Looking at the title of this tune, you’re probably thinking to yourself, ‘oh-oh, here comes another Olivia Rodrigo song about her ex-boyfriend having a new girlfriend’. But in fact this is one of only two...
We’re not going to go into an exposition concerning the thematic similarities between “Happier” and virtually every other song we’ve thus far analyzed from Sour. What we will say is that whereas said undertaking is not a concept...
We’re now starting to take back our earlier assertion that there’s more to Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” than romantic teen fare. Well in fact there is – a lot more actually. But now getting deeper into the album, it...
On “Favorite Crime”, Olivia Rodrigo is singing to a toxic ex and about the relationship the two of them were involved in. And what she is basically doing is recounting how poorly he treated her....
Although it may feel like “Drivers License” and “Deja Vu” came out ages ago, in reality they were released just a few months prior to Sour, the album they ended up being featured on. The first of those especially proved...
The two songs which Olivia Rodrigo respectively released to launch her musical career, 2021’s “Drivers License” and “Deja Vu“, were a bit misleading. And that’s because they gave us the impression that when she did get around to...
When Olivia Rodrigo first came out earlier in 2021 with her hit debut single “Drivers License“, most people took it that the story featured therein was based on her real life. And whereas ultimately proof...
Sometimes it feels funny – for lack of a better word – analyzing songs by these young female artists such as Olivia Rodrigo or say Billie Eilish that center on them going through the...
The title and related thematic sentiment of this song (“Good 4 U”) is sarcastic in nature. What the vocalist is doing is addressing her ex-boyfriend. And on the surface, she is congratulating him on being able...
As a musician, Olivia Rodrigo dreads the prospect of being ‘pigeonholed’. In other words, she doesn’t want to be perceived as a one-dimensional artist, i.e. the type that, say, harps on the same subject over and over. ...