The unexpected pop success demonstrates how difficult life is at the top on her second album, "Guts," which boasts rock bravado and singer-songwriter tenderness.
Hiding the work is one of the essential requirements—or objectives?—for becoming a pop star.
Even while you may witness Beyoncé sweat or observe how Taylor Swift's personal struggles influence her artistic vision
the most well-known pop musicians rarely make references to the financial and emotional costs associated with crafting their songs.
That is Olivia Rodrigo's original strategy as a contemporary and reasonably recognizable pop star. She released "Drivers License," her first single outside the Disney milieu where she was raised creatively
at the start of 2021, and had a supernova climb that was impossible to predict or duplicate.
She emerged as a sharp-witted, colorful writer and vocalist on her startling debut album, "Sour," which was released a few months later, but one who hadn't fully seen the world.
Rodrigo has seen too much by the time she released her profoundly troubled, psychologically and sonically agitated follow-up album, "Guts," two years later.