Throughout the song, Rodrigo describes her feelings for Lacy as all-consuming, double-edged, almost aggressive, like when you see a cute animal and instinctively clench your teeth. And the delicious tension continues to build. Instantly, from the very first couplet, this has become one of my favorite Rodrigo tracks ever. Jolene, Betty, Amelie: meet Lacy, "the sweetest thing on this side of Hell." Rodrigo ties it to "All-American Bitch" by including a door knock at the end of the first track, on which she utters the line, "I know my age, and I act like it." "Bad Idea Right?" is no better example of that - this is the kind of irresponsible, risky behavior only a 19-year-old can sell with complete conviction.Īs Julien Baker sings on boygenius' single "$20" from earlier this year: it's a bad idea, and I'm all about it.Īhlgrim: Rodrigo has become the latest female songwriter to serenade another woman with excruciating awe. On its own, it's one hell of an earworm I too can't hear my thoughts when my brain is repeating "I should probably, probably not / I should probably, probably not" all day long.īut listening to it for the first time within the confines of "Guts" was its own special experience. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but just like "Deja Vu," I personally can't get enough of "Bad Idea Right?" and have already streamed it 90 times since it dropped a month ago. Larocca: I don't know what it is about Rodrigo's second singles that makes fans not want to stream them with such ferocity that they hit No. Suddenly, the idea of an audience makes her voice come alive. Indeed, she told the BBC that her creative partner, Dan Nigro, will start filming her in the studio if she's not properly invested. It's more than an anecdote - it's a show, a performance, and Rodrigo is gunning for that Oscar, baby. Pressing play on "Bad Idea Right?" gives me the same kind of jolt as when my best friend sends me a juicy voice note. Her extravagant delivery of lines like "I'm sensing some undertone," "I just tripped and fell into his bed," and "I'm sure I've seen much hotter men / But I really can't remember when," makes the song feel like an event. "Bad Idea Right" was released as the second single from "Guts" on August 11, 2023.Īhlgrim: "Bad Idea Right?" is the perfect example of what makes Rodrigo unique in a crowded world of pop stars.
Now, here comes Rodrigo with a banger straight out of the year she was born.
#OLIVIA RODRIGO GOOD FOR YOU LYRICS CLEAN MOVIE#
That first key change sent chills through my entire body the first (and the second, and the third, and the 17th) time I heard it.Ī few months ago, I said to somebody that I'm surprised more artists aren't putting out Y2K-inspired music considering how much of a trend it is in every other aspect of life right now, from movie rewatches to street style. Larocca: "All-American Bitch" is early-aughts-rom-com-chick-flick-Avril-Lavigne-Hannah Montana perfection and I am utterly obsessed. The outro, delivered in her sickly sweet falsetto, ties it all together: "I'm grateful all the time / I'm sexy and I'm kind / I'm pretty when I cry." On the surface, it's a brag. She is "light as a feather and as stiff as a board," sensitive yet chill, classy like a Kennedy but swearing like a sailor. In a breathless tirade, Rodrigo rages against the same double standards. Expected to do the impossible and still remain pleasant.
They villainize their mothers, the classic scapegoats, who were most likely struggling with their own demons - frustrated, hamstrung, limited by the impossible contradictions of womanhood.
Rodrigo's own song plays with the dichotomy of this passage: Debbie and Jeff represent the beauty of youth and rebellion, but also naivety. The phrase appears in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," when Didion asks two teenagers, Debbie and Jeff, why they ran away from home.ĭebbie, Didion writes, "was already on probation because her mother had once taken her down to the police station and declared her incorrigible." Jeff describes his own mother as "a genuine all-American bitch." "All-American Bitch" is the first track on "Guts."Īhlgrim: In a conversation with Phoebe Bridgers for Interview magazine, Rodrigo revealed that "All-American Bitch" was inspired by Joan Didion.
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