Olivia Rodrigo paved her own way for her excellent, guitar-drenched second album, Guts. It’s impossible to imagine a major pop artist pushing this hard into rock if she hadn’t already opened the door with the hardest-hitting moments of her 2021 debut, Sour. (That said, she doesn’t see herself as a …
Read More »Want to Read Like Olivia Rodrigo? It's Time to Learn About Intersectional Feminism
In a recent livestream with fans on Stationhead, Olivia Rodrigo told her fans that the last book she read was Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot, a 2020 collection of essays by Mikki Kendall. “The last book I read is this book called Hood Feminism that’s …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Blesses the VMAs with Some 'Guts' Spillage
Hours after dropping the music video for “Get Him Back!,” Olivia Rodrigo performed the Guts highlight at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday. The singer opened her performance in a fiery red top, pleated skirt and white leg warmers while singing “Vampire” in a forest set, recreating her “onset …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Is So Over Heartbreak
O h, my God —look!” Olivia Rodrigo says. “I just parallel parked for you!” We’re sitting in Rodrigo’s black Range Rover in L.A.’s Highland Park, stopped outside her producer Dan Nigro’s home studio. Rodrigo has a killer late-July outfit on — short, summery floral dress; tall, brown leather boots; her …
Read More »How Olivia Rodrigo's 'Rolling Stone' Cover Came Together
On her first solo Rolling Stone cover, Olivia Rodrigo appears deeply poised, leaning into a world that’s all her own. Wearing a classic black 1998 Versace bodysuit with beaded rhinestones, the young superstar shimmers as she leans forward and applies lipstick with a deadpan expression. A tiny version of Rodrigo …
Read More »How Katy Perry Mentored Olivia Rodrigo on Her New Album
Few things in music are more daunting than following up a smash debut album, but Olivia Rodrigo has pulled off that feat with Guts. The follow-up to 2021’s Sour finds the singer-songwriter turning the glories and messes of young adulthood into undeniable pop-punk bangers. That’s not to say its success …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo and Her Clones Trash Houses and Bust Windows in 'Get Him Back!' Video
Olivia Rodrigo’s Rolling Stone cover story isn’t the only reason today rules: The singer-songwriter has also dropped a new video for her Guts track “Get Him Back!” Directed by Jack Begert, the video finds Rodrigo casually wreaking havoc wherever she goes, whether trashing a house or causing a wild traffic …
Read More »Zach Bryan Tops Album Chart for Second Consecutive Week
Zach Bryan‘s self-titled fourth album remains the Number One album on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart for a second consecutive week. With over 141 million streams according to Luminate, which powers the Billboard charts, it was the top streaming album of last week, and the album sold another 3,500 units. …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Rocks Out to 'Guts' During 'Cathartic' Today Show Performance
What better way for Livies to wake up on Guts release day than to a Today Show performance? On Friday morning, Olivia Rodrigo visited 30 Rock to perform “Vampire” and “Get Him Back” from her new album. She also sang her hits “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U.” “I’ve been …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to ourweekly rundown of thebest new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Olivia Rodrigo fights the sophomore slump with an instant classic, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are back with a Caribbean-inspired jam, V from BTS gets soulful on his …
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