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Post by amg1977 on Oct 13, 2021 9:25:17 GMT -5
If anyone could be called the breakout star of the pandemic, it is Olivia Rodrigo. Olivia began taking vocal, piano, and acting lessons as a young child and became interested in songwriting from listening to Taylor Swift (during Taylor's country period).
After spots in an Old Navy commercial and an American Girl film, she got her big break by landing the role of Paige Olvera in the Disney Channel series Bizardvark (2016-2019). During that run, she made an EP with her costar Madison Hu featuring music from the series. This was, of course, Disney flavored bubblegum pop and was written by Disney staffers.
After the show ended, she signed up to do the Disney+ series High School Musical and immediately began planning her launch into a pop star career. By this point she had become quite the songwriter and wrote a few songs that she sang on the series. One of those, “All I Want” became a streaming hit despite having almost no radio airplay as it streamed over 100 million on Spotify times before her breakout success. Those totals have since risen to 325 million streams.
At this point, Olivia planned her move away from Disney's safe kiddie pop image and signed with UMG/Geffen. Her first single for the label, “Driver's License” was an immediate smash and streamed over 1.1 billion times on Spotify.
The follow-up “Deja Vu” is over 590 million streams and the next single “Good4U” has hit 960 million streams. Her first album, SOUR, shot to number 1 and she pretty much dominated the charts in 2020 in the same manner Billie Eilish did a year earlier. She currently has 8.8 million followers on Spotify, 7.6 million on YouTube, 18.2 million on Instagram, and 11 million on TikTok.
The girl obviously has the ideal talent and personality of a pop star: she is very relatable to teens but is not scary to their parents. For parents recovering from the shock of their little darlings listen to Billie Eilish's odes to suicide and videos worthy of a horror film, Olivia is safe and relatively wholesome. Even if she does throw down the occasional f-bomb in a song, at least she's not getting to know tarantulas up close and personal.
In terms of her future popularity, she is still on the rise and has lots of room to grow. Whether she will by next year reach the absurd heights Billie did is am intriguing question. On the one hand, her mainstream appeal leaves her a wider potential audience but on the other hand she does not present the edgy factor Billie gives to would be rebellious teenagers. Still, the obvious question for Olivia is the same one I asked about Billie a year ago: How do you follow this? She certainly will not be going anywhere for the foreseeable future but can she keep the same level of momentum going with her next release?
From a talent standpoint, she is obviously among the top tier of young female pop singer/songwriters. Her music is not nearly as edgy as Billie's but, in all fairness, it is difficult to separate Billie and her brother while Olivia is flying solo. Both girls' teams have obviously been very successful in terms of guiding their careers.
I think it is a safe bet to say Olivia will continue to have success but when she will peak and how long she will maintain at or near peak level popularity is pure guesswork. As with Billie, we will have to wait for the reaction to another album or two to see whether she can maintain the current levels of success.
From an artistry standpoint, Olivia is churning out near perfect pop with hooks galore in a variety of styles. She has become the queen of teen girl broken heart confessionals and history has show that can take you a long way - ask Taylor Swift. Obviously those early years being inspired by Swift's own early confessionals have paid off big time. She is both a talented singer and songwriter, an excellent business woman, and, as we know, being physically attractive in today's marketplace is always a plus. There will inevitably be a backlash at some point (it happened with Taylor, Arianna, and Billie as well) and how she handles it will say much for her future.
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Post by 1 Guest on Oct 13, 2021 10:19:43 GMT -5
If anyone could be called the breakout star of the pandemic, it is Olivia Rodrigo. Olivia began taking vocal, piano, and acting lessons as a young child and became interested in songwriting from listening to Taylor Swift (during Taylor's country period).
After spots in an Old Navy commercial and an American Girl film, she got her big break by landing the role of Paige Olvera in the Disney Channel series Bizardvark (2016-2019). During that run, she made an EP with her costar Madison Hu featuring music from the series. This was, of course, Disney flavored bubblegum pop and was written by Disney staffers.
After the show ended, she signed up to do the Disney+ series High School Musical and immediately began planning her launch into a pop star career. By this point she had become quite the songwriter and wrote a few songs that she sang on the series. One of those, “All I Want” became a streaming hit despite having almost no radio airplay as it streamed over 100 million on Spotify times before her breakout success. Those totals have since risen to 325 million streams.
At this point, Olivia planned her move away from Disney's safe kiddie pop image and signed with UMG/Geffen. Her first single for the label, “Driver's License” was an immediate smash and streamed over 1.1 billion times on Spotify.
The follow-up “Deja Vu” is over 590 million streams and the next single “Good4U” has hit 960 million streams. Her first album, SOUR, shot to number 1 and she pretty much dominated the charts in 2020 in the same manner Billie Eilish did a year earlier. She currently has 8.8 million followers on Spotify, 7.6 million on YouTube, 18.2 million on Instagram, and 11 million on TikTok.
The girl obviously has the ideal talent and personality of a pop star: she is very relatable to teens but is not scary to their parents. For parents recovering from the shock of their little darlings listen to Billie Eilish's odes to suicide and videos worthy of a horror film, Olivia is safe and relatively wholesome. Even if she does throw down the occasional f-bomb in a song, at least she's not getting to know tarantulas up close and personal.
In terms of her future popularity, she is still on the rise and has lots of room to grow. Whether she will by next year reach the absurd heights Billie did is am intriguing question. On the one hand, her mainstream appeal leaves her a wider potential audience but on the other hand she does not present the edgy factor Billie gives to would be rebellious teenagers. Still, the obvious question for Olivia is the same one I asked about Billie a year ago: How do you follow this? She certainly will not be going anywhere for the foreseeable future but can she keep the same level of momentum going with her next release?
From a talent standpoint, she is obviously among the top tier of young female pop singer/songwriters. Her music is not nearly as edgy as Billie's but, in all fairness, it is difficult to separate Billie and her brother while Olivia is flying solo. Both girls' teams have obviously been very successful in terms of guiding their careers.
I think it is a safe bet to say Olivia will continue to have success but when she will peak and how long she will maintain at or near peak level popularity is pure guesswork. As with Billie, we will have to wait for the reaction to another album or two to see whether she can maintain the current levels of success.
From an artistry standpoint, Olivia is churning out near perfect pop with hooks galore in a variety of styles. She has become the queen of teen girl broken heart confessionals and history has show that can take you a long way - ask Taylor Swift. Obviously those early years being inspired by Swift's own early confessionals have paid off big time. She is both a talented singer and songwriter, an excellent business woman, and, as we know, being physically attractive in today's marketplace is always a plus. There will inevitably be a backlash at some point (it happened with Taylor, Arianna, and Billie as well) and how she handles it will say much for her future.
She's definitely the whole package. Singer, songwriter, actor, ambitious, popular, gorgeous, she has it all. |
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Post by richard on Oct 13, 2021 12:20:15 GMT -5
Wasn't long ago Olivia had her very first Live performance, If I didn't know better I would have thought she has been doing this for a long time. Took her about 2 seconds to gain control of the audience. These were also Billie Eilish, and Tate McRae fans who were at Iheart Radio Festival. The people that go to these festivals want to be entertained, they want to take videos, sing along and feel like they are apart of the show.
Brutal is such a great opening song because it just explodes at the beginning.
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Post by richard on Feb 21, 2022 1:51:41 GMT -5
Yesterday February 20 was Olivia's 19th birthday. Maddie Ziegler, Tate McRae, Maisy Stella and some others had a party for her.
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Post by Guest 4 on Oct 15, 2023 0:33:09 GMT -5
I was kind of blown away by the post-production in Olivia Rodrigo's "Get Him Back" music video (posted by Richard in the main thread here). This is a reaction to it from a video editor's perspective. I thought it was technically interesting, so I went looking for someone who could break it down a little. There's also a very short behind the scenes on YT that shows some of the gear, but I thought this one was more interesting. |
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Post by richard on Oct 19, 2023 12:07:42 GMT -5
The follow-up “Deja Vu” is over 590 million streams and the next single “Good4U” has hit 960 million streams. Her first album, SOUR, shot to number 1 and she pretty much dominated the charts in 2020 in the same manner Billie Eilish did a year earlier. She currently has 8.8 million followers on Spotify, 7.6 million on YouTube, 18.2 million on Instagram, and 11 million on TikTok. Olivia Rodrigo now has 29.1 million spotify followers 12.6 million Youtube subscribers 37.4 million instagram followers 18 million tiktok followers. Some of her big hits on Spotify Driver Licience 1.9 Billion streams Deja Vu 1.3 Billion streams Traitor 1.3 Billion Streams This year she smartened up because of the backlash of her last tour for not having large enough venues. For 2024 Guts Tour she has 75 arena type concerts some well over 20k capacity. She has 4 dates at Madison Square Gardens. But that is not enough she is getting fan feedback about not being able to get tickets again. Seems her tour sold out pretty quickly. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/where-to-find-buy-olivia-rodrigo-tour-tickets-online-1235589658/ So maybe she will add more dates she even mentioned about doing a Asia tour. But I think that answers the question if Sour would be her only one time big hit. |
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Post by eulenspiegel on Jun 13, 2024 6:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by eulenspiegel on Jun 13, 2024 6:29:49 GMT -5
Competition for Taylor Swift US pop star sets new screaming record in Cologne's Lanxess Arena www.express.de/koeln/olivia-rodrigo-sorgt-fuer-neuen-kreisch-rekord-in-lanxess-arena-809981Olivia Rodrigo fills the Lanxess Arena to the rooftops www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/koeln-olivia-rodrigo-fuellt-die-lanxess-arena-bis-unters-dach-810008You could be wonderfully spiteful now. And write that now that she's 21, she no longer has to make funny "Bizzaardwark" videos for children's programs. Or saving her grandpa's bakery in the movie. Or getting involved in the bickering over a musical at Disney's high school. But you can drink alcohol, smoke and buy a Colt. You could also cry bitterly. If you think of the two pale girls with the braided Dutch pigtails who were still circling the Lanxess Arena like sad satellites at 8:15 p.m.: “Looking for Karen!” You could do so many things. But why not just write what was going on? Olivia, you did well! Olivia Rodrigo is not yet as highly rated as Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift, but the young American actress and singer is close to it. As a seven-year-old, she picked up the piano keys and the microphone, later took part in school theater productions and, as a teenager (see above), bravely worked her way through various “with the help of my best friend it will work out” roles . In 2021, her debut single “Drivers Licenses” went through the roof. Now her second No. 1 album is out and she's filling the Lanxess Arena to the rooftops. Looking for cards? Forget it. In her 93-minute show, Rodrigo doesn't show any weaknesses. Only the wanted ones: With ultra-tight, ultra-short glittering and shimmering outfits that present an ultra-flat stomach and ultra-long legs. Sexy. But really sexy. It doesn't seem wicked at all, it's more like she appeared on the beach, a little overdressed. Fishnet stockings yes. But plus boots. That makes the whole thing more down-to-earth. And it makes dancing much better too. Olivia Rodrigo fans sing along to every line Thousands of young women are doing the same. In the Rodrigo look with skirts in all colors of the rainbow made of coin-sized sequins, similar stockings and footwear. From the intro “Bad ideas right?”, no one is sitting in the stands anymore. Everyone stands, sings along to every line, and makes the appropriate dramatic gestures and movements. Just like at home in front of the mirror. If Rodrigo's waist-length hair were ebony black and not brown, she would make a top-notch Snow White with her cherry red lips and translucent skin. She is beautiful, extremely approachable and a team player. She repeatedly interacts with women from her band and dances in a row with her eight dancers. Their mix of pop ballads and disco hits is perfectly measured. She sings about heartbreak, jealousy and teenage dreams, but in “Pretty Isn’t Pretty” she also sings about the fact that beauty ideals are shit. Or makes fun of the image of the “All American Bitch” who strives for the kind of perfection that suits men who prefer women to be passive, submissive, service-minded and grateful, but still (or precisely because of that) sexually tempting. The sick image of the saint as a whore can only be addressed, if at all, with texts like these. Lots of retro involved With a photo album look, the red, singing mouth from the Rocky Horror Picture Show or the table filmed from above on which Rodrigo lounges while the dancers around him take on synchronized figures like in water ballet, there is also a lot of retro in play. Two catwalks ensure closeness, the highlight of the evening is the flight on the shimmering crescent moon over the interior, during “Logical” and “Enough for You”, surrounded by shining stars. This looks beautiful. “Good moon, you walk so quietly…” you think, completely lost and pensive. Rodrigo's request to “Squeeze!”, which everyone immediately obeys at an infernal volume, seems like a cold shower. It is the only one on this otherwise completely successful evening. Olivia, you did well! |
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Post by eulenspiegel on Jun 13, 2024 6:39:47 GMT -5
How Olivia Rodrigo awakens the female anger of her fans www.ksta.de/kultur-medien/konzert-in-koeln-wie-olivia-rodrigo-die-weibliche-wut-ihrer-fans-aufweckt-810122Olivia Rodrigo says she wrote the next song the day before her 19th birthday. Back then she would have been afraid of growing up, afraid of the future. “Now I'm 21, where I come from, this is the 'drinking age', so it's a big deal, and I would give me the advice: Don't worry so much, so many wonderful things are just around the corner.” Then sing she sings the ballad of “Teenage Dream,” repeating the hardships of her younger self like a mantra with the help of her two background singers: “Everyone says it gets better, it gets better, but what if I don’t?” Most people here, in the Cologne Arena, can understand that. The audience is predominantly female and is not only the “drinking age” but also 19 years old. How good it feels to have someone who has been through all of this recently and knows how to articulate it. Women also quickly notice that they were born into the wrong system. “I'm so sick of 17, where's my fucking teenage dream?” Rodrigo, still fearless, asked boldly in the first song of their debut album “Sour”. That was 2021, in the distant past. Olivia Rodrigo sings about the drama of the gifted child But the rebellious Olivia had already had a career as a Disney princess behind her, with leading roles in the sitcom “Bizaardvark” – she co-composed the title song – and in the franchise series “High School Musical: The Musical”, which was titled with anticipatory irony: The Series”. Which is why the song “Teenage Dream” is primarily about the fear of not being able to meet one’s own high standards and the brilliance assumed by the adult environment: it is the drama of the gifted child. While she kneels at the head of the left walkway and, surrounded by her fans, wonders when someone will reveal her bluff, old amateur films of elementary school-age Olivia are playing on the stage-wide LED wall, always with a microphone in her hand, always performing. She's nothing like us. The fact that she still appears as an avatar of our growing pains is her biggest bluff. You can also call it talent. The Californian signed to her label Geffen Records primarily because its CEO praised her songwriting rather than her star potential. And that reaches truly astounding heights. The opening piece of the evening, “Bad Idea Right?”, is a single pop rock sugar rush, with a pinch of salt: The bad idea is a nighttime visit to his ex and Rodrigo sings it in a short, glittery pleated skirt and with his eyes wide open as a breathless monologue hormonally deluded: “Fuck it, it’s fine.” Her band - like the first Cologne concert two years ago, which was all female - plucks the strings as raw and noisily as is possible at a girly pop concert, to quote Rodrigo's T-shirt at the end of it is. During “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl,” the arena-strong choir of lyrically confident fans threatens to drown out the performer, but what else can you do other than sing along when the singer speaks from your soul? Vampire” sings Olivia Rodrigo in front of the werewolf moon Rodrigo has already put “Vampire” in third place, she belts it out into a stand microphone, a werewolf moon shines behind her. This is great musical theater. If you don't know the song, I implore you to listen to it now. If that's not possible right now: Just imagine if Meat Loaf had written a feminist power ballad with Freddie Mercury, a powerful defense spell against male bloodsuckers. The next cutting accusation follows with “Traitor”, Olivia Rodrigo’s ex-relationships are burning in the same hell as Taylor Swift’s, then the artist briefly disappears and reappears at the keys of a grand piano surrounded by ground fog. “Drivers License”, the piano ballad of a former suburban love, was her commercial breakthrough, and now she has expanded the bridge into a chorus of Queen-like dimensions. It's a little revenge that she front-loaded her set with so many hits, she has to fill the middle with show effects, the dancers now have more to do, Rodrigo's outfits are getting tighter, she rolls around on a plexiglass plate on the stage floor and is hit by filmed below, like the tennis players in “Challengers.” Finally, stars fall from the hall sky and the singer is strapped onto an illuminated crescent moon, on which she immediately rises. Olivia's journey to the moon lasts two songs, it is a large arena and every concert-goer wants to be greeted. Concerts for young audiences often have something cathartic about them, and this is doubly true for the generation that Olivia Rodrigo discovered as their voice during the pandemic. You experience yourself as a mass, you share the pain. On "All-American Bitch," she asks her fans to think of something that's really pissed them off lately and then scream as loud as they can. The music stops briefly, then a hurricane breaks out that could blow your shirt off your body: primal scream therapy as a popular sport, or, better, “female rage” weaponized. However, at the performer's request, you can hug your best friend as well as your dad or mom, depending on who came along. The camera captures it in a large picture. Attending a concert should be relatively easy for the elders, because Rodrigo is an artistic traditionalist. When she performs two acoustic pieces while sitting cross-legged with her guitarist Daisy, or slows down the heavy “Brutal” riff to stoner rock, older generations understand that too. In addition, Rodrigo single-handedly persuaded the out-of-fashion “Piano Man” Billy Joel to make a comeback through offensive enthusiasm. But the time for piano ballads is now up. For the encore, there are two rousing and extremely sing-along pop-punk anthems, “Good 4 U” and “Get Him Back,” with the singer waving a red plastic megaphone. Afterwards, Olivia Rodrigo disappears into the fall floor and if you wanted to grab her in a gesture, then in her last hop, with which she greets her happily dissolved audience once again on the way down. |
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Post by richard on Jun 13, 2024 8:21:48 GMT -5
And that is why people like Olivia, Billie, Taylor love to have their concerts shown. Those seem to have been posted by Lanxess Arena itself. 18,500 shouting and blowing the roof off. They know you are not going to get the same experience unless you are there. The comments seem to indicate the ones that were there want to go back and the ones that wasn't want's to go. Maybe they didn't get Msims message about her voice getting weak. Because I haven't heard of anyone complaining about going to her concert.
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Post by eulenspiegel on Jul 24, 2024 4:37:57 GMT -5
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Post by eulenspiegel on Jul 24, 2024 4:41:09 GMT -5
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Post by Rightwing Conspiracy Theorist on Jul 24, 2024 21:50:58 GMT -5
It's no surprise that a prominent "celebrity" supports the Democratic candidate. The entertainment industry has a habit of blackballing conservative actors and musicians. Celebrities are forced to support the Democratic party in order to gain future employment opportunities. If you doubt that, see the backlash that JME received for singing at Trump's inauguration |
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Post by richard on Oct 23, 2024 1:28:21 GMT -5
Isn't it a good thing Olivia Rodrigo never had a nut case as a manager for her singing career.
You pretty much have to search the internet to find bits and pieces of Jackie singing at her tiny concerts.
Now we will probably hear from Sims that Netflix isn't paying Olivia for her concert.
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Post by amg1977 on Oct 23, 2024 12:34:52 GMT -5
Isn't it a good thing Olivia Rodrigo never had a nut case as a manager for her singing career. You pretty much have to search the internet to find bits and pieces of Jackie singing at her tiny concerts. Now we will probably hear from Sims that Netflix isn't paying Olivia for her concert. I don't think Mike is a nut case. Misguided, yes. In over his head, absolutely. However, I think he honestly wanted to help Jackie. He just wasn't that good at it. |
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