The day has lastly arrived. Olivia Rodrigo’s long-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s Bitter is right here. First introduced two months in the past, Guts was recorded with Bitter producer Dan Nigro and options the already launched singles “Vampire” and “Unhealthy Concept Proper?” Additionally, as Rodrigo talked about in a current New York Instances profile, she had Jack White and St. Vincent’s Annie Clark in her nook as mentors.

As is to be anticipated, Rodrigo is doing tons of excellent promo round GUTS. Jeni’s ice cream is doing an “Olivia Rodrigo Cone Takeover” this weekend the place “we’re turning all of our Buttercrisp Waffle Cones a cool shade of purple to have a good time Olivia’s new album.” (There’s a Jeni’s up the road from the place I dwell, so that you finest imagine I shall be partaking.)

In a chat with Apple Music, Rodrigo talked about among the themes she explored on Guts:

I really feel like while you’re making the album, you’ll be able to’t actually see the forest by the bushes a bit of bit about what’s about or what you’re making an attempt to get throughout. Typically you simply get up and go into the studio and see what comes out of you. In hindsight, I feel that quite a lot of this album is in regards to the confusion that comes with changing into a younger grownup and determining your house on this world and determining who you wish to be and who you wish to hang around with and all of that stuff. I feel that that’s in all probability an expertise that everybody has had of their life earlier than, is simply that rising from that disillusionment.

She additionally talked about how she recorded about 25 songs whereas making the album, and that some tracks that didn’t make the ultimate reduce might be launched at a later date. “I feel a few of them will certainly see the sunshine of day,” Rodrigo mentioned. “I don’t know. In crafting an album monitor listing, there’s simply intricacies. Like, oh, too many of those songs and I wish to save this for later, and stuff like that. So I guess a few of them will see the sunshine of day.”

On Friday, Rodrigo shall be on the At the moment present, after which in fact she’s set to carry out on the VMAs on Tuesday.

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Guts is out now on Geffen.