does olivia rodrigo break pens in her hands from writing so hard??

one night-drive conversation changed how I view creativity forever

does anyone else wonder about the ironically terrible taste of the “sour” stickers?

*today, I’m applying snippets and ideas behind one of my chapters to the new release of Olivia Rodrigo’s album. it’s not quite an excerpt, but it definitely is PERF*

“hi there! my name is olivia! I’m 18 years old and writing songs is my favorite thing to do in the world. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember and I fall more in love with it every day.”

These first lines into Olivia Rodrigo’s website—a bloggish introduction surrounded by an aughts scrapbook aesthetic of photos either “taped” or “cut and glued” onto the webpage—sound so familiar as to be anonymous. This could be anyone’s MySpace.

And yet, it’s Olivia Rodrigo, the fastest shooting star of the pandemic. Though she had a leg up on fame from acting in Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (yes, that’s the full name), her first single “drivers license” blew up. She had 15 million streams in a day, breaking Ariana Gran…