Olivia Rodrigo is opening up about her new music.
The 20-year-old superstar touched on her fresh track ‘Vampire’ and her sophomore album GUTS in an interview with Zane Lowe on New Music Daily on Apple Music 1.
During the conversation, Olivia talked about how ‘Vampire’ came to be. She spoke about the song’s origin, saying:
“I wrote the song on the piano, super chill, in December of last year. And my producer Dan and I finished it in January and finished writing it.
And I’ve just always been really obsessed with songs that are very dynamic. My favorite songs are high and low, and reel you in and spit you back out. And so we wanted to do a song where it just crescendoed the entire time and it reflects the pent-up anger that you have for a situation.”
She said about releasing her new music:
“I’m nervous, excited, terrified, happy, everything. Definitely eagerly anticipating putting these songs out.
I think I’ve lived with them for so long, I’m actually very excited to put them into someone else’s hands and not have ownership over them anymore.”
Olivia also spoke about her upcoming album GUTS:
“I feel like musically, we worked really hard to make something that felt fresh and new and exciting to me without completely just diverging from everything that we did on the last album.
And so to me, this new album GUTS and this new song ‘Vampire’ feels like a natural progression, a natural step forward in my life and sound and music.”
So what is the meaning behind GUTS? Olivia stated this:
“I’ve had it for a long time. I had it actually when I was making SOUR. I’m like, ‘I want the next one to be GUTS.’ I had it in my head. I’m like, ‘Four letters, all caps, just like SOUR.’
I love it. I just think it’s an interesting word. People use it in so many interesting contexts, like spilling your guts. Hate your guts, I think is a really interesting term. Means bravery, but it also means intuition, like listen to your gut. I just think it’s all of these things that coincidentally were things that I’ve really been thinking about in this chapter.”
And she shared her studio ‘hack’:
“I’m very emotional, and I think my background in child acting helps me a little bit get really emotional. And me and Dan, my producer, we sometimes have a joke where if I’m not giving a performance that’s emotional enough on the microphone, he’ll literally film me, and I’ll do better just because I’m being filmed. I got a hack. So next time you need an emotional performance, just film yourself.”
