second #1
https://i.imgur.com/ty8C7Vo.jpg
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
album is pretty good! a very solid pop-singer-songwriter debut. she indeed really could use more lyrical range though lol
highlights are "brutal" with its elvis costello interpolation and "jealousy, jealousy"
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
My CD arrives tmrrw!
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 01:38 (three years ago) link
OK, listening online now... "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" is sure one for the songs that sound like other songs books, LOL
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
swift & antonoff are credited on it for the "new year's day" rip
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
Haha, yeah just looked that up.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
they should have credited costello though for "brutal"
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link
which EC song does that "interpolate"?
(I'm hearing the above-discussed Alanis similarities more in the context of the full album)
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
she indeed really could use more lyrical range though lol
haha - by the time you get to "Happier," it's almost like a parody of a breakup album ("We broke up a month ago..."). I like a good waltz, tho
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
pump it up xp
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 21 May 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
"Jealousy, Jealousy" is indeed a cool jam
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
This is pretty much what I was expecting – some solid songs, some ok songs – though maybe a little restrained overall... I wish they swung for the fences a little more, and got even more enjoyably straight-faced cheesy.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
(though I can apparently barely write a coherent sentence, so who am I to talk)
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
omfg "brutal"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
yeah that's the best new track
As for the rest: the relentless of the hysteria is its own attraction.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
i wish the whole thing was like "brutal"
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
same, it *rules*
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 21 May 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
I found this to be kind of a chore and turned it off before the end
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 21 May 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
"Traitor" and "Happier" are basically the same song, no?
I like "Favorite Crime" a lot...
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Kid played me "Brutal," sounds like Elastica.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Someone sent me this, which I suppose is meant to support Murgatroid's comparison above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-rn6f--XY
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMEiL3lLRqg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 May 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
I love how teenage this record sounds.
The run from Brutal to Good 4 U is *chefs kiss* but it’s got way too many ballads at the end. They’re good ballads! But it needs more upbeat, louder tracks
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 22 May 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that’s kind of what I (clumsily) was trying to say
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 22 May 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
I wonder if they rushed it a bit, to capitalize on the success of Driver’s License(?) It feels a track or two short, like they could have recorded one more banger but were out of gas…
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 22 May 2021 06:50 (three years ago) link
(Of course, this could also just reflect the limitations of a young artist who’s still developing her voice, etc. It was originally supposed to be an EP and they fleshed it out, which tracks with the overall feel.)
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 22 May 2021 07:03 (three years ago) link
all of the above
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:54 (three years ago) link
it definitely feels a bit rushed. and as good as they are I can't picture any of the album tracks becoming hit singles
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 22 May 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
Millennials listening to Olivia Rodrigo today pic.twitter.com/3FzN5k2Qv8— Ben Yahr (@benyahr) May 21, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 22 May 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
“Brutal” is such a jam
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 22 May 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
I’ve also come around to “Deja Vu” being a truly great song… Its lyrics are so “on the nose” that I think I didn’t give it proper credit at first, but that’s exactly what makes it work. (It’s also really smart how the opening verse sounds like it’s the narrator talking about doing these various things with the guy herself—but then the final line of the verse twists that around, and introduces the theme of the song.)
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Sunday, 23 May 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
it's the best of the singles by far imo (haven't heard rest of album yet)
― dyl, Sunday, 23 May 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
It's probably just the Taylor Swift influence, but "Deja Vu" feels so Nashville in the way it lays out its metaphor, the structure of its lyrics.
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Sunday, 23 May 2021 04:50 (three years ago) link
"deja vu" is the best single yeah and one of the best on the album
― ufo, Sunday, 23 May 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
Olivia sets a few new records: "Good 4 U" debuts at #1 on the Hot 100, making Sour the first debut album in history with two singles to debut at #1; as well as the first debut album to generate two Hot 100 #1's before the album hits the Billboard 200.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
Is "good 4 u" the first song written/produced in a pop-punk format to hit #1 on the charts since, like, the 2000s?
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
nah 24kgoldn "mood"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 May 2021 05:24 (three years ago) link
Or that juice wrld song that interpolates yellowcard
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
2021's hottest stars actually both very cold pic.twitter.com/l5CgFFf1sK— Caitlin Rose (@TheCaitlinRose) May 24, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
that song only got to #2, i think xp
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/998842657/olivia-rodrigo-sour-drivers-license-debut-album-review
Lowercase girls tend to fly under the radar by design, but once you start looking you'll see them everywhere. For one thing, they've been all over the streaming charts in the past few years: folklore, evermore, "thank u, next," girl in red, mxmtoon, dodie, beabadoobee, how i'm feeling now, "drivers license," "deja vu," "good 4 u" — to name just a few recent, femme-forward musical phenomena that wouldn't even think of imposing the tyranny of capital letters on the listener's imagination.
But lowercase girls have been there forever, in the back rows of classrooms and the corners of parties, daydreaming, doodling, stockpiling vivid details and observations in the marble notebooks of their minds — waiting for the precise moment to launch them like a carefully crafted dart that punctures everybody else's apathy and proves just how sharply she has been paying attention. Some of the best of them never grow out of it. ...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
That was marvelous, thanks.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
finally, people are seeing and appreciating the former star of two Disney TV shows
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
xxxxxxxxp I don't really think of "Mood" as pop-punk(?) – but I'll let 2011nostalgia be the judge
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
I had Mood in mind when writing that but it doesn’t go as full-on pop-punk as good 4 u does. So maybe it counts? Maybe it doesn’t? I dunno!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
More records: good 4 u has bigger week on spotify globally than drivrs license or any other track
― abcfsk, Saturday, 29 May 2021 11:38 (three years ago) link
good 4 u is so excellent and I wish more of this sounded like that. Also I was surprised to see Jam City credited in the production notes!
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 29 May 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
i was a little surprised too, but he's been showing up in pop production credits a bit more lately, like he was on the (quite good) troye sivan album a few years ago, on a conan grey song (with dan nigro, like on this album), and a few other places over the last few years
weirdly i just found out he played on david byrne's american utopia too
― ufo, Saturday, 29 May 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
the Dan Nigro thing is amazing too - like, how many of the most perfect songs of the past ten years can he have credits on?
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 29 May 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
I feel like the hypothetical missing track should come between Favorite Crime and Hope Ur OK… that transition feels particularly soft, and the album could use a final energy bump toward the end. That said, it’s still a front-to-back listen to me… and I guess better to leave it feeling a little light than beef it up with a weak tune!
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link