Olivia Rodrigo’s new album Guts begins with a killer opener: a observe referred to as “All-American Bitch.” The track is as punchy because the title suggests, although you would not have the ability to inform from the primary few notes.
Rodrigo begins by sweetly serenading over mild 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 track, taking part in good within the verses and raging within the choruses, every time rebelling towards the unattainable expectations to which ladies and women are held. (It’s not too far off from that Barbie monologue.) “I received class and integrity identical to a goddamn Kennedy, I swear,” she says, tongue-in-cheek, within the second verse. “I am horny and I am sort, I am fairly once I cry,” she repeats because the track closes.
She additionally makes positive to say how ladies are anticipated to suppress their anger, lest they be labeled as too emotional. “I do not get offended once I’m pissed, I am the everlasting optimist / I scream inside to take care of 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 track ‘All American Bitch,’” Rodrigo stated in a brand new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “It is considered one of 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of it and I feel it expresses one thing that I have been making an attempt to precise since I used to be 15 years outdated, this repressed pressed anger and feeling of confusion or making an attempt to be put right into a field as a woman. So yeah, I feel that that is considered one of my favourite songs on the document.”
She additionally stated of the themes of the album as an entire: “In hindsight, I feel that a number of this album is concerning the confusion that comes with turning 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 total lyrics under, 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 positive
And I’m constructed like a mom and a complete machine
I really feel on your each little situation, I do know simply what you imply
And I make mild of the darkness
I’ve received solar in my motherfuckin’ pocket
Finest imagine, yeah, 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 recent because the air
Coca-Cola bottles that I solely use to curve my hair
I received class and integrity identical 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 ideal all-American hips
I do know my place, I do know my place and that is it
I do not get offended once I’m pissed, I am the everlasting optimist
I scream inside to take care of it, like, “Ah”
Like, “Ah” (Let’s fucking go)[Outro]
On a regular basis, I am grateful on a regular basis
I am horny and I am sort, I am fairly once I cry
Oh, on a regular basis, I am grateful on a regular basis (All of the fucking time)
I am horny and I am sort, I am fairly once I cry
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection on TV, films, music, books, and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 % likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.