The Olivia Rodrigo–Taylor Swift “Beef” Is Really About Something Deeper

It’s The Anxiety of Influence: Pop Edition.

is Rodrigo slightly repeating herself. One of the things I really appreciate about both of her records is their old-fashioned concision, which is in contrast to the sprawling, streaming-platform-gaming approach of a lot of new albums:is just slightly longer at 39. She’s said she wrote about 25 songs for it, then winnowed them down to 12.

“Vampire” earns its place by finding some more sonic twists to put on the piano-ballad style, but both “Logical” and “The Grudge” feel like throwbacks, with lyrics that feel like journaling and music that keeps idling in the parking lot. The redundancy of “Logical” in particular is clear in the transition from the much better “Making the Bed” —one can’t even tell it’s a different song at first, and then one wishes it weren’t.’, well, guts.

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