Olivia Rodrigo recently released the highly anticipated release of ‘Guts’, the sophomore album from multi-Platinum-selling three-time GRAMMY®-winner.
One of the most highly awaited albums of the year, ‘Guts’ arrives as the follow-up to Rodrigo’s4x Platinum 2021 full-length debut ‘Sour’ and features her No. 1 hit vampire and the new focus track get him back! Released via Geffen Records, GUTS is available to stream/download.
To celebrate the arrival of ‘Guts’, Rodrigo is sharinga live performance video for the album-opening all-american bitch.
Produced by her frequent collaborator Daniel Nigro and partly created at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City, ‘Guts’ is a major leap forward in both the unbridledhonesty of Rodrigo’s songwriting and the bold originality of her sound. The album has already won acclaim from leading outlets like the New York Times, who stated that “Olivia Rodrigo, pop’s brightest new hope, just may be a rock star” in a recent feature on the 20-year-old artist.
With the premiere of vampire in June, Rodrigo offered a powerful introduction to her newly expanded artistry and immediately earned countless accolades. To that end, The Atlantic noted that the piano-driven epic “pushes her confessional-pop appeal to a sizzling extreme,” while the Los Angeles Times deemed it a “feat of introspection scaled up to rock-operatic dimensions. It’s tragic; it’s exultant; it’s very, very promising.” Her biggest debut of all time on multiple platforms, vampire debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, set the Spotify record for the biggest debut for a solo song in 2023, and ultimately shot to No. 1 at Top 40 Radio. Most recently, vampire reached the No. 1 spot on the UK Official Singles Chart, a turn of events that made Rodrigo the female artist with the most No. 1 singles in the UK this decade.
Like vampire, ‘Guts’ second single bad idea right? was named a Best New Track by Pitchfork, who hailed the latter as “one of the best pop performances of the year.” Released last month alongside its B-movie-inspired video bad idea right? also drew raves from the likes of Rolling Stone (who called it a “sugary headbanger”) and the New York Times (who praised the track as a“bright, kaleidoscopic head-rush of a pop song…” in its weekly column “The Playlist”).
Directed by famed artist/director/photographerPetra Collins, the video for vampire received six nominations for this year’s VMAs, including Video of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Song of the Summer. Collins previously earned a GRAMMY® nomination for her work on the video for Rodrigo’s 4x Platinum, Hot 100-topping good 4 u andalso directed the videos for her 2x Platinum brutal and for bad idea right?.
Thanks to the monumental success of vampire and her 5x Platinum debut single drivers license — Rodrigo is now the first artist ever to debut the lead singles from two career-opening albums atop the Hot 100. She’s also the youngest artist in Hot 100 history to debut three hits at No. 1, while SOUR is the fastest album in history to have all its songs certified RIAA Platinum.
Exclusively available at Rodrigo’s online store, the vinyl version of ‘Guts’ is available in four colors: red, white, blue, and purple. In addition, an exclusive colored vinyl and CD (both with alternative cover and poster) are available.