Since her single Drivers License became a global phenomenon, Olivia Rodrigo hasn't looked back. With her second album Guts out on Friday, Nick Levine examines her appeal.
Out on Friday, Rodrigo's second album Guts is comfortably among this year's most anticipated pop records. It has already yielded a transatlantic number one single, Vampire, which demonstrates Rodrigo's range by beginning as a hushed piano ballad before building into a mini rock opera.
Like her blockbuster debut album, 2021's Sour, which went four-times platinum in the US, Rodrigo crafted Guts with producer Dan Nigro. Rodrigo isn't the only Gen Z superstar with a go-to collaborator – Billie Eilish writes almost exclusively with her brother Finneas – but this partnership still feels noteworthy given that many modern pop hits are polished to a high sheen by larger songwriting teams.
Rodrigo first made her name in Disney channel shows such as High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Rodrigo's coming-of-age tales and heartbreak vignettes are often encased in cleverly retro packages. Sour's fifth single Brutal recalls 1990s Britpop band Elastica and features a guitar riff similar to the one that drives Elvis Costello's 1978 new wave hit Pump It Up. For McIntyre, these nods to pop's past are integral to her broad appeal.
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