In a few weeks, the freshly minted pop famous person Olivia Rodrigo will launch her hotly anticipated sophomore album Guts. Each of her early singles, “Vampire” and “Dangerous Thought Proper?,” are absolute bangers, and each of them are somewhat noisier and extra intense than something on her debut LP Bitter. In a New York Instances profile that’s up on-line at present, Rodrigo talks in regards to the pressures surrounding her new album, and he or she additionally mentions a few surprising figures who served as advisors.

Speaking to the Instances‘ Caryn Ganz, Olivia Rodrigo says that she requested Jack White, a hero of hers, for recommendation. (She additionally says that she cried when she met him.) Rodrigo says, “He wrote me this letter the primary time I met him that mentioned, ‘Your solely job is to put in writing music that you’d wish to hear on the radio.’” Rodrigo then pauses and says, “I imply, writing songs that you simply want to hear on the radio is the truth is very laborious.” It’s true! Shout out to Jack White for nonetheless writing letters.

Rodrigo additionally mentions St. Vincent mastermind Annie Clark as a mentor, and he or she notes that she and Clark just lately went to a Tori Amos present collectively. Within the Instances story, Clark says, “I’ve by no means met anybody so younger and so effortlessly self-possessed… [Rodrigo] is aware of who she is and what she needs — and doesn’t appear to be in any means afraid of voicing that. And only a actually pretty lady too. I’ve by no means heard her say a foul phrase about anybody.”

One other artist who Olivia Rodrigo admires is Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and the sensation is mutual. Within the Instances article, Hanna talks about how a lot she loves Rodrigo: “She’s a revelation… It’s a captivating factor to look at these younger girls, and particularly Olivia, as a result of she appears to be so superior as a songwriter, expressing themselves in these actually difficult methods.” As for Rodrigo’s references to riot grrrl, Hanna says, “That’s so nice, to see this underground musical type being graphically referenced within the mainstream by an individual who’s really a music lover.”

Rodrigo tells Ganz that she “at all times beloved rock music, and at all times needed to discover a means that I may make it really feel like me, and make it really feel female and nonetheless telling a narrative and having one thing to say that’s susceptible and intimate.” She additionally reels off a listing of favorites, together with Snail Mail, Sleater-Kinney, Joni Mitchell, Beyoncé, No Doubt’s Return Of Saturn, and Candy: “Oh my God, I listened to ‘Ballroom Blitz’ 10 occasions at present. I do not know why.”

Guts is out 9/8 on Geffen. You possibly can learn the total Instances profile right here.