As she hits the promotional circuit for her newest album, Olivia Rodrigo has been spilling all of her Guts. In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone printed Tuesday (Sept. 12), the “Drivers License” singer revealed which pop star provided to be be her mentor as she continues to navigate the music business as considered one of its greatest and brightest younger stars.
The singer in query? None apart from Billboard chart-topping artist Katy Perry. “The primary time I met her,” Perry stated, “I put my palms on her shoulders and was like, ‘Pay attention, I’m right here. No matter you want.’ As a result of I do know precisely what these pop girlies are going by, and once I was rising up, nobody actually did that for me.”
Just like Rodrigo, Perry had a breakout debut album — One of many Boys reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Scorching 100 prime 5 hits “I Kissed A Woman” (No. 1) and “Scorching N Chilly” (No. 3) — that demanded an equally profitable follow-up. One of many Boys served as Perry’s first album below the Katy Perry moniker. In line with the American Idol decide, all of those expectations exist below a really totally different set of circumstances in comparison with these surrounding the creation of the primary album.
“You’ve gotten your complete life to make your first file, after which perhaps two years to make your second — whereas going by an actual psychological change as nicely,” stated Perry, who confronted comparable pressures across the time of 2010’s Teenage Dream, which Rodrigo names as considered one of her favourite sophomore albums. “Like, ‘Oh, my God, I can purchase my mother a automobile,’ and, ‘Oh, my God, I don’t must have the stress from my previous.’ However it’s a psychological jungle on the market.”
In 2010, Perry launched Teenage Dream, her Grammy-nominated sophomore studio album, which spawned 5 Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 singles: “Firework,” “California Gurls” (with Snoop Dogg), “Final Friday Night time (T.G.I.F.),” “E.T.” (with Kanye West) and the title observe. Two years later, Perry re-released the album as Teenage Dream: The Full Confection, incomes an extra Scorching 100 chart-topper with “A part of Me.” Perry has despatched three whole titles to the highest of the Billboard 200 and earned 9 profession chart-toppers on the Scorching 100, together with “Roar” and “Darkish Horse” (with Juicy J).
Rodrigo is already off to an excellent begin together with her sophmore period. Whereas Guts will debut on subsequent week’s Billboard 200, the album has already yielded a pair of Scorching 100 prime 10 hits: “Vampire” (No. 1) and “Unhealthy Thought Proper?” (No. 10). Guts serves because the follow-up to Rodrigo’s Grammy-winning debut studio album, Bitter, which spawned the Scorching 100 hit singles “Drivers License” (No. 1), “Good 4 U” (No. 1), “Deja Vu” (No. 3) and “Traitor” (No. 9).
On Tuesday night time (Sep. 12), Rodrigo will carry out on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. This yr, the “Traitor” singer boasts six nominations, together with video of the yr, track of the yr and finest pop (all for “Vampire”). In 2021, she received three Moonpeople, together with finest new artist and track of the yr (“Drivers License”).
