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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

GRAMMY NOMINEE: Olivia Rodrigo (September 2023)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Olivia Rodrigo joins Willie Geist to talk about her latest album, Guts. The 20-year-old superstar entered this new era with the powerful single ‘Vampire' - which has many speculating the true story behind the song. Here's why she'll never reveal her inspiration for the hit. (Original broadcast date September 12, 2023.)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:10.5

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.0

Boy, oh boy, do I have a big one for you this week?

0:16.0

One of the biggest stars in all of music,

0:19.0

Olivia Rodrigo.

0:20.0

I hope you sit back, relax, enjoy getting to know a little bit better

0:24.1

Olivia rodrigo right now on the Sunday sit-down podcast.

0:29.8

Thank you so much for doing this.

0:31.5

Thank you for having me. I mean I feel so lucky to catch you in this very moment and by this moment I mean like these last few hours. Your album just came out like nine hours ago.

0:42.8

You just stepped off the stage to a huge crowd.

0:46.5

How are you feeling today?

0:48.6

I am feeling surprisingly calm.

0:51.4

I'm feeling really happy. I was telling you before yesterday I was in fits of

0:55.7

anxiety but today I'm like, wow what a nice life that I get to live. I'm just so

0:59.8

stoked to be here so it's a good mindset and is the anxiety because I've heard other

1:03.9

artists say this is I just poured a lot of my stuff out yeah now the public's

1:09.4

going to hear about all of it yeah it's a little of that I mean I'm a very

1:12.4

diaristic songwriter and I

1:14.0

write all my songs just from a place of wanting to get something off of my chest and, you know,

1:18.0

talk about how I feel and then it's not until like a week or so before I put it out

1:22.0

where I'm like huh

1:23.0

why are people going to think about me like talking about this weird stuff that goes

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