Olivia Rodrigo’s new album Guts begins with a killer opener: a observe referred to as “All-American Bitch.” The music is as punchy because the title suggests, although you would not be capable of inform from the primary few notes.
Rodrigo begins by sweetly serenading over light guitar strumming, describing a picture of perfection: “I’m mild as a feather and as stiff as a board / I take note of issues that most individuals ignore.” However when the drums hit within the refrain, virtually like a tantrum, the guitars begin shredding and Rodrigo brings on the angst: “I forgive and I neglect / I do know my age and I act prefer it.”
She does this all through the music, enjoying good within the verses and raging within the choruses, every time rebelling towards the unattainable expectations to which ladies and ladies are held. (It’s not too far off from that Barbie monologue.) “I received class and integrity similar to a goddamn Kennedy, I swear,” she says, tongue-in-cheek, within the second verse. “I am attractive and I am form, I am fairly after I cry,” she repeats because the music closes.
She additionally makes certain to say how ladies are anticipated to suppress their anger, lest they be labeled as too emotional. “I do not get indignant after I’m pissed, I am the everlasting optimist / I scream inside to cope with it, like, ‘Ah,’” she sings within the bridge. All of the whereas, the melody swings from candy to bitter (pardon the pun), angelic to chaotic. At instances, Rodrigo’s vocals even sound Alanis and Avril-inspired.
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“I actually love the music ‘All American Bitch,’” Rodrigo mentioned in a brand new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “It is one in all my favourite songs I’ve ever written. I actually love the lyrics of it and I feel it expresses one thing that I have been making an attempt to specific since I used to be 15 years previous, this repressed pressed anger and feeling of confusion or making an attempt to be put right into a field as a lady. So yeah, I feel that that is one in all my favourite songs on the file.”
She additionally mentioned of the themes of the album as an entire: “In hindsight, I feel that a variety of this album is in regards to the confusion that comes with changing into a younger grownup and determining your house on this world and determining who you need to be and who you need to hang around with and all of that stuff. I feel that that is most likely an expertise that everybody has had of their life earlier than, is simply that rising from that disillusionment.”
Learn the complete lyrics beneath, courtesy of Genius.
[Verse 1]
I’m mild as a feather and as stiff as a board
I take note of issues that most individuals ignore
And I am alright with the films that make jokes ’bout mindless cruelty
That is for certain
And I’m constructed like a mom and a complete machine
I really feel on your each little challenge, I do know simply what you imply
And I make mild of the darkness
I’ve received solar in my motherfuckin’ pocket
Greatest imagine, yeah, you realize me[Chorus]
I forgive and I neglect
I do know my age and I act prefer it
Obtained what you’ll be able to’t resist
I am an ideal all-American[Verse 2]
I’m mild as a feather, I am as contemporary because the air
Coca-Cola bottles that I solely use to twist my hair
I received class and integrity similar to a goddamn Kennedy, I swear
With like to spare[Chorus]
Forgive and I neglect
I do know my age and I act prefer it
Obtained what you’ll be able to’t resist
I am an ideal all-American bitch[Bridge]
With good all-American lips
And excellent all-American hips
I do know my place, I do know my place and that is it
I do not get indignant after I’m pissed, I am the everlasting optimist
I scream inside to cope with it, like, “Ah”
Like, “Ah” (Let’s fucking go)[Outro]
On a regular basis, I am grateful on a regular basis
I am attractive and I am form, I am fairly after I cry
Oh, on a regular basis, I am grateful on a regular basis (All of the fucking time)
I am attractive and I am form, I am fairly after I cry
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection on TV, motion pictures, music, books, and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 % likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.
