Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I have with me

Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield and we're going to talk about Olivia Rodrigo.

This is actually the second time already

that we've had a chance to talk about Olivia.

We were pretty early talking about her on an episode in February which also delved into the

greatest debut songs of all time and that I think some people were like

really they're already putting her with the best debut songs of all time and aren't they a little too

excited about this artist with one song and those people were wrong we were right

yay because you know her album sour is just a, you know, provides a plethora of delights.

She is basically the biggest new artist of the year.

There is unfortunately a country guy named Morgan Wallin who is perhaps

best known for uttering a racist slur and he technically topped the sales

equivalence charts over Olivia. I would recommend checking out our

colleague Amy X Wangs piece about that and how no one really wants to

reckon with that, but she's right no one wants to reckon with that I don't want to reckon with that we're going to talk about Olivia

Rodrigo because we like her better that is our right so it just seemed like a good time

part of it of course is that Olivia was in the White House this

week and what a charming visit that was very much in the vein of Elvis Presley

getting a vaccination back in the day.

She came out there and told everyone to get a vaccination,

told young people to get a vaccination, and was very poised there on the podium. And an incredibly iconic outfit too. very suit like clueless El Woods just kind of you know in the White House there it

there's a lot of tweets about how it was very much like a new Rom com like a new

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