By Quinn Moreland
GENRE:Pop/R&B
LABEL:Geffen
REVIEWED:June 30, 2023
The scorching, crescendoing lead single from Guts goes to town on an opportunistic ex.
When Olivia Rodrigo revealed the cover of her second album, Guts, some fans shot off complaints about how the artwork, a portrait of Rodrigo posed against a shadowy violet backdrop, was too similar to the cover of 2021’s Sour. The expectation that every new pop record must possess its own unmistakable aesthetic, heralding the arrival of a distinct new “era,” feels overwhelming in 2023. So it’s meaningful that “Vampire,” the first new music from Rodrigo since she evolved from a Disney Channel starlet to a Grammy-winning superstar, builds off the model of “drivers license,” her debut single that framed young love through a plastic symbol of adulthood.
GENRE:Pop/R&B
LABEL:Geffen
REVIEWED:June 30, 2023
The scorching, crescendoing lead single from Guts goes to town on an opportunistic ex.
When Olivia Rodrigo revealed the cover of her second album, Guts, some fans shot off complaints about how the artwork, a portrait of Rodrigo posed against a shadowy violet backdrop, was too similar to the cover of 2021’s Sour. The expectation that every new pop record must possess its own unmistakable aesthetic, heralding the arrival of a distinct new “era,” feels overwhelming in 2023. So it’s meaningful that “Vampire,” the first new music from Rodrigo since she evolved from a Disney Channel starlet to a Grammy-winning superstar, builds off the model of “drivers license,” her debut single that framed young love through a plastic symbol of adulthood.
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