Check out the live version of her singing "Enough for You". It hits different. I keep coming back to Jealousy, Jealousy though. So good.
On 'Sour,' Olivia Rodrigo Is A Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings First great writing I’ve seen on this, by Lindsay Zoladz (of course)
brutal is a great opener. On my third listen and I absolutely love this and will be paying an absurd amount of money to put these songs on the bar jukebox.
Related: who started the "I'm going to use only lowercase letters while stylizing my song titles," and why is that a thing?
I'm having a small existential crisis that Billy Joel is now like a secret artist teens would have to introduce each other to.
Maura Johnston with a great write up 'Sour' review: Olivia Rodrigo's debut hints at an even brighter future
the decision to not break-up all of the "sour" emotions songs (which, I get what she was going for) with literally any other emotion really hurts this album for me. intensely repetitive lyrics.
Played brutal for my classes today. Great response, I had kids who typically only talk to me about rock commenting about how much they liked it! Really interesting, brave choice to have the opener on your debut pop album be a riot grrrrrl inspired punk track
There's just... Does he think they had records back then? And could he have picked a worse artist to make the point? I can hum you whole stretches of his 5th, 6th and 9th from memory.