Olivia Rodrigo
GUTS
Geffen
Released 9/8/23 | Listen Below
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Two years on from her highly acclaimed, multi-platinum breakout debut album SOUR (2021), Olivia Rodrigo has delivered her follow-up effort GUTS courtesy of Geffen Records. The twelve-track album is preceded by its first two singles in the form of the shapeshifting “vampire” and kinetic “bad idea right?” both of which illuminate her penchant for raw emotion, lyrical introspection and vocal versatility coupled with striking melodies.
“When I was making SOUR I was so new to the process and also so heartbroken; I’d just sit at the piano for hours and feel overcome with things I needed to express,” she explains in an official statement. “But this album was much more about focusing on the craft of songwriting, which sometimes meant not taking myself so seriously and getting a little more tongue-in-cheek with my lyrics. We experimented so much with different approaches to writing and ended up with something that’s much more rock-influenced than anything I’ve done before.”
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