Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS (September 8, 2023) • Page 54

Love is Embarrassing is good!

 

“love is embarrassing” is in my top three from GUTS, alongside “all-american bitch” and “the grudge.” What a perfect track to play in your car with the volume turned up.

 

Cannot tell you how often I blast "Get Him Back!" into "Love Is Embarrassing". And absolutely perfect back-to-back

 

Love is embarrassing is perfect and so relatable and deserves all the things.

 

"Love is Embarassing" is solid, but it's no "Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl" or "Pretty Isn't Pretty." But it's also more interesting than something like "The Grudge" or "Logical"

 

“Some weird second-string loser who’s not worth mentioning” is such a cutting line. You hear some refer to you like that, you would consider disappearing for awhile.

 

waited by my phone like a goddamn fool is REAL

 

Love is embarrassing sums up my dating experience in my late teens and early 20s. Falling on the sword for an absolute loser smh. Logical is also cutting and good af. Olivia healing all my quarter life traumas lol

Also I wanna meet his mom just to tell her her son sucks is a whole mood

So American is also very fun.

 

Also this album makes me feel like we need an indie sleaze olivia album and also a lil country moment

 

I think I’ve said something similar to this before but I think I a big reason why millennials have latched on to her so much is she is writing lyrics like a lot of emo bands of our youth did, straight forward and angsty and not embarrassed to have feelings and wear your heart on your sleeve and etc. It’s definitely “not cool” again these days to admit you’re jealous or hurt, it’s “not that deep” and etc amongst the kids these days. She’s basically doing the opposite of that and people our age aren’t as shocked to hear that in song lyrics haha. Obviously every song writer writes about broken hearts and emotions and etc, but not too many of the young cool ones are this straight forward about being jealous and looking at their current bf/gfs ex and etc.

 

And yes I know I’ve said here Love is Embarrassing is by far my favorite on the album. My only complaint is it’s over too soon haha. Such a fucking bop of a song with super relatable lyrics, and it would be one of the few times I’d be interested in one of those YouTube people doing some tweaks to the guitar tones and do the “If love is embarrassing was an 2003 emo song” lol

 

Yes it's like the emo angst feelings of adolescent romance and insecurities but from a woman's perspective and not a whiny sexist dude

 

Can’t believe you’d come in here and insult “the grudge” like that.

 

Stranger is v good

 

It's the least memorable song on the album!

 

“Making the Bed” is absolutely worse than “The Grudge.” At least the latter has the “this is clearly about Taylor but no one will admit it” intrigue.

 

Aw this makes me sad. I love that one.

 

Saaaaaaaaaaame. Viscerally understand the regret of humiliating yourself and later being like “for THEM?!?”

 

I literally texted my friend the other day this about Olivia Rodrigo:

does Olivia Rodrigo make music for people her age or am I just a 30 year old that can still relate to her because I be going through it with some people

 

It’s the only one I really don’t care for. Just such a boring chorus, imo.

 

I think "making the bed" is the best of the ballads on here.

 

That is a truly insane take.

 

Full ranking of songs:

Get Him Back!
Vampire
All American Bitch
Love Is Embarrassing
So American
Bad Idea Right?
Teenage Dream
Obsessed
Pretty Isn't Pretty
The Grudge
Scared of My Guitar
Logical
Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl
Lacy
Girl I've Always Been
Stranger
Making the Bed

 

all-american bitch
ballad of a home-schooled girl
pretty isn't pretty
teenage dream
bad idea right?
vampire
lacy
get him back!
making the bed
love is embarassing
logical
the grudge

have not listened to the bonus tracks yet, but I'd probably put "obsessed" over "love is embarassing"

 

Craig, my dear, my darling. Well done, clap clap clap clap clap. Not gonna include spilled though:

Vampire
Get Him Back!
Bad Idea Right?
All American Bitch
Love Is Embarrassing
Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl
Pretty Isn't Pretty
Teenage Dream
The Grudge
Lacy
Making the Bed
Logical