Olivia Rodrigo talks “outgrowing” old songs and inspiring Billie Eilish’s ‘Goldwing’

Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that listening to Lorde‘s ‘Royals’ changed “the trajectory” of her life.Speaking to Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo and Julia Michaels’ Songwriter Roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rodrigo spoke of the first time she had heard the Lorde song on the radio and went on to explain how it had impacted her so deeply.“I remember hearing that song on the radio at the time… It was one of those ‘pinch me’ moments where you always remember, a snapshot memory, like, ‘Oh my God, what is this?!’ Changes the trajectory of your life,” Rodrigo called to her fellow musicians.“I remember listening to it as I first started writing songs and just being blown away by her lyrics that are just about being a teenager living in the suburbs,” Rodrigo went on to explain. “I just remember never hearing my life be put into a song like that where it just made being young and doing these seemingly unimportant things feel so sacred.”Most recently, the singer-songwriter discussed the inspiration behind some of the “emo” lyrics in her recent songs ‘Lacy’ and ‘All-American Bitch’.Speaking on the Kelly Clarkson Show, Rodrigo gave insight into how she conceived the lyrics for the outro of ‘Lacy’ – “And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you / Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you.”“Very emo of me, writing that,” Rodrigo told Clarkson, laughing.

Olivia Rodrigo has discussed the inspiration behind some of the “emo” lyrics in her recent songs ‘Lacy’ and ‘All-American Bitch’.Both tracks appear on the singer’s recent second album ‘Guts‘, which was released in September.Speaking on the Kelly Clarkson Show, Rodrigo gave insight into how she conceived the lyrics for the outro of ‘Lacy’ – “And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you / Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you.”“Very emo of me, writing that,” Rodrigo told Clarkson, laughing. “I took a poetry class at USC,” she continued.

The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominees for the 2024 SCL Awards, including songwriters Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Lenny Kravitz, Diane Warren, and Jon Batiste, all who earned spots on the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Original Song.

Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and more have received mentions on the shortlist for the 2024 Academy Awards. Yesterday (December 21), the Academy announced its shortlists in 10 categories, including Best Original Song and Best Original Score.

While the Oscar original song shortlist is typically good about spreading the wealth around, three movies dominated close to half the spaces with Barbie cleared to be nominated for three songs, The Color Purple two and Apple Original Film’s Flora and Son two. Of the 15 spots, Warner Bros owns five of ’em between Barbie and Color Purple.

You can’t escape her. You can only hope to contain her.

Olivia Rodrigo has performed a tender rendition of ‘Guts’ highlight, ‘Vampire’, on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.The pop heavyweight appeared on Colbert on Monday night (December 18), performing the track surrounded by microphone props, and reducing her vocal delivery from her signature belt to a more vulnerable, whispery tone. Backed only by a piano and a string quartet, the latest rendition of the track sees Rodrigo’s vocals taking centrestage.Watch Olivia Rodrigo perform ‘Vampire’ on ‘Colbert’ below:Rodrigo’s performance on Colbert is the latest in a string of appearances she has made on American television to promote her sophomore album, ‘Guts’.

Ryan Gosling is working on something in the recording studio.

Olivia Rodrigo is responding to Billie Eilish‘s song about her!

Olivia Rodrigo has a new boyfriend. The singer was spotted kissing actor Louis Partridge, with the two first linked together in October. The two were photographed in an outing in New York, which showed them fueling their car and taking some adorable photos.

It’s official, Perezcious readers. Olivia Rodrigo has a new man in her life!

Olivia Rodrigo and Louis Partridge are making it very clear that they are an item.

Olivia Rodrigo is the latest artist to find herself in the Tiny Desk Concert studio, bringing songs from her Grammy-nominated Guts to the NPR audience. "I was saying earlier, I've never been starstruck by a room before," she says at one point as she references the many artists who have gone before her.

Olivia Rodrigo‘s boyfriend Louis Partridge has been supporting her all weekend long!

Louis Partridge is showing his support for Olivia Rodrigo!

Z100′s 2023 Jingle Ball brought out so many stars!

Jake Johnson is opening up about working with Olivia Rodrigo!

Olivia Rodrigo when she made an appearance on New Girl.The ‘Vampire’ singer-songwriter appeared in season six of the hit Fox sitcom in 2017, in an episode titled ‘Young Adult’. She played a student at Jessica Day’s (Zooey Deschanel) school called Terrinea, who’s a fan of roommate Nick Miller’s YA book The Pepperwood Chronicles.Johnson recalled the now-pop megastar’s appearance on the show in an interview with Rolling Stone.

In a recent Variety cover feature, Billie Eilish spoke about her complicated feelings about women, saying she often felt that women didn't like her. "I have deep connections with women in my life, the friends in my life, the family in my life," she said in the magazine's "Hitmakers" issue.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas O’Connell have received Grammys, an Oscar and just about every award and honor and tribute and kudo young recording artists can imagine in the six years since her debut EP in 2017, but even they can still be awed by a tribute from a respected influence. That happened at Variety’s Hitmakers celebration in Los Angeles on Saturday, when Elton John’s lyricist of 56 years, Bernie Taupin — who has written the lyrics for everything from “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” to “Bennie and the Jets” and “Candle in the Wind” — paid tribute to their songwriting partnership when rewarding them with the Film Song of the Year honor for “What Was I Made For?,” their song from the summer blockbuster film “Barbie.” Before an audience that included Boygenius, Joan Baez, Olivia Rodrigo, Victoria Monet and many others (SZA hadn’t arrived yet), the following exchange took place: Taupin’s tribute and Eilish’s response (Finneas just said “Thanks guys!”) follows in full.