Transporting to you back to your painful teenage love...and breakup.
Olivia Rodrigo seems to be everywhere right now, and as a nearly 25 year old woman, I am sorry (but also very not sorry) to admit that I am no totally obsessed.
Her first single 'Drivers Licence' was released earlier this year after receiving overwhelming amounts of "WE WANT MORES" after Rodrigo posted a short clip on her socials. The song blew up "Drivers License" even ended up breaking a string of records, including the Spotify record for the most single-day streams for a non-holiday song (achieved on its fourth day of release), the biggest first-week for a song on Spotify and Amazon Music. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and made Rodrigo the youngest artist ever to debut atop the chart. The song spent eight weeks at number-one, becoming the longest running number-one for a debut single. All at the ripe old age of 18.
Safe to say when the album "SOUR" was released I was eager to hear what else this majestic teen had up her sleeves.
Sour is a beautiful, yet heartbreaking journey. One that I'm sure many of us have felt and been before. When Rodrigo wrote the album she was 17, a time where you're -almost- feeling like an adult but still have limitations and still treating like a child. Those awkward few years of growing and discovering who you are but still feeling held back by age, your home and probably not even having a job yet. It's during this time that the relationships you're having, either platonic or romantic are literally everything because there isn't much else going on. They can make or break your entire world, and this is something that Olivia communicates in its entirety.
Sour kicks off with 'Brutal'. It reignites a nostalgic pop-punk feeling, the kind of song you would hear in a Lindsay Lohan opening credits circa 2004. Again it discusses the frustration of being stuck where she is, "If someone tells me one more time / ‘Enjoy your youth,’ I’m gonna cry.” .
We lead into the next track 'traitor' another standout track for me, beautiful and heart wrenching, Olivia is able to illustrate such overwhelming feelings, whilst the lyrics are very blunt and to the point, the music and talented vocals leave you feeling tingly with a sense of longing. You can't help but feel sorry for Olivia throughout the album, we -all- know who and what the album is about, but I feel like there's something refreshing to see how honest and raw it all is. We all love Taylor Swift for her break up songs but it was almost lost sometimes as to wondering who. But we all know who this time, and Rodrigo is able to tell us her side of the story, especially this one.
SOUR jumps from tingly, head banging emotion charged bangers such as 'Good 4 U' and 'jealousy, jealousy' there are sprinkles of 'fuck you energy' and mischief keeping the album uplifting and good fun to listen to. Put next to subtle acoustic ballads such as 'favourite crime' and 'enough for you' takes the listener on a whirlwind of teenage diary entries written in a magical way. SOUR for me, is the perfect bag of breakup songs, one for every element and moment.
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