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2 minutes ago — Every decade has its pre-eminent pop stars – from The Beatles in the 1960s to Madonna and Michael Jackson in the 1980s, and on to Taylor Swift in the 2010s. At just 20 years old, California-born Olivia Rodrigo is already a defining voice of the 2020s.
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Her spiky, emotionally heightened pop-rock songs resonate not just with the singer's Gen Z peers, but older generations too. "Part of her appeal is that she gives you permission to feel everything and not to have to dilute anything, which is very necessary after the last few years," music writer Rhian Daly tells BBC Culture, pointing to our collective need for post-pandemic release.
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. Rodrigo has said she was inspired by 1990s female artists "who aren't afraid to be angry and remorseful and like spiteful and snarling," and you can definitely hear this when she crisply eviscerates an ex for "bleedin' me dry like a goddamn vampire".
The album's other trailer single, Bad Idea Right?, is driven by a chugging guitar riff that nods to the 1980s new wave era, but Rodrigo's vocal delivery is coolly contemporary. When she repeatedly asks whether reconnecting with an ex is a "bad idea, right?" before swearing and saying "it's fine", it comes off as funny and relatable. "The key to Rodrigo's songwriting is her ability to tell a great story in a way that feels like a conversation or as if you're reading her diary," says Daly, who also praises the singer for penning lyrics that capture "how people of her generation speak".
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 explained in an interview with Zane Lowe for his Apple Music show how she loves working with Nigro, who has also written with Lewis Capaldi and Caroline Polachek, among others, because he "cares enough" to tell her when she can do better. As she recalled, after she played Nigro an early version of Drivers License, the stunningly intimate ballad that would become her breakthrough hit, he told her: "Yeah, that's great, but you need to, like, finish the chorus."
Drivers License was an instant global phenomenon. Four days after it was released in January 2021, it broke Spotify's record for the most single-day streams by a non-Christmas-themed track. At the time, Rodrigo was relatively unknown to pop fans, though she had already starred in two Disney Channel series: the quirky comedy Bizaardvark and meta mockumentary High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. In the latter, which she only left last year, she played budding singer-songwriter Nini Salazar-Roberts and contributed songs to the soundtrack. When her plaintive, self-penned ballad All I Want became a surprise Billboard Hot 100 hit in 2020, it essentially soft-launched Rodrigo's recording career and helped her to secure a very favourable record deal where she retains control of her masters.
A teen star with a difference
Though Rodrigo cut her teeth on teen-oriented shows, she never really had to shake off the "Disney star" shadow that followed Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez in the late 2000s. Hugh McIntyre, a music journalist with Forbes, attributes this to the "more fractured" entertainment landscape she came up in. Through her Disney Channel work, Rodrigo had "built a brand" that appealed to a younger demographic while simultaneously "remaining under the radar for the rest of the populace". For this reason, Drivers License felt like the arrival of a wildly talented new artist, not a grown-up pivot from a previously winsome teen star.