Over Night Sensation (Random Mind-Wandering)

It is not often I write something like this, but here goes nothing.

Olivia Rodrigo is absolutely massive right now, and she only has one solo album, and zero singles. Though she does have singles and compilations under her name, every last one of them was written and sung for (and possibly even written by someone else for) Highschoool Musical the Musical the Series (can you please stick to one name, please? Also, what's with the redundancy?).

On May 21st, she released an album (SOUR) and absolutely exploded. No one talked about her before, she was not exactly famous for singing, no one was talking about going to see her in concert. She was just known as that one girl who played the cute dumb one in that stupid show with Jake Paul on Disney Channel, and now plays... I dunno. Whoever she plays in Redundancy the Series. And, yes, I know the name of the show was Bizaardvark.

Well, she released her album and, next thing you know, she is absolutely everywhere. Thirteen year old girls absolutely love her music, and she is on the radio.

I didn't really think anything of it. A lot of artists kind of emerge out of nowhere these days (Lil Tecca and Lil Nas X, both of whom I don't listen to for... well, we'll get into that).

I try to avoid artists with massive followings. Number one in the world sends off red flags after listening to what everyone calls amazing, what critics call the album of the year, and artists who seem to have an overwhelmingly positive feedback typically tells me "Beats slap, lyrics are kind of just a bunch of meaningless nothing." It sounds good, but it isn't music and I don't like it. Music (when referring to music with lyrics) should have meaning. I'm not saying you shouldn't like it... you do you. I just don't think they are deserving of album of the year, or greatest artist ever, et cetera. And I'm not going to listen to them... because I don't listen to music for how it sounds.

After a few months, I finally caved and gave the song that everyone was falling head-over-heels for a listen. I read up on the backstory, gave Sabrina Carpenter's reply a listen (which kinda sucked, in my opinion. Skin, if you're wondering). I forgot about it until yesterday.

I was at a wedding, working, and I couldn't help but find humor in the fact that they were playing good 4 u at the wedding. This song, if you are not aware, is Rodrigo's biggest song. It is also about how a guy she used to date moved on way too fast, she feels like crap, and she can see he is happy with having moved on to someone else so quickly. Why would you play that at a wedding?

Well, hearing it again made me start thinking. And I realized something.

Her over night sensation status is not entirely undeserving.

Now, I have not listened to anything else from her. But her biggest song? Well, it's actually pretty good. Musically and melodically, it's great. I know there is a controversy on whether or not she stole the melody, but let's ignore that. How it sounds, though important, isn't top priority. Lyrically? It is surprisingly good. I actually enjoyed it.

She talks about how the break up affected her, what hurts her about him moving on... It's actually good.

That's all I had to say. I just wanted to talk about it. Thanks for reading!