It's been a bit since we posted about Olivia Rodrigo, so we felt we were due, since her 3rd album is expected to drop sometime this year.
We went all the way back to the beginning - to 2021, and her debut single (not counting her High School Musical stuff), from her debut album SOUR. The song, co-written by Rodrigo and her producer, Dan Nigro, is mature and drives right into the multifaceted feelings one might feel after a breakup.
The song was a record-breaker - it debuted at #1, making 17-year-old Rodrigo the youngest artists to ever do that (Billie Eilish was younger at #1, but did not debut there). It spent its first eight weeks, in fact, at #1.
It's actually quite a sad song, lyrically. And it's not one that I initially liked, although it's grown on me.
There are so many great performances of this song. I chose her Austin City Limits performance because, well, she is very clear about how much the song means to her.... and also, that's probably the youngest audience in ACL history.
In January, Rodrigo announced a project where other artists would be covering songs from SOUR. Alongside that was this version of "drivers license" by David Byrne.
He gets it.
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