olivia rodrigo sets a record

much prefer "good 4 u" and its Juliana Hatfield moves to anything else she's released but I wish this style of vocal affectation would disappear

yes ilxors have heard dan nigro's songs w/ sky ferreira two of which placed in our year-end polls iirc xp

plus another year-end finisher w/ caroline polachek "so hot you're hurting my feelings" (v good)

personally have also heard the conan gray singles (not good)

Gotcha, thx (xxp – Juliana Hatfield is a good reference point, btw)

She sounded good on SNL! Yeah, she can sing.

The band was a little lackluster… I guess Dan Nigro was the scrubby guy she hugged at the end (judging by this pic of him).

Nigro says since working with Grey, his inbox is filled daily with new artists' pitches -- but Olivia Rodrigo immediately captured his attention. He quickly went on her Instagram and found a clip of a song called “Happier,” saying, “I just got the chills and I was like, ‘Oh my God, her voice is insane.’ I literally DM’d her that second and was like, ‘Hey, I think you're amazing. We should make music.’”

I don't see that as creepy. She was applying for a job that he accepted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiaCdUACJp8

sounds like "Misery Business" to me

I don't hear it

this new track is fucking excellent

It's stupid good... like maybe the best song in this style I've ever heard. (After a weekend of listening, I have the subjective data to upgrade it from my initial "this is cool" assessment to "this is truly great.")

"good 4 u" was made 4 me

second #1

https://i.imgur.com/ty8C7Vo.jpg

album is pretty good! a very solid pop-singer-songwriter debut. she indeed really could use more lyrical range though lol

highlights are "brutal" with its elvis costello interpolation and "jealousy, jealousy"

My CD arrives tmrrw!

OK, listening online now... "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" is sure one for the songs that sound like other songs books, LOL

swift & antonoff are credited on it for the "new year's day" rip

Haha, yeah just looked that up.

they should have credited costello though for "brutal"

which EC song does that "interpolate"?

(I'm hearing the above-discussed Alanis similarities more in the context of the full album)

she indeed really could use more lyrical range though lol

haha - by the time you get to "Happier," it's almost like a parody of a breakup album ("We broke up a month ago..."). I like a good waltz, tho

pump it up xp

"Jealousy, Jealousy" is indeed a cool jam

This is pretty much what I was expecting – some solid songs, some ok songs – though maybe a little restrained overall... I wish they swung for the fences a little more, and got even more enjoyably straight-faced cheesy.

(though I can apparently barely write a coherent sentence, so who am I to talk)

omfg "brutal"

yeah that's the best new track

As for the rest: the relentless of the hysteria is its own attraction.

i wish the whole thing was like "brutal"

same, it *rules*

I found this to be kind of a chore and turned it off before the end

"Traitor" and "Happier" are basically the same song, no?

I like "Favorite Crime" a lot...

Kid played me "Brutal," sounds like Elastica.

Someone sent me this, which I suppose is meant to support Murgatroid's comparison above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-rn6f--XY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMEiL3lLRqg

I love how teenage this record sounds.

The run from Brutal to Good 4 U is *chefs kiss* but it’s got way too many ballads at the end. They’re good ballads! But it needs more upbeat, louder tracks

Yeah, that’s kind of what I (clumsily) was trying to say

I wonder if they rushed it a bit, to capitalize on the success of Driver’s License(?) It feels a track or two short, like they could have recorded one more banger but were out of gas…

(Of course, this could also just reflect the limitations of a young artist who’s still developing her voice, etc. It was originally supposed to be an EP and they fleshed it out, which tracks with the overall feel.)

all of the above

it definitely feels a bit rushed. and as good as they are I can't picture any of the album tracks becoming hit singles

Millennials listening to Olivia Rodrigo today pic.twitter.com/3FzN5k2Qv8

— Ben Yahr (@benyahr) May 21, 2021

“Brutal” is such a jam

I’ve also come around to “Deja Vu” being a truly great song… Its lyrics are so “on the nose” that I think I didn’t give it proper credit at first, but that’s exactly what makes it work.

(It’s also really smart how the opening verse sounds like it’s the narrator talking about doing these various things with the guy herself—but then the final line of the verse twists that around, and introduces the theme of the song.)

it's the best of the singles by far imo (haven't heard rest of album yet)

It's probably just the Taylor Swift influence, but "Deja Vu" feels so Nashville in the way it lays out its metaphor, the structure of its lyrics.

"deja vu" is the best single yeah and one of the best on the album

Olivia sets a few new records: "Good 4 U" debuts at #1 on the Hot 100, making Sour the first debut album in history with two singles to debut at #1; as well as the first debut album to generate two Hot 100 #1's before the album hits the Billboard 200.

Is "good 4 u" the first song written/produced in a pop-punk format to hit #1 on the charts since, like, the 2000s?

nah 24kgoldn "mood"