Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (May 21, 2021) • Page 35

Pom Pom Squad has a new album out tonight that everyone should go listen to, while we’re on the subject!

 

I'm sorry but pom pom squad didn't invent cheerleaders

 

Well obviously not but there are definitely at least some similarities.

 

Right, but you could do the same side by side photos with.... Bring it on or like, any cheer related movie show it campaign

 

the extra long leather gloves and hairpins seem sorta specific

 

yeah, the pins and the long gloves, i'll give them that. but everything else is kind of a stretch, honestly.

i just searched "sad prom queen pose" in google images, and it pulled up a few other similar looking photos. so yeah, pom pom squad didn't invent "sad prom queens" or whatever.

but it is pretty interesting if there really is someone from her team that follows pom pom squad. guess it depends on how much of a say that person has and stuff, i guess.

 

Long gloves are from

 

Also, the photo above the gloves one is from 2019, not Sour, so that really kills that reference point

 

Someone's getting fired

 

The gloves and the hairpins, sure. But the serial killer lettering is all a lift from the Mean Girls burn book anyway. People get way too intent on being a “detective” with this shit.

 

Two very common Pinterest and creative direction aesthetics. We've seen cheerleaders in music videos/album artwork for my entire lifetime.

Also needs more love:

 

Who wants to go through Pom Pom Club's promo materials and do side by sides with all their references and influences?

 

I totally thought she was riffing on Carrie and Jennifer's body along with her early 00s inspiration so like bring it on and mean girls. But idk who pom pom squad is. Some of the pics do have a v similar aesthetic. But she posted a pic of Carrie recently so I thought she was taking inspo from that

 

Don't have a take on the controversy, but the PPS album rules and does remind me of this album except the reverse of the punky/ballad split.

 

Jennifers Body and Princess Diaries came to mind to me as well.

 

Mandy Moore is so iconic!

 

Yeah I agree it’s much more likely Olivia is pulling from the pop culture pieces mentioned here than it is that she/her team are explicitly plagiarizing a small indie artist. However, if someone from Olivia’s team really does follow PPS, I kind of get the suspicion given how uncanny a couple of those images are.

 

i was gonna say lol

 

Uhhhhhh

 

Oh Courtney…

 

I hope Courtney is then planning to send that thank you note on to Brian DePalma for Carrie...

 

Live Through This is a beauty pageant not a prom so she has no basis for her argument , in addition to it being gross to attack a child especially one who's a WOC

 

Also she body shames Olivia in the comments which is super gross



Also lol

 

I hope Olivia has a good support system because now that she's the big new pop girl these sort of things will be happening to her all the time, warranted or not. Sucks that it happens like clockwork anytime a new young pop girl is on the rise