Olivia Rodrigo

Everyone loves The Cure the most.

I mean, The Cure is obviously a great song.

It's a centerpiece.

But when I was listening to it in the context of the album, I was like, this makes the most sense in the context of the entire album.

Because it really is connective thread.

From A to B. But in these micro moments.

And also, I love a wailing ass chorus.

Hell yeah.

I love a whale.

You know, but like even the turn of phrase, I mean, you know, I wrote down a bunch of different lyrics, even the turn of phrase on begged, nothing's quite enough when I know that to get it, I begged.

And just the sophistication of that sentiment, the understanding that just because you may have gotten something, it doesn't mean that it was the thing that you thought you were chasing.

And the fact that you actually might be respond, like you might've invented the salute, like you might've invented it out of thin air and then it wasn't actually real because you were sort of forcing it.

Like incredibly sophisticated thought process.

Yeah.

I think that's a difference also between like an album, like,

Sour and this album, like when you're in a relationship that's deeper and you're older and it's more nuanced, it's less like, fuck you for doing this to me.

Like, it's like, oh, I think that song was like, oh yeah, this happened because I set this up and like, you fell short, but I didn't really, you never promised that you were going to do that.

And like, it's like a, it's definitely more nuanced take than I feel like I had the emotional capacity to write about before.

Sure.

And so, yeah, that song is, that song is really special to me.