Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s 10 best songs ranked Flickr: Justin HiguchiBreakout Olivia Rodrigo took pop music by storm with her perfect blend of pop and punk. She can also rip into a ballad with great force \u2014 so what are her 10 best songs? While starring in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Olivia Rodrigo blasted onto the pop scene with her resonant \u201cdrivers license,\u201d capturing the pummeling crash after a terrible heartbreak. The sweeping ballad served as the lead single to her debut LP, Sour, which is packed full of teary ballads and propulsive rompers. With her second album, 2023\u2019s Guts, Rodrigo continued to flex tremendous growth both in musical playfulness and her vocal prowess. There\u2019s always a fear among artists of the \u201csophomore slump,\u201d but Guts is certainly the exception; it\u2019s even stronger than her debut. Here, we\u2019ve compiled Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s 10 best songs and ranked them, from good to awesome. Did your favorites make our definitive list? 10. \u201cbrutal\u201d When listening to Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s debut album, Sour, you\u2019ll notice a distinct Paramore thread. The pop-punkishness of one of the biggest bands informs much of the pop starlet\u2019s uptempo songs. The slow grinding of tempo changes displays rapt attention to agile musicality. \u201cI\u2019m so sick of 17 \/ Where\u2019s my f*cking teenage dream,\u201d Rodrigo sings over heart-throbbing percussion. Her admission bottles up the general angst of Gen Z, one riddled with paranoia and fear for the world\u2019s future. 9. \u201cdeja vu\u201d Similar in tone to \u201cdrivers license,\u201d \u201cdeja vu\u201d sees a forlorn Ridrigo musing upon a former flame, who has now moved on to another girl. \u201cWhen you gonna tell her that we did that too?\u201d she asks, her lips laced with venom. Her lyrics are equally confessional as they are universal, burrowing into heartache and that immense feeling of betrayal anyone who\u2019s had their heart shattered knows all too well. Musically, it might feel familiar, but vocally, Rodrigo knocks it out of the park. 8. \u201cdrivers license\u201d A global smash right out of the gate, \u201cdrivers license\u201d signaled an artist that was fully formed in plenty of ways. Over piano keys, Rodrigo pours out her heart and soul with everything she has. As the song crescendos, the singer\u2019s voice climbs higher and higher, fluttering into her head voice when the song calls for it. Her ability to deliver such a potent melody, carving out each word with precision, is magnetizing. 7. \u201cget him back!\u201d \u201cI want sweet revenge \/ I want him again,\u201d sings Rodrigo, plotting her path to perfect revenge. Over syncopated drums and swirling static, the singer voices her loneliness and how desperately she wants \u201cto make him jealous.\u201d She sets her sights on getting back her ex so she can rip him to shreds. Even with the side-eyes from her disappointed friends, she goes ahead with her plan anyway. Sometimes, you just have to do things that are bad for you. 6. \u201call-american b*tch\u201d Leave it to Olivia Rodrigo to have a song called \u201call-american b*tch.\u201d Guitars quake in the arrangement and slowly build until it all crashes around her voice. The song oscillates between sweet coos to throaty screams, a showcase for the singer\u2019s willingness to tinker with expectation. Even within the finale\u2019s screeching, there\u2019s an overwhelming intoxication that spills from her lungs. 5. \u201cgood 4 u\u201d Another Paramore-inspired track, Olivia Rodrigo digs her teeth into the dirt and shoots flames from her tongue. \u201cI\u2019ve lost my mind \/ I\u2019ve spent the night crying on the floor of my bedroom \/ But you\u2019re so unaffected,\u201d she spits over rattling guitars. Her defining kiss-off anthem, \u201cgood 4 u\u201d writhes relentlessly against the eardrums. It\u2019s no wonder it\u2019s one of her most streamed tracks (over 2 billion); it\u2019s that track that gets the blood pumping in all the right ways. 4. \u201chappier\u201d The waltz-like time signature douses the song with a coating of emotional shimmer. \u201cI hope you\u2019re happy but not like how you were with me \/ I\u2019m selfish I know,\u201d she sings, letting her tears fall upon startling piano. \u201chappier\u201d trembles with a classic pop vibration, as though Rodrigo is paying homage to such greats as Lesley Gore and Patti Page. 3. \u201cvampire\u201d When you think Olivia Rodrigo can\u2019t possibly get better, vocally, she pulls the rug out from under you. With \u201cVampire,\u201d the lead-in to Guts, the pop performer dazzles with a daily-laced track about how a lover is just like a vampire, sucking the energy from her veins. \u201cBloodsucker, fame f*cker \/ Bleeding me dry like a godd*mn vampire,\u201d she sings. Musically, it\u2019s among her finest, as each instrument builds to an explosive ending. 2. \u201clogical\u201d The quiet moments can destroy you as much (if not more so) as the loud ones. \u201clogical\u201d finds Rodrigo pulling in the reins for a performance that rips your heart from your chest. As she documents \u201cthe way it unraveled,\u201d she finds herself arriving upon the song\u2019s central promise: that \u201clove is never logical.\u201d As the way it ended crashed down around her, she was unable to extricate herself from the ruin. It\u2019s within such destruction that she learned what it meant to live and to love, despite the inevitable ending. 1. \u201ctraitor\u201d Through glassy ahhhs, Olivia Rodrigo unloads emotional baggage as she navigates the rising tide waters of betrayal. \u201cYou talked to her when we were together,\u201d she weeps, before adding: \u201cIt took you two weeks to go off and date her \/ Guess you didn\u2019t cheat, but you\u2019re still a traitor.\u201d Her lyric writing is like a dog\u2019s incisors, mercilessly sharp and able to cut through flesh. It doesn\u2019t get much better than \u201ctraitor.\u201d For more entertainment news, keep it locked to Dexerto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s 10 best songs ranked Flickr: Justin HiguchiBreakout Olivia Rodrigo took pop music by storm with her perfect blend of pop and punk. She can also rip into a ballad with great force \u2014 so what are her 10 best songs? While starring in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Olivia Rodrigo blasted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}