If there’s one thing Olivia Rodrigo has mastered, it’s the art of growing up in public without losing her edge. On her highly anticipated third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, the 23-year-old pop savant abandons the four-letter naming convention of SOUR and GUTS for a sweeping, cinematic concept album that marks her most mature and experimental work to date.
Deeply inspired by her time living in London, the record trades her signature Courtney Love-adjacent pop-punk for a gorgeous, fuzzy landscape of ’80s new wave, dream pop, and shoegaze. It’s intelligent, messy, and devastatingly relatable.
“The record is a time capsule of a relationship in all of its highs and lows… The hope and the disappointment. The insanity and the clarity.” — Olivia Rodrigo
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