Drivers License

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The biggest hit song of 2021, Drivers License, is the coming-of-age heart cry that’s been recorded like so many others long before the microphone was invented. Guy meets girl, girl falls in love, guy falls in love….with someone else; leaving said girl feeling of no worth when all said and done.    And while Drivers License IS a great “I got dumped” breakup song, Olivia Rodrigo leaves a trail of breadcrumbs pointing back to something more important than a lover’s quarrel; insecurity. Hop in as we drive down Emotional Highway 101 and learn the most important key you’ll ever learn when it comes to matters of the heart. But I’m not gonna tell you here. You’ll just have to listen.

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0:00.0	If you've turned on mainstream radio for even 30 seconds the last few months, you've probably heard a most fervent anthem of teenage heartache.
0:12.0	Written by Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro, the song, Drivers' License, has broken a string of records as the 17-year-old Rodrigo debuted at the top of the
0:24.8	billboard charts, making her the youngest artists in history to do so. And while Olivia's voice
0:31.7	and performance is rather remarkable and is not to be dismissed, it's the ever-familiar coming-of-age story of falling for someone
0:40.6	just as they've fallen for someone else that plucks a familiar chord in each of us at one time
0:47.8	or another. And just like being the last one picked for a pickup game or being the table for one please rummaging through
0:56.4	the emotional baggage of life is well part of life and unfortunately the moments in feeling
1:03.9	less than enough are of no exception if i were having coffee with olivia rodrig right now, I would simply listen and just
1:14.2	not occasionally. Sometimes you're not supposed to be the answer. Sometimes all they want is just for you to listen.
1:22.6	And as the lights in the coffee shop began to turn out and the open sign on the front door is flipped to close,
1:31.2	I would slip her a note on our way out as we parted ways.
1:36.2	Find yourself, it would say, before finding someone else.
1:42.6	Find yourself before finding someone else. Find yourself before finding someone else.
1:48.7	Having a license to drive was the first badge of freedom we all dreamt about.
1:54.7	It meant we could go anywhere.
1:56.7	We could see anyone, do anything.
2:00.1	At least it felt that way. But as with every milestone in life,
2:04.6	reaching the other side, we often find ourselves saying, now what? I thought I would feel
2:12.0	different, happier, more put together, more fulfilled. But just like driving a car, finding that someone or something
2:22.7	such as a career or a house or that dream life you've seen on billboards, all of this will
2:30.3	never fulfill what's missing inside. Taking the time to reflect, to re-center, and to
2:36.7	readjust your view of yourself, will illustrate how those people, places, or things
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