The pop superstar draws on a well of 2000s pop-rock influence to chart the angst heartbreak and the thirst for vengeance.
Listening to Olivia Rodrigo is like hopping in a time machine, both aurally and emotionally. The 20-year-old’s music draws from a well of 2000s pop-rock influences, bringing to mind the heyday of the likes of Avril Lavigne, and her lyrics chart the angst and confusion of experiencing heartbreak – and the subsequent thirst for vengeance – for the first time. The first lyric on the record – “I’m as light as a feather and as stiff as a board” – sent me right back to pre-teen sleepovers.
The 20-year-old superstar’s new album picks up the thematic thread of her Grammy-winning Sour with greater maturity and confidence.Ballads and bangers sit side by side and Rodrigo is a dab hand at both, though the latter are much more fun here, led by the made-for-shouting single, a choppy anthem whose double entendre title – is it about revenge or is it about reconciliation? – speaks to the contradictions of young womanhood.
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