#oliva rodrigo sour

[cinnamonwhore]

[beatlebug987]

Red lights, stop signs, I still see your face in the white cars, front yards, can’t drive past the places we used to go to cuz I still fucking love you babe

[bloodmoonlich]

Losing brain cells reading the buzzfeed article trying to make the grudge about ts

[cowardlycowboys]

spotify warped this and that as if i know mine isn't gonna say I've listened to a LOT of Oliva Rodrigo and Taylor Swift

[asfaraswordscango]

" And we both drew blood, but, man, those cuts were never equal"

Oliva Rodrigo, The Grudge

[transgnckon]

Willow’s <COPINGMECHANISMS> album is probably gonna be my music obsession for the next couple months

[dangelqueentmnt16]

Gruffi as Oliva Rodrigo 'sour' cover:)

hey srry iv been gone, the next bit of the fanfic will be out soon. School has been ruff but good news I'm so close to graduating officially! But in the mean time here is this work of are of gruffi gummi as Olivia Rodrigo 'sour' cover lol

Ps: gusto definitely put gruffi up to this 🤭✨️💕

[ericas-music-exploration]

Me? "SOUR"? As if...

Starting as a "SOUR" teenage girl crying over her ex Olivia Rodrigo is now spilling her "Guts" with her new album. Back in 2021 the Disney Channel actor Oliva Rodrigo released her first hit song outside of Disney “Drivers License” recently after her break up with co-star Joshua Bennet (fans believe). The song was a complete success and reached teens all over the world with over 1.1 billion streams. Just 5 months after the release of “Drivers License” Olivia dropped her first album “Sour”. Olivia’s songs are a bit too relatable for anyone who has dealt with heartbreak and she is very vocal about her pain, feelings of betrayal, and all the feelings one should feel while healing from a breakup.

 In the “SOUR” album one would get more of a pop vibe to it whereas in “Guts” it leans more into rock and this was a bit of a different vibe from Oliva. In her first album “SOUR” she had one song “Brutal” that had more of a rock vibe to it but a whole rock album is different for Olivia and fans seem to be loving it. To see the pop star express herself in rock is amazing. She is still singing about a past lover but bringing a new dynamic to her previous heartbreak music. You can even tell that there's a big difference in the album covers.

Over the past two years, we assume Rodrigo did a lot of healing and soul-searching to find a new version of herself and we can not only hear it in her change of genres but she is very vocal about it in her twelve new songs. In the “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl,” she expresses that she “hate all my clothes and feels like my skin doesn’t feel right over my bones” The New York Times stated, “Olivia Rodrigo has seen the world and now she’s livid.” The songs in “Guts' ' compared to “SOUR” really show her growth and proves The New York Times right. She seemed to have a point of realization in this album whereas she was seemingly to be a bit delusional in her previous album. In her song “Vampire” she makes a few statements that show the growth she went through. Admitting that she “has made some real dumb mistakes” and how she admits that “she used to believe she was smart but you made me look so naïve' '. “Rodrigo is at her best, perhaps owing to her acting background, when delivering screeds in a kind of hyper-self-aware, spoken-word register. “Yes, I know that he’s my ex, / But can’t two people reconnect?” she poses with an almost audible wink on “Bad Idea Right?” a song on which she contemplates the self-destruction of rekindling an old romance. “I only see him as a friend / The biggest lie I ever said,” she adds, always shrewdly one step ahead of herself.”

“Overall, I see “GUTS” as the bi-curious and grungy older sister to “SOUR” and recommend it to any teenager with growing pains.” Olivia’s music is very popular and the numbers show its success and I’m positive that we will be getting more from Olivia in time. I wonder what other surprises she has in store for us…

[fernsam]

i can feel it in my GUT(S)

Olivia Rodrigo's new album did what albums should do

2 years later after SOUR, Olivia Rodrigo released GUTS in September of 2023. In a broad sense, GUTS focuses on the story of being a teenage girl and making the wrong decisions. Specifically, fans speculate that the album is mainly about Olivia’s controversial ex, Zack Bia, a 26-year-old who dated Olivia when she was only 19. The album did an amazing job of explaining their messy history and used different musical features in a unique way to convey how complicated her feelings were/are about him.

The first song, “All American Bitch”, starts the album with soft singing and abruptly transitions into rock then back to soft singing. It is a catchy song that experiments with three different genres that flow together nicely. In an interview, Oliva herself said this was her favorite track because it was musically different. The contrast between the soft pop voice, where she explains society's expectations for her, and a rock/teenage dirtbag vibe, where she reveals her imperfections, show that she’s aware she’s done with trying to be perfect. Additional to the musical aspect, her screaming, and her confession that she “knows her age”, really set up what the album will be about: she’s a girl who made mistakes but she has accepted it. And in regards to Zack, she could be hinting about his expectations for her. The fact that this song is so over the place but makes sense at the same time shows how contradicting expectations are to be perfect.  It makes listeners understand the feeling of wanting to be free from all social pressures. 

The album progresses with her story, first by asking herself if seeing Zack is a “bad idea right?” She keeps on explaining how she knows it’s wrong to be with him but it's just so tempting. In terms of lyrics, this song isn’t as unique compared to the first one and there is not much vocal singing. On the other hand, I like how she talks to the audience like it’s a casual confession between friends. It feels like those situations when you’re trying to convince your friends that they’re not THAT bad. What really adds to this is the catchy instrumental with ambiguous genres. Pitchfork explains that it’s a mix of punk and pop-rock, but Olivia really pulls these two together to make a “Frankenstein” genre. Through her unique instrumental, and voice, she kind of convinces us that yes, she shouldn’t be in his bed, but it was an experience. The lightheartedness of the song tempts the listeners to agree with her reckless behavior. 

After two songs hinting about the bad, “Vampire” is where the real expression of how she feels about him comes out. I’ll start with the really obvious, Vampire uses a metaphor that compares her ex to a greedy vampire - someone who “sucked” the life out of her. Unlike the songs before, this song uses more piano and has a more sadder vibe. She really uses her voice to make the audience understand how predatory her ex was. The raw vocals were very impressive and she raised her voice at all the right points to really emphasize how helpless she felt. She really regrets how she ignored the signs, but that’s how abuse works.

The whole chorus about how he bled her dry and only came out at night really shows how exploitative he was and how much he impacted her. Even the dramatic instrumental at the end showed that she's glad to finally get this off her chest and finally put her frustrations into words. Everything about this song really convinces the listeners to understand how she felt with sympathy. 

Although I loved the three songs mentioned above, another song that is very popular is “get him back!”. Musically, I didn't really like this one. The chorus reminds me of KIDZ BOP, especially with the layering of voices. However, the background instrumental was unique and I could definitely see why people like this song. What really stands out in this song is the lyrics. According to Genius, she uses a play on words to say how she wants him back but also wants to get him back in a revenge sense. In this song, she does more acting than singing and delivers funny lines like “I wanna meet his mom to tell just to tell her her son sucks.” The humor adds to the idea of how personal and real this album is. Additionally, the contrast between the lyrics of love and revenge shows the listener how complicated emotions can be, and breaking up is not just sadness. Olivia addresses what other people may not have been able to say: even though he hurt her she still kind of wants him back. 

Although I really like the personality of the album, I’ll admit it’s not necessarily experimental and revolutionary, especially comparing it to her previous album SOUR. At the same time, I believe it’s really good in its own interesting way. I appreciate the effort she put into explaining her side of the story and she did a great job of expressing the mix of feelings she felt, from feeling self-confident to mischievous to heartbroken to romantic and to so many others. Through this album, she was able to make the listener understand these emotions as well. The diverse use of different instrumentals and voices (seriously she went from casually talking to full-on vocals and it made sense) really flowed together and put all these complicated chaotic emotions into one cohesive album. GUTS can provide comfort to people through the acknowledgment that emotions are not always sensible.  

[chemical-irwin]

the hate oliva rodrigo stans have for joshua bassett needs to be studied fr

because why do i still seee so many tweets cussing him out with all levels of nasty, saying “i’ll hate this man forever” 😭😭😭 like i know sour is relatable, but damnnnn… unclench!!

(and some of them are rinas???? and like all by means you don’t have to like the actor of a character you like, but their tweets calling josh ugly, unlikable and untalented are so unserious when a couple tweets down is them crying and swooning at the idea of ricky writing a song for gina while streaming kristof lullaby?? 😭😭 plz be serious)

i’m sorry but making it known publicly that you despise a man this much because he was a shitty boyfriend to a girl in a teenaged relationship (years after fact) is just so…..

[goofyyaahhhhh]

I will perish in to thin air if we dontt get a superache Oliva Rodrigo cover and a sour conan gray coner i swear i will just disintegrate

[cinnamonwhore]

kerosene, in my hand

[candle-wax-and-polariods]

i wanna be included

[asidela-nada]

Acaban de poner casi todo el disco Sour de la Oliva Rodrigo en donde trabajo, y yo tipo, no esa no porque lloro asdfghhklñ

I hope you're happy, but don't be happier...

[vadergf]

Istg🙄🙄🙄

[swiftsmix1]