20-year-old Olivia Rodrigo has just dropped her sophomore album ‘GUTS’. For backstory, Rodrigo has been an actress since she was 12, having started in 2015. Later on, she debuted her singing career with her first single ‘Driver’s License’ in 2021; her freshman album, SOUR, was released in the same year. No more music was released, until this year. The song ‘vampire’ dropped on June 30th, 2023, with ‘bad idea right?’ being released soon after on August 11th, 2023. Rodrigo released GUTS, on September 8th, 2023; the album containing those singles and 10 other songs. The album showed amazing reviews, with fans seeming to love every song on the album, specifically ‘the grudge,’ but her track ‘vampire’ holds a special place in many hearts. The album was created between Olivia Rodrigo and her producer, Dan Niego. The album together has a track length of 39:12.
Following SOUR’s success, Rodrigo made many of the songs in GUTS more upbeat and rock. Rodrigo states that GUTS gave her more confidence as a songwriter, as she wanted to make the songs more hardcore because she found certain heavier songs on SOUR, like ‘brutal’, more fun for her to perform because of the rock vibe the song had. Within the first week of GUTS’s release, the album had made it to number 1 on Billboard 200. According to Google, a vote of people put the album at 4.3 out of 5 stars. Olivia Rodrigo has also just announced her GUTS world tour, starting in February of 2024, which had people register for tickets or be put on a waitlist.