#happier by olivia rodrigo

[maines]

It's your psc secret🎅 again. Wow! we literally have similar tastes and opinion on the characters and dynamics in ALTA, at least based on your previous response. Changing directions a little, What are your favorite color(s) and song(s)?

nice :D i don't know if i really have a favorite color sbut i like turquoise and maroon!!

nice!! :D

i don't know if i really have a favorite color so i'll send some color palettes (using this website)

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my favorite albums are heard it in a past life by maggie rogers, folklore by taylor swift, and when we all fall asleep by billie eilish :)

[dizzyfizzydarling]

2021 // 2024

[autumnrory]

"Hands Clean", Alanis Morissette / "Don't Even Try It", Jai-da / "Dear John", Taylor Swift / "Motion Sickness", Phoebe Bridgers / "Happier Than Ever", Billie Eilish / "29", Demi Lovato / "Your Age", Rina Sawayama / "Would've Could've Should've", Taylor Swift / "vampire", Olivia Rodrigo / "logical", Olivia Rodrigo / "The Manuscript", Taylor Swift

[myrottenmind]

HAPPIER by Olivia Rodrigo, driving home 2 u (2022)

[pinofdnp]

cause i love you, and i hope that you're okay

[shellstudios]

Does anyone know any songs about one-sided love or being in love with your best friend or "I want to break up but still be friends."? I've been having some really big friendship/relationship problems for a few months now and what do I do with my problems? I make a coping playlist about them and cry myself to sleep every night. :) /j (mostly)

So far my playlist consists of:

You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)

One Last Time (Ariana Grande)

She Said No (BoyWithUke)

happier (Olivia Rodrigo)

This is my first break up and I just feel so worthless in life right now. Please comment songs like these. 🙏

[swearphil]

I'm selfish, I know. I can't let you go.

[alpharossi]

gotye, somebody that i used to know // olivia rodrigo, enough for you // taylor swift, cruel summer // lana del rey, ultraviolence // unknown source // lana del rey, hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have // richard silken, crush

[whalesharkgummer]

[maybxlle]

all american bitch 🤝 happier than ever

[dizzyfizzydarling]

Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo speaking about each other for the Los Angeles Times

[thissmycomingofage]

Olivia playing the entirety of both of her albums except hope ur ok on the guts world tour is my villain origin story

[a-moth-to-the-light]

Current Top Ten Olivia Rodrigo Songs

I've found myself talking about Olivia Rodrigo's music a lot lately (mostly screeching about entry #2), so I'm finally going to give her a list! Though I've never been much of a "drivers license" fan, I still got really into her with the release of SOUR--the end of my junior year in high school could have been soundtracked solely with that album (+ "Rollin'" by Brave Girls!).

1. good 4 u

I mean, I would love to have a more surprising pick for number one, but this one's a classic for a reason! Like, I remember what was going on in my life when I first heard "good 4 u"--it's a landmark all on its own. And that dramatic lead-in to the bridge? I feel my heart explode in my chest every. single. time.

2. girl i've always been

This one is new, but it blew me away from the first listen. It's not a big spectacle like "so american", but the understated acoustic atmosphere is executed so well that I can't look away! This country-inspired sound is unusual for Olivia, but she acclimates to it so well, I think--I feel so comfortable in this song, it doesn't feel unfamiliar at all. And the line "well, I have captors I call friends" is worth a spot on this list all on its own.

3. jealousy, jealousy

This is my "brutal". In "jealousy, jealousy", the burn-it-all-down angst we know and love Olivia Rodrigo's music for has been smoothed out --it's cold, cruel, withdrawn. It's the girl dressed in all black who sits alone at lunch and glares at the popular kids from across the cafeteria, taking on her loneliness with grace and elegance and absolutely vicious resignation, and when I listen to this song, I get to feel as cool and above-it-all as that girl for a few minutes. I don't actually want to be this imaginary girl, but Olivia's music often lets me play a character for a bit--and this one is by far my favorite!

4. 1 step forward, 3 steps back

Okay this has, like, sentimental value. "1 step forward, 3 steps back" was there for me when I really needed it... I love how delicate it is, and I love harmonizing to the bridge, but it's really just here because I keep it like a security blanket.

5. all-american bitch

The ballads on GUTS didn't really work for me--the lyrics felt uncomfortably blunt, too generalized to be impactful, more like lectures than stories. But "all-american bitch", a big rock track with lots of screaming??? These lyrics GOT ME. My nonbinary experience of femininity has its own nuances, but all the stereotypes and expectations placed on the Perfect Good Girl still affect so much of who I am. In "all-american bitch", the bluntness of the lyrics actually works in its favor. It's scathing--just straight-up listing all the stereotypes and expectations and judgements placed on women is revealing, exposing their contradictions, and I think it takes away a little of their power. Honestly, this song is so powerful that it's a little much for me most of the time--I tend to avoid it, despite how much I like it--but I can't deny how fantastic it is.

6. favorite crime

Admittedly, I think "Partner in Crime - Spotify Singles" by Lucy Dacus is this song but better. I like both songs a whole lot, though, and the vocal layering in "favorite crime" is a shot right through the heart.

7. enough for you

This is pretty much interchangeable with "favorite crime"--a solid storyline with a genuine, compellingly fragile performance. I don't know, it just works!

8. get him back!

The flat delivery in the verses set against the soaring chorus is EVERYTHING. This is a low-stakes song, about a guy we never really liked anyway, so it's pure fun and wordplay and screaming just because you can.

9. can't catch me now

God, the vocal layering is breathtaking. (Look, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like when the harmonies do the harmony thing!!!!!)

10. ballad of a homeschooled girl

I think this song is hilarious--"ballad of a homeschooled girl" takes all the self-policing and overanalyzing and internal screaming required to be seen as 'normal', that constant stream of 'no don't do that no you can't say that no stop oh shit what did i just do she probably thinks i'm so weird', and turns up the intensity to the point where it's a sort of comedy skit. I think it's absolutely delightful to scream my worries out through this song, to honestly express the daily stresses of just existing outside my house and laugh about them, too. (Also, the "every guy I like is gay" line just makes me laugh, though I've heard that my take is an unpopular one.)

honorable mentions: happier, bad idea right?, love is embarrassing (WATCH AS I CRUCIFY MYSELF !!!!!), teenage dream (yeah i like this one, kind of against my will but i think it works way better than the other guts ballads!), so american (OH GOD I'M GONNA MARRY HIM / IF HE KEEPS THIS SHIT UP !!!)

[theladwhoisweird]

I came across a picture of both of you together again and it's piercing me inside.

[stormyrainyday]

hope ur ok by olivia rodrigo makes me want to dissolve into a puddle its like yes i remember you, old friend, yes i still think about you, yes i remember the things we went through, yes it's been years and i am probably nothing more than a passing thought to you now but i love you i love you i love you and i hope more than anything that you are okay now