Olivia Rodrigo Shares Her Advice On How She Fought ‘The Dread’ Of Pleasing Everyone While Writing Her Music
variety.comOlivia Rodrigo was honored with Variety‘s Storyteller of the Year Award at this year’s Hitmakers brunch by her friend and Grammy winner, St.
Vincent, who described Rodrigo as a “precious baby angel muffin, but if a precious baby angel muffin were also tough as nails and cool as hell.” Upon taking the stage, Rodrigo spoke about her approach to songwriting and the challenges she faced making her sophomore album “Guts.” She also brought up her song, “Can’t Catch Me Now,” which she wrote for the box office blockbuster “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” “Telling stories through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember.
I write to figure out how I feel, to move through my emotions, and to commemorate and honor seasons of my life,” Rodrigo said. “I also got the chance to write a song for the new ‘Hunger Games’ movie recently and it taught me how much I also loved writing songs from another person’s point of view and how fun and collaborative it can be.” “Though writing songs is definitely one of my favorite things to do in this world, I wouldn’t say it’s always been effortless for me by any means,” Rodrigo went on to confess. “Especially making my most recent album, I had so many voices in my head and I felt so much pressure to please everyone with the music I was making.
Rodrigo said she “jokingly” nicknamed these doubts “‘the dread,’ like a horror movie.” “I found that just simply showing up to create something everyday, even if I didn’t feel extremely inspired, was what pulled me out of that dread and made me start to get really excited about the music I was making,” she continued.
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