The interweaving guitar and bass riffs on songs like “Bad Idea Right?” instantly call to mind the Breeders, for example, and her and Nigro’s penchant for building song structures around dynamic shifts can’t help but recall the famous “LOUD-quiet-LOUD” stylings of Kim Deal’s other band, the Pixies. Rodrigo was already at home with such pop-punk gestures on Sour, but the rock songs on Guts also draw on the more sophisticated, artsier sounds of post-punk and indie artists from the 1980s and ’90s-apparently a taste inherited from her parents-through to today. It’s echoed musically by the song’s alternation between hushed rapid-fire recitative verses and expansive cheerleader-chant choruses, which bring to mind Gwen Stefani or Avril Lavigne. Maybe the purest example of her approach is on “Get Him Back!,” where she plays the two meanings of the title phrase off each other to explore the simultaneous impulses to reunite with a lousy boyfriend and to take her revenge: “I wanna key his car/ I wanna make him lunch … I wanna kiss his face/ With an uppercut/ I wanna meet his mom/ Just to tell her her son sucks.” Such self-aware ambivalence was less within her reach on the debut album, let alone with such good jokes. On the song’s outro, she squeezes in a last pair of comic examples of her purported gaucheness-“Thought your mom was your wife, ah-ah/ Called you the wrong name twice, ah-ah”-before throwing up her hands in mock exasperation, “Can’t think of a third line/ La-la-la-la-la-la.” She both laments and lampoons that off-road voyage on the post-punk-styled Guts track “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl,” portraying herself as undersocialized: “I made it weird, I made it worse/ Each time I step outside, it’s social suicide,” she confesses. In fact, she’d probably be commencing her second year at Columbia alongside her close friend Madison Hu, her co-star in the mid-2010s Disney Channel sitcom Bizaardvark, the show (along with High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) that ensured that Rodrigo also would never attend a regular high school. She’d be heading back to campus this week instead of sending out the album’s follow-up, Guts. One fan commented, “OMG TAYLOR SHADING TOM ON LONG STORY SHORT BYE”.I’m not sure how it became a trope to call second albums “sophomore.” But if Olivia Rodrigo’s debut, Sour, hadn’t become one of the biggest releases of 2021, winning her a Grammy for best new artist and putting the kibosh on her post–high school plans, the 20-year-old might be a literal sophomore now. Another user posted a picture in response which read, “Long story short is about Joe and Tom I know it Taylor told me so”. Another fan wrote, “Long story short is about Tom and the Kanye and Kim 2016 feud right? We’re all in agreement about that right?” A user commented, “IS LONG STORY SHORT ABOUT CALVIN TOM AND JOE AND 2016? ‘#evermore’”. One fan tweeted, “we know who you’re talking about Taylor” and posted Joe and Tom’s pictures. As soon as the new album was released, her fans were quick enough to listen to them and draw various conclusions. ![]() Taylor Swift’s songs are very personal and often have references to her love relationships. ![]() Taylor refers to Scooter Braun when she adds up, “ Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things, Your nemeses, Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing”. In the latter chorus, The Blank Space singer adds, “ Now I’m all about you, I’m all about you”, referring to her current beau Joe Alwyn. The song also notes the breakup with Calvin Harris and her dating period with Tom Hiddleston.
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