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They each sing about boys and heartbreak, their albums zoom to the highest of the charts inside hours of launch they usually each have armies of followers who discover solace of their self-deprecating lyrics.
You couldn’t be blamed for pondering 20-year-old US pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo is Taylor Swift 2.0.
Some individuals are already pitting America’s two chart sweethearts towards one another, concocting a “feud” on social media.
Throughout her profession, 33-year-old Swift was roped into celeb feuds with Kanye West and Katy Perry, regardless of firmly stating she needed “no part” in them.
Rodrigo received’t be doing feuds.
“I don’t have beef with anyone,” she advised Rolling Stone when requested about her so-called “feud” with Swift.
“I’m very chill. I keep to myself. I have my four friends and my mom, and that’s really the only people I talk to, ever. There’s nothing to say.”
Olivia Rodrigo has served up a warts ‘n all pop diary to win over the critics with her feverishly hyped second album Guts. Credit: AP
In fact, Rodrigo is giving Gen Z a relatable flawed poster-girl they haven’t seen earlier than — not even in Swift.
Rodrigo rejects the “good girl that keeps quiet” expectation.
From singing to screaming, she explores self-loathing, aggressive obsessions, coming of age, heartbreak, thrills of delusion, social nervousness, and rejection in a piercingly brutal Gen Z twist wrapped up in a pop-rock sound.
All-American Bitch, the opening monitor on her second album Guts, which was launched final week, portrays the frustration of being a younger lady in the present day and the not possible expectations imposed upon them.
She softly sings lyrics reminiscent of “I am light as a feather, I’m as fresh as the air” and “I don’t get angry when I’m p…ed I’m the eternal optimist” earlier than emitting a howling screech.
The considered assembly an ex’s mom “just to tell her her son sucks”, publicly calling an ex a “fame-f…er” and admitting “every guy I like is gay” are examples of the confessional nature of Rodrigo’s lyrics, and her listeners relate to all too nicely.
Olivia Rodrigo performs on the Glastonbury Festival in 2022. Credit: Scott Garfitt/AP
She rejects the “good girl” pop star persona, an archetype that Swift fell sufferer to.
Swift, now 33, admitted in her Miss Americana Netflix documentary it had been exhausting all the time being the “shiny” one.
“It’s a lot to process because we do exist in this society where women in entertainment are discarded in an elephant graveyard at 35,” she stated.
“Everyone is a shiny new toy for like two years. The female artists have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male artists. They have to or else you’re out of a job. Constantly having to reinvent, constantly finding new facets of yourself that people find to be shiny.”
