that guys make.”
Up to now, Guts is preceded by two singles: “Vampire,” which debuted atop the Billboard Scorching 100, and “Dangerous Thought Proper?,” which dropped earlier this month and topped the Scorching Rock & Various Songs chart. The tracks mark Rodrigo’s first releases for the reason that album that made her a family identify, Bitter.
Within the new interview, Rodrigo touched very flippantly on one in all Bitter‘s greatest musical inspirations, Taylor Swift. The previous Disney star was as soon as very vocal about her adoration of the “Anti-Hero” singer and even gave Swift writing credit on each “1 Step Ahead, 3 Steps Again” and “Deja Vu” off her 2021 debut.
Requested if she had attended one in all Swift’s Eras Tour exhibits, Rodrigo merely mentioned: “I haven’t but,” shortly including that she’d been busy. “I’m going to Europe this week.”
