Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS (September 8, 2023) • Page 30

The original poster is farming for rage quote tweets

 

lol works for Tim Pool yep

 

I definitely prefer the A-side here tbh

 

Yeah I’m really excited about the way she expanded her sound and her vocal stylings all over this album. I feel like it was presented as a retrenchment/continuation of SOUR but there are soooo many more ideas here by comparison.

 

That live performance is a lot of fun, the scream just doesn't work. Hardly the first time an artist has had a note in a live performance that didn't click.

 

Yeah, agreed. I liked SOUR a lot, but it's a total debut album. A lot of not-totally-formed ideas, and a lot of stuff that's pretty samey (amidst some truly brilliant stuff, too!) I think there was a desire at the time to frame it as a masterpiece or an instant classic (cough, Rolling Stone, cough) but it's really just a solid, promising album from an artist pretty clearly bound for better things. I'm glad this album pays off a lot of that promise.

 

i love the scream

 

Olivia Rodrigo deluxe track breakdown:



Red (G variant): obsessed

White (U variant): scared of my guitar

Blue (T variant): stranger

Purple (S variant): girl I’ve always been



All retailer exclusives (indie store/ target/amazon/walmart/hot topic/spotify) have obsessed

 

Hmmm do I search for the shitty vinyl rips of the tracks or just wait for the inevitable deluxe that will show up eventually

 

The green version is the best one because it has "Don't Tell Me It's Over" on it.

 

Yeah pretty isn’t pretty is easily my favorite. What a song.

 

worst decision was to pay people to make bad tweets

 

And then Tim Pool is roasted in the follow-ups, lol.

 

I like dunking on that dork.

 

Hey grimace kick rocks ok

 

my release weekend overreaction is that “pretty isn’t pretty” is her best song

 

God, Love is Embarrassing is too real.

And now it don't mean a thing
God, love's fuckin' embarrassin'
Just watch as I crucify myself
For some weird second string
Loser who's not worth mentioning
My God, love's embarrassing as hell

Like dang sis u didn't need to @ my old relationship like this

 

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm kind of surprised the sales projections have this doing less opening week than SOUR did.

 

I'm seeing that the projections are only 10k less than what Sour did. I'm not that surprised, considering how much of a behemoth Driver's License and Good 4 U were.

 

I just figured the vinyl would put this one over the top, since the vinyl for SOUR didn't ship for 3-4 months.

 

I'm not because it feels like there was so much less fanfare around this release this time. The whole discourse surrounding her vs Sabrina Carpenter and that one guy she dated (I think?) + the Taylor Swift connection + the silly stealing accusations made her inescapable on some social medias in the lead up to SOUR, but everything felt more lowkey for this album.

 

The rollout felt also quite short

 

I mean, "Vampire" was a really splashy lead single that shot straight to number 1 on the charts. I figured there was still a lot of juice there. If anything, maybe the rollout was too long given the excitement around that track versus the reception for "Bad Idea Right," which felt a lot more muted. 285K or wherever this ends up is still a really good first week, but like, Zach Bryan did 200K a week ago and he didn't have any physical product to ship.

 

Only 2 singles before album release is definitely not what most artists of this size do. I was pleasantly surprised we didn’t hear 7-8 tracks by the release date.