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Olivia Rodrigo is counting down the days to present the world with her second studio album, GUTS. On September 8, we will be able to listen to the songs that follow SOUR, including the already released «Vampire» and «Bad idea right?»
About her new recording project, the artist has assured The New York Times that she will leave pop aside to fully immerse herself in rock, a genre she has been listening to since she was a baby thanks to the 90s bands her parents love. «I have always loved rock music, and always wanted to find a way that I could make it feel like me, and make it feel feminine and still tell a story and have something to say that’s vulnerable and intimate.” she expressed, pointing out that she admires women who «do not try to recreate a version of rock music that guys make.»
In fact, we have learned that part of these 12 tracks have been recorded in the old-fashioned way, live and with a full band. In this way, Rodrigo distances herself from the established route for Disney stars. Because just as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera in their day – or Hillary Duff, Selena Gomez and Jonas Brothers today – pursued the path of pop and R&B, the 20-year-old acknowledges that this is not the organic future of her musical career.
Delving into the GUTS sound, the prestigious media points out that «All-American Bitch» – the song that opens the album – presents us with «a fierce dynamic and an ironic attitude,» which uncovers a Pandora’s box of emotions that do not usually find voice within pop. “For me, that’s what music is, it’s expressing those feelings that are really hard to externalize, or that you feel aren’t societally acceptable to externalize,” Rodrigo said. “Especially as a girl.”
Among her references and greatest inspirations, of course, we find names such as Rage Against the Machine, Jack White, Alanis Morissette, Gwen Stefani or Boygenius. In short, she loves «women who rage,» «songwriters unafraid to bare their intimate fears,» and artists who «make their politics crystal clear.»
«Brutal,» the Trigger to Move Away From Pop
Among other confessions, Olivia Rodrigo has revealed in this same interview that «Brutal,» despite being the one that opens her debut album, was the last song she composed for SOUR. It is a song with a more punk/pop sound than any other on the album; a sound that we can quickly identify in «Bad idea right?,»the second single from GUTS.
Her producer, partner and right-hand man Daniel Nigro (vocalist of emo band As Tall as Lions in the past) was when he saw then where her next steps were headed – «with all that penetrating onslaught of guitars» – in that kind of need to go towards a more grunge direction. Brutal was also the theme with which she opened her SOUR Tour. «I remember tears welling up in my eyes and being like, this is so powerful. This is what I wanted to see when I was a girl scrolling YouTube when I was 14.”
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