#1 Billboard songwriter REACTS to Olivia Rodrigo’s stupid song
I’m going on TOUR!!! If you guys sell out the show I will sing the entire version of SPF with the never before heard secret V2!
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Thx for watching!! 🙂
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This song really has that Olivia Rodrigo energy
Also I love how the rain is just a sprinkler. For some reason it made me laugh
It's a really good song. I've heard just over half of the album so far and have been liking some of the other songs more that weren't highlighted.
I love (and agree with!) most of your thoughts. I thought the chorus really brought down the energy of the song the second and third times it played. It felt almost like she let out a say and said, "let's get this over with", those times it came to the chorus. The phrasing on the chorus is so legato and connected that it just feels like one big, awkward, long phrase. I think Drop Dead was much the same way. I agree with you though that bridge was so good, it was probably my favorite musical moment from her ever.
Though I didn't really like Expectations all that much, it felt too much like a mix of Material Girl by Madonna and U Should Not Be Doing That by Amyl and The Sniffers without the sonic bombast of those two songs. It kind exemplifies the problems that I had with the production on a lot of the songs on the album. A lot of it seemed like it was lowpass filtered to sound, I assume, "vintage", but it just sounds rather dull, especially on the instrumentals. It sounded better when I pushed mids and a little highs with an eq.
There was also a lot of cases on the album where a lot of the attack of the notes was rounded off and sounded kind of blah. I think it was from lots of distortion, since it always seemed on distorted instrumentals and vocals, but I'm not well-versed enough to know the cause for sure (I'm not a musical professional like you!).
Maggots For Brains and U + Me = <3 were my favorite on the album. Personally, I think Olivia is at her best when she does 2010s pop rock like on So American and Love Is Embarrassing. I would really love to see what she would make if she worked with the genuine 2010s pop rocker Jack Antonoff.
I think the bodega cats are a quintessential part of NY, I'm not sure if there was a deeper meaning there, but I'd love to know more and be wrong!
definitely her worst album… I miss her during sour
0:37 Wow Elli…. that's just a new low. But I freaking love this song, I think you should do a video breaking down "expectations" next…. maybe… possibly…. 😀
I didn't like how it started but loved it by the end
I think people are confused by the fact that the ballerinas are clearly symbolic (not even there) and assume the cats are too.
But look at the story. She leaves a party that went all night. She wanders into a bodega. She (along with her feelings… the ballerinas) almost walk into traffic on Central Park West. She enters the park and her daydreaming breaks when a sprinkler dumps water on her.
The cats (but not the piano or her band) were really in that bodega. Theyre in MOST bodegas. Theyre not symbols, just part of the setting.
I agree with your criticism at the end I feel like Olivia is capable of more. I wasn’t a huge fan of this album unfortunately.
Omg a Miley and Olivia collab would break the internet I swear 🤪
But I also think that the restraint is the point tho. Guts feel like her. A more angst version of SOUR. Narratively she did challenged herself to write songs about being in love. I agree that you want a challenge as a listener but you know. What if that was not the point? Because if suddenly she shifts herself to some more miley cyrus type, I think that would betray her narrative and her brand that she established on the course of 6 years.