Olivia Rodrigo

I haven't listened to the full album only listened to the previews and these three songs above. It seems like an interesting album from what I heard though. Definitely not something that I expected.

I listened to the whole album and I just think it's ok. There's some decent material but the strongest stuff is probably the singles. Unfortunately I just think the whole album kind of sounds like too much of the same thing, there's too many ballads or sad/slow songs. I get it's a breakup album, but I think it could have benefited from having some more upbeat songs.

The main thing that annoyed me more than anything else is that nearly every song is about her stupid ex-boyfriend. I mean... how many songs do you need to write about the same person/situation? It just felt kind of repetitive. And true, Taylor Swift does that on many of her albums, but I think Taylor would either write about multiple relationships on the same album, or made the songs different enough and also explored other topics to help balance the album out. Olivia's album could have had better variety with other topics besides this stupid breakup where the guy moved on with another girl. It was like every. song. was about the same. thing. We. Get. It. So it is a very immature, typical teenage breakup album in that sense.

That being said, she is a good singer and can write really solid lyrics considering she is only 17/18. I do think she is kind of like Taylor in that way. I think she said in an interview that by no means does she really think this album is going to be her best work, and I certainly think that's the case. This is ok for a debut album from a teen pop artist, but it's definitely not a great piece of work and can use more variety in the future. I liked a few songs enough to add them to my library but otherwise this isn't an album I'll come back to.

Yeah Olivia even does the same breathy whisper-singing Billie does too. That got old after a while.

I think “hope ur ok” is about a couple gay kids she knew growing up. So yeah one of the few songs on the album not about the breakup, I think there was one other but can’t remember which one.

Edit: I think it’s jealousy, jealousy, about feeling insecure when you look at other people’s social media.

Oh yeah, I forgot about jealousy, jealousy. Yeah, that's another one.

This is a cool album, but I feel like I'm too old for this album haha