Young women are no strangers to older men. They linger like a stain on your favorite t-shirt or a vampire, Olivia Rodrigo sings. Whether it's a night out with your friends or the super friendly guy at work, they are always around like an all-knowing omnipresence ready to pounce. The 20-year-old Rodrigo, who's an eternal angsty teenager, so perfectly encapsulates this in her newest album "Guts."
The former Disney starlet grew to superstardom because of her pandemic-hit album "Sour." In songs like "Driver's license" and "Good 4 u" the then-teenager sang about vile jealousy, her first big public heartbreak and longing for the idealistic teenage dream we are told our adolescence should be. In her sophomore album, Rodrigo spills her guts, figuratively. Between her first and second albums, two years have passed, and she has begun dating older men who do not take her seriously: "When am I gonna stop being a pretty young thing to guys?" She's completely devoid of whatever innocence she had on "Sour" and her flaming, red-hot anger is pointed at "some weird second-string loser who's not worth mentioning."
