SOUR [VINYL]

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On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 to ratings from publications, the album received a mean score of 83 based on 20 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Lyrics talk about the toxicity of social media and its addictiveness, displaying the obsessions of living a perfect life. With "Good 4 U" rising to the top spot of the UK Singles Chart concurrently, Rodrigo became the youngest soloist in UK history to achieve a Chart Double, at 18 years and 3 months old.

Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times dubbed the album "flawless Gen Z pop" that ranges from crisp 1990s rock to acoustic balladry, and "the most self-aware pop record in recent memory". Critics regarded it as a solid debut album, underscoring Rodrigo's realistic lyrics and appeal to Gen Z. Sour spent an entire calendar year inside of the UK Top 20 on the Official Charts with a total of 46 weeks of those spent inside of the Top 10. Its music video, directed by Petra Collins, features Rodrigo as a revengeful cheerleader, making references to the 2000s' cult classic films Princess Diaries and Jennifer's Body.I love the bubblegum pressing I got but the record wasn’t pressed straight so the tone arm dances along the vinyl.

Sour also broke the all-time UK record for the most weekly streams for a debut album, overtaking Capaldi. Sour is the longest-running debut album in the Billboard 200 chart's top 10 during the 21st century, recording its 52nd week in the top 10 on the chart dated July 2, 2022, and surpassing the 51-week tally of Lady Gaga's debut album, The Fame. Rodrigo revealed that the song makes her "really emotional", and that the song is "super personal about people that [she] really love[s]". The song was characterized as an enjoyable, "angrily insecure alt-rock tirade" and "playful and easy pop-punk" that "free falls into the depths of grungy rock", with elements of indie rock.On April 1, Rodrigo announced across her social media accounts that her debut album is scheduled for release on May 21, 2021. On February 17, 2022, Rodrigo announced a documentary about Sour, titled Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film), releasing to Disney+ on March 25, 2022. Brutal" was the last song written for the album; Rodrigo and Nigro wrote the track two weeks before she had to turn in the record. On May 16, 2021, a hotline phone number "[ [1]]" was made available, which teased an unreleased track from Sour.

There are many different meanings to Sour and why I love the word sour and feel like it's representative of the album," she said, and she isn't wrong. Sour was the UK's most streamed album of 2021 with 83% of its year-end sum of 395,000 units being on-demand streams. She added that its organic musicality breaks the "shiny surfaces we've come to expect from such glossy girls. Praising Rodrigo's musical vision and Nigro's production, Rachel Saywitz, reviewing for The Line of Best Fit, stated that Sour swerves the boundaries of conventional genres to work Rodrigo's wide taste. For anyone wondering if they have the US or EU version, check the "inner-ring" (not sure the exact name) on side B, and if it says "Made in Germany" it's the European version.From Disney to 'Drivers License': Inside Olivia Rodrigo's Musical Journey to Become the Voice of Her Generation". Rodrigo explained, "something I'm really proud of is that this record talks about emotions that are hard to talk about or aren't really socially acceptable especially for girls: anger, jealousy, spite, sadness, they're frowned-upon as bitchy and moaning and complaining or whatever. On April 13, Rodrigo teased the album's title, and subsequently, posted the album's title, track listing, and cover artwork on the same day. This is similar to an international exclusive pressing, Sour, housed in the Target gatefold, and sold in the USA through Target.

The ninth track, "Jealousy, Jealousy", has been described as " jazzy", [18] "serpentine" and an " alt-rock squall à la the Kills" with a "plucky bassline and a prowling piano build". The sound is clearer and richer sounding, and in terms of surface noise it’s very quiet minus a pop every now and then, which I’m fairly sure will go away after more plays.Brutal" received a music video on August 23, 2021, [70] before it impacted Italian contemporary hit radio formats through Universal Music Italy on September 3, 2021, as the fifth single from the album. Rodrigo also revealed that "Brutal" was the last track written for the album, describing it as a "last-minute" addition. Sour is a very sort of sad, angry, emotional record, and I wanted to end it with a song that was [reassuring]. Upon release, Sour garnered 385 million streams in its first week on global Spotify—the biggest opening week for an album by a female artist on the platform, beating the former record set by Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next (2019).