REVIEW: ‘GUTS’
In my stan era.
It's been a minute girlies but I’m back. Tickets to the Eras Tour and ‘Guts’ tour secured. Just waiting for the snatched waist and endless supply of cash to complete my bucket list.
Whilst I’ve been away, Miss Olivia Rodrigo went ahead and released her sophomore album ‘Guts’. Olivia Rodrigo has delivered. She’s delivered the solid album I knew she would.
The Disney star-to-pop star pipeline for many is filled with um bumps...
But somehow Olivia has come out the other end unscathed.
I know people were complaining about the album cover and the visuals. Let's be real, it’s cute.
Let's be so real. She isn't going to serve cunt on an album about teenage boys that’s being bankrolled by Disney.
The album is cute. Its “something sweet for the kids.” Olivia is only 20. She is not going to go from her AGE-APPROPRIATE style to busting it open for the whole world to see.
I will say it does feel like something is missing on the visuals side of things.
Maybe she's taking a leaf out of Beyonce’s book and maybe WE ARE THE VISUALS.
The cover is cute, she has her whole career to give us the big bucks visuals. I loved the album. It’s the sonic love child of Demi Lovato's ‘Here We Go Again’ album and Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’. But enough with the comparing. Olivia is really in a league of her own. She minds her business, which is rare.
The album has 12 tracks that emanate pure, unfiltered teenage angst. Olivia has also released Guts bonus songs “Obsessed,” “Scared of My Guitar,” “Stranger” and “Girl I've Always Been” which can be found on the viny variations of the album.
YASSSS GO OFF CAPITALIST QUEEN!
Anyway, I thought I would share my thoughts on the album.
Here we go. My honest (very late reaction) reaction.
Track 1: “all american bitch”
“And I make light of the darkness
I've got sun in my motherfuckin' pocket”
Olivia gave us emo realness. This song would have ATE on a soundtrack for a 2000s teen comedy.
Very “Cut my life into pieces This is my last resort” of Olivia
Track 2: “bad Idea right?”
“Seein' you tonight, it's a bad idea, right?
Seein' you tonight, whatever, it's fine”
Seeing him tonight is a terrible idea girlie pops. Keep that negative energy away
Track 3: “vampire”
“Bloodsucker, famefucker
Bleedin' me dry, like a goddamn vampire”
Now Olivia, you’ve only gone and fallen in love with an energy vampire. And what do energy vampires thrive off?
Track 4: “lacy”
“Lacy, oh Lacy, I just loathe you lately
And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you
Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you”
I interpreted this song as being about the idealised version we create of ourselves in our heads.
Track 5: “ballad of a homeschool girl”
“I stumbled over all my words
I made it weird, I made it worse”
Ugh this is one is for me and about me. Socially awkward and anxious? Olivia is my twin FOR REAL!
Track 6: “making the bed”
“I'm so tired of bein' the girl that I am
Every good thing has turned into somethin' I dread”
Who doesn’t love a self-deprecating ballad?
Track 7: “logical”
“2+2=5”
My first thought was BARBZ STAY IN SCHOOL.
In this track Olivia sings about how love has her throwing logic out of the window.
Her homeschool teacher (probably her mother or father) hearing Olivia singing that she thought 2+2=5
Track 8: “get him back”
“I wanna break his heart, stitch it right back up (But then I, I want to get him back; get him back)
I wanna kiss his face with an uppercut (But then I, I want to get him back; I want to)”
WE SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THEIR WRONGS!
Track 9: “love is embarrassing”
“Just watch as I crucify myself, hey, hey, hey
For some weird second string
Loser who's not worth mentioning
My God, love's embarrassing as hell”
Would eat glass before I let a man embarrass me.
Track 10: “the grudge”
“The arguments that I've won against you in my head
In the shower, in the car, and in the mirror before bed
Yeah, I'm so tough when I'm alone, and I make you feel so guilty”
Olivia convincing herself she’s ok.
Track 11: “pretty isn't pretty”
“I could try every lipstick in every shade
But I'd always feel the same
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough”
One thing about Olivia she will self-deprecate like her life depends on it.
Track 12: “teenage dream”
“I'll blow out the candles, happy birthday to me
Got your whole life ahead of you, you're only nineteen
But I fear that they already got all the best parts of me
And I'm sorry that I couldn't always be your teenage dream”
A beautiful ode to Olivia’s teenage years.
Final Thoughts:
Things Olivia did: THAT.
She beat the sophomore curse and its only onwards and upwards for her xx