Olivia Rodrigo, vampire | Track Review 🎵

Grammy-winning pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo makes a colorful and thrilling comeback with “vampire,” the lead single from her sophomore LP, GUTS.

“As you sunk your teeth into me, oh / Bloodsucker, fame fucker / Bleedin’ me dry like a goddamn vampire.” WOO! She’s back! Who? Why, 🏆 Grammy-winning pop superstar 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo.  Rodrigo had a gargantuan year in 2021 with the release of her debut album, 💿 Sour.  She returns in 2023 with her highly anticipated sophomore LP, 💿 GUTS. Leading the charge is the ambitious single, 🎵 “Vampire” where Olivia doesn’t mince her words.  A couple of f-bombs always adds pizzaz, don’t they? Rodrigo penned “Vampire” alongside 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Dan Nigro, who also produces.  The results are positive, all told.

Early on, Olivia Rodrigo makes it crystal clear that she is not happy with her ex. “Six months of torture you sold as some forbidden paradise,” she asserts in the first verse, adding, “I loved you truly / You gotta laugh at the stupidity.” Day-um! “Vampire” fittingly commences as a piano ballad, adding instrumentation in the first chorus, where the intensity increases. Rodrigo shows off mad pipes during the chorus, capped off by the epic “bloodsucker, fame fucker…” lyric. By the second verse, also dramatic, drums enter the mix, adding even more intensity, establishing this toxic experience.

At one point, she states, “Oh, what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, fucked up little thrill / Can’t figure out just how you do it and God knows I never will.”As excerpted earlier, the centerpiece is the chorus, in all its vampirical thrills: “You only come out at night / I used to think I was smart / But you made me look so naïve.” As bad as the experience was for Rodrigo, she lets it all out on this thrilling comeback single.

🎙 Olivia Rodrigo • 💿 GUTS • 🏷 Olivia Rodrigo / Geffen • 🗓 9.10.23

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