![]() Max Martin and Joel Little are two Grammy-winning producers she’d like to work with someday, simply to watch them do their thing and learn from their expertise. In 2020, she started teaming up with other artists to take her “bedroom piano songs” up a notch. Her music career began in her bedroom, where she’d pen songs by herself-a process “you can only learn so much from,” she said. “Maybe it wouldn’t even be one that I sing, but I love catchy, anthemic pop songs, and I want to learn how to write one.”Ĭollaborations bring a fresh perspective to Rodrigo’s songwriting. “I love pop pop music, like down the middle, absolute bubblegum pop music… I would love to write a big pop song,” Rodrigo said about what she’d like to explore in the future. I knew way more about it than I should have. In the 2019 book Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he said, 'Its as if I had done it before. It happened when Crosby was riding a friends sailboat. This was “out of comfort zone,” she admitted, but it was a chance to try new sounds and see where her powerful voice could take her. There was a specific case of 'Deja Vu' that inspired this song. Its bright synths and melodies were challenging to perfect, because they’re so different from the sad breakup ballads she’s known for. Everybody does it, but after a long time you realize little experiences can be translated into art… I’m learning how to observe the world through a songwriter’s lens.” Getting your driver’s license, it’s very menial. ![]() “That’s sometimes a blessing and a curse, but in my songwriting, I feel like it definitely helps… paying attention to little things and being like, oh, maybe that could be a song. Listen to the hidden lyric in “Deja Vu” above, around the 2:10-minute mark.“Every little feeling for me is always very heightened,” Rodrigo said about finding magic in the mundane. Verse 1 Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, 'tell me, where are you going' This he told me Said, 'I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm Gonna join in a. But ‘Drivers License’ did give me a lot of confidence in that regard.” I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed heartbreak ballad girl. I think people probably would resonate with that, and they resonated with ‘Drivers License,’ but we really wanted to show that I’m a versatile songwriter and I’m a versatile artist and I can write heartbreak songs, but I can also make cool alternative pop songs. She continued: “Us and my team didn’t want to do the safe thing of putting out another heartbreak ballad. So that definitely took a lot of pressure off.” “I didn’t ever have to chose the next single knowing ‘Drivers License’ was this huge success. The overall message of the song suggests that Rodrigo is insecure about her looks as she compares them to those of a woman named lacy. We chose it a long time before ‘Drivers License’ ever came out,” she said. “We chose this song to come out after ‘Drivers License’ probably in September. I don’t know if only certain people can hear it, but it’s really buried and very subtle.”Įlsewhere in the interview, Rodrigo talked about how her team had already chosen ‘Deja Vu’ to be her next single before ‘Drivers License’ was even released. He’s listened to it 200 times and never heard it, which I think is super cool. ![]() When the ‘High School Musical: The Musica. My A&R was probably listening to this song, poor guy, he’s probably listened to this song like 200 times because it went through so many mixes. Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu (Live Performance) Vevo LIFTActing isn’t the only thing that Olivia Rodrigo is great at.
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