Olivia Rodrigo was just 17 years old when she recorded Sour and 18 when it was released in the spring of 2021 and if you're baffled by what happened next you're either not 17 or 18 yourself or you've entirely forgotten what it was like to be 17 or 18 years old.

A mixture of spunky/punky power-pop ditties and overwrought heart-on-sleeve ballads, Rodrigo and Sour caught the prevailing zeitgeist so effortlessly because they couldn't be more Gen Z themselves. All the heartache and jealousy and anger at a world that doesn't just understand your Big Emotions, the misplaced degree of importance place on a "Drivers License," the abject hate-on for a perceived "Traitor" -- this is what it sounds and feels like to be 17. And this is why Sour became the five-singles-deep No. 1 Billboard album and cultural phenomenon it became. 

TRACKLISTING:

1. brutal
2. traitor
3. driver's license
4. 1 step forward, 3 steps back
5. deja vu
6. good 4 u
7. enough for you
8. happier
9. jealousy, jealousy
10. favourite crime
11. hope ur ok