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\n\tThe third time\u2019s the third charm for Olivia Rodrigo, who is beginning to look like she might be constutionally incapable of not turning in one of the year\u2019s most diverting albums, in any given try. Not many artists have started off with as smashing a three-peat as Rodrigo and her producer\/co-writer partner Dan Nigro, who\u2019ve pulled it off again with \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.\u201d But just what the \u201cagain\u201d entails here involves some wrinkles, since the departures taken go far beyond just dispensing with one-word titles. After two terrific but roughly similar albums, \u201cSour\u201d and \u201cGuts,\u201d their inevitable task was to stray a bit from signature sounds and firmly establish they intend to not be a one-trick pony. Even if the initial trick was pretty great.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe big initial revelation upon a first listen to \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love\u201d is that Rodrigo and Nigro have done a clever trade. The pop-punk style of the most ferocious parts of the first two albums is gone, as promised\u2026 but the rock isn\u2019t. At least not if you consider \u201cThe Roq of the \u201980s [or \u201990s]\u201d \u2014 to quote the old slogans for L.A.\u2019s KROQ-FM \u2014 to be rock. About half the album involves a revival of those classic new wave sounds, something that was at least hinted at when the lead single, \u201cDrop Dead,\u201d employed a mid-song synth line that threatened, briefly but delightfully, to turn it into a Flock of Seagulls tune. Friends, there is more where that came from, and if you long for that slightly pre-grunge period where giant synth riffs and drum machines ruled rock, there are roughly a half-dozen songs that will put a goofy grin on your face. Listening to the album\u2019s penultimate track, \u201cExpectations,\u201d I thought, \u201cMissing Persons? Found!\u201d It\u2019s slightly goofy, and wholly wonderful.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, it\u2019s not just the cheesier side of new wave that these collaborators have a thing for. The album tracks the arc of a love affair: Rodrigo\u2019s love affair with the Cure. The pre-release tracks made that much clear. First, there was \u201cDrop Dead,\u201d in which Rodrigo made a big call-out with the words, \u201cYou know all the words to \u2018Just Like Heaven\u2019 \/ And I know why he wrote them \/ Now that you\u2019re standing right here.\u201d Then came the second single, which had nothing to do with the Cure except for the fact that it was called \u201cThe Cure.\u201d Next up in the batter\u2019s box, Rodrigo revealed, via a surprise duet at Primavera, that the new album\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Me\u201d actually features lead vocals from Robert Smith. You might have thought that was all there would be to it, but that\u2019s before you finally put on the album and find that it has the one missing piece, a song that actually sounds<\/em> like the Cure, \u201cMaggots for Brains.\u201d She\u2019s gone beyond a Cure trifecta on the album to a sort of Cure superfecta.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, if the entire album were marked by this late \u201980s\/early \u201990s revivalism, you might wonder if Rodrigo really did have a cranial worm infection. No, just an earworm infection \u2014 and as much good fun as the new wave throwback stuff is, it\u2019s more of a recurring flavor than something that turns \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad\u2026\u201d into some kind of revivalistic concept record. The less uptempo tracks sport a continuation of her penchant for acoustic balladry. (Welcome back, \u201cLacy\u201d \u2014 in winsome spirit.) And among the 13 tracks there\u2019s also a fair smattering of what can only be termed contemporary pop, without any nostalgic elements, apart from how she and Nigro make a superior use of choral vocal stacking that does recall some of the great harmony-based folk-pop recordings of yore. It\u2019s the most musically all-over-the-map of her three studio albums, and to its benefit; this is exactly the right time in a career to make sure everyone understands they didn\u2019t fill their full palette right out of the gate.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it\u2019s the emotional tenor that will linger, long after you\u2019ve finished debating online whether a particular electric guitar sound feels like more of a nod to New Order or the Strokes. There is a secondary love affair being essayed here beyond the one with Robert Smith, and Rodrigo did a fairly effective job in pre-release commentary of explaining how, thematically, this would be a two-part album. (The demarcation is literally where the LP side break takes place, though you\u2019ll get the idea quickly enough as a digital lassie or lad.) The first seven songs track Rodrigo\u2019s giddy infatuation with a new love, while the remaining six numbers on the flip follow her as she realizes she never was as happy as she thought she was, as ennui leads to a nearly anticlimactic-sounding breakup. She\u2019s said she intended<\/em> to go through with the experiment of an entirely upbeat record, but circumstances changed, and the diaristic nature of modern pop singing-songwriting demanded some gutsiness about how things went sour. By the final stretch of the album, it will become clear that she seems moderately heartbroken for a girl in romantic purgatory.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe mood that this mostly chronological album eventually settles into will seem more comforting to some fans, in some ways, than the happy-go-lucky stretch that it begins with. Of course we\u2019ll like her when she\u2019s mad! Except anger isn\u2019t the dominant emotion here, at all \u2014 although there are familiar flashes of it, especially in the moving and regretful closer, \u201cCigarette Smoke.\u201d Whatever romance Rodrigo is tracing the history of apparently did not end in cheating or any other horrible behavior that would lead her back toward the kind of recriminatory rockers that were among the previous albums\u2019 highlights. There are not a lot of gory or even careful details about what went wrong; mostly it\u2019s just a sense that her partner became passive while she stayed passionate, or tried to. Coming to the glum realization that love isn\u2019t outlasting infatuation is trickier to write about than a more incendiary subject like unfaithfulness, but Rodrigo pulls it off.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than once in the lyrics, Rodrigo mentions having a stomach ache as she grapples with whether this love she\u2019s extolled isn\u2019t everything it\u2019s cracked up to be. Talk about pretty in pink: for its second half, anyway, this is an album to drink Pepto-Bismol by. The world has already heard \u201cThe Cure,\u201d in which Rodrigo seems to claim an intrinsic toxicity in her very blood that even a partner\u2019s best efforts can\u2019t override. It\u2019s a centerpiece track to start off Side 2, and the finest song on the album, taking the better part of five minutes to build from a rapid-strummed acoustic riff in the fashion of Smashing Pumpkins or Foo Fighters to a snare-drum-and-strings crescendo that tips you right to the edge of your seat. \u201cI got toxins in my bloodstream \/ You tried hard to suck them out \/ And it feels like medication \/ And it\u2019s good for me I\u2019m sure,\u201d she sings. \u201cBut it don\u2019t matter how your love feels anymore It\u2019ll never be the cure.\u201d It\u2019s a classic \u201cIt\u2019s not you, it\u2019s me\u201d anthem of self-abnegation and doubt \u2014 and with a rush to the finish that strong, you\u2019re thinking, how is this not the climax of the album?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, because there is more storytelling to go before the real breakup occurs, and before she gets to the final \u201cIt\u2019s not me, it\u2019s you\u201d portion of the record. With the simple ballad \u201cBegged,\u201d recently previewed on \u201cSNL,\u201d Rodrigo allows that her lover is saying and doing all the right things, but it\u2019s not as meaningful as it should be because she had to coerce it out of him. The nagging feeling grows in the Smith duet, \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Me,\u201d which has very old-school synths and the most basic of drum-machine beats as backdrop to the two trading verses about how \u201cMy head is spinning and my stomach is sick \/ Say I\u2019m in love, so it\u2019s hard to admit \/ I can\u2019t eat, I can\u2019t sleep \/ I think you\u2019re what\u2019s wrong with me.\u201d The melody is sprightly enough that you could almost mistake it for a catchy love song, rather than a reluctant My boyfriend is the actual virus<\/em> song. <\/p>\n

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\n\tBut there\u2019s no mistaking this unpleasant sensation turning into actual heartbreak in \u201cLess,\u201d a piano-accompanied torch song that is about the torch going out. It\u2019s the closest thing she has done to a traditional chanteuse song, and she explores that unexpected mode beautifully, bringing real pain to a clever lyrical twist, as her partner \u201cdoes the noble thing\u201d and, after a failed attempt to stir the embers by recreating their first date, becomes the one to cut the chord. \u201cIf loving me means letting go and wishing me the best,\u201d she sings, \u201cthen I guess I wish I wish I wish you loved me less.\u201d And suddenly a sequence of songs that has been dealing with romantic ennui gets a knife-turn-in-the-gut twist that no amount of antacids will make feel better.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf this sounds like a dour way to be wrapping up the album \u2014 and it kind of is \u2014 well, there\u2019s always that giddy-as-a-lovestruck-schoolgirl first half to go back to. Anyone who is young and in love and wants to savor that feeling can just turn it off after track 7, and if you\u2019re more naturally inclined toward cynicism, you can enjoy those ebullient crush songs knowing that the heroine ie eventually headed for an unhappy ending, the same way the most heartless person can enjoy Maria feeling pretty in \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d Rodrigo really is unabashed in her embrace of (seeming) true love in the early numbers where blinders are fully on, like \u201cStupid Song,\u201d which insists in the chorus, \u201cI love you more than any stupid song can ever say,\u201d something that she really puts the lie to in the effervescent and perfectly articulate verses.<\/p>\n

\n\tWriting about happiness is harder than coming up with a good sad song, nearly any writer will tell you, and so it\u2019s indeed a pleasure to have Rodrigo turn out to be a perfectly expert crafter of silly love songs, while it lasts. In \u201cDrop Dead,\u201d she writes of a first date, \u201cAll pressed up in the bathroom line \/ You\u2019re looking like an angel on the walls of Versailles,\u201d and whether or not you\u2019re prone to accompanying your significant other through opposite-gender potty queues, you know exactly why this strikes Rodrigo in the throes of attachment as a rapturous image. She\u2019ll admit having gone through the motions of saying this stuff before, but in \u201cu + me = <3,\u201d Rodrigo sings, \u201cAll my ex-boyfriends have heard these lines (let\u2019s get married when we\u2019re 25) \/ But I like you better by a million times.\u201d What is obsessive desire without repeating every empty sweet nothing you\u2019ve ever said and telling yourself you mean it this time?<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are some enjoyable detours on these twin paths to romantic elation and ejection. A Side 1 highlight, \u201cMy Way,\u201d which only a songwriter under 40 could dare to title a new, original song, is the closest thing the album has to pop-punk; that style is pretty much right there, even though the arrangement focuses on a seriously retro synth more than guitar. It\u2019s a girl-on-girl jealousy rocker, as Rodrigo lays into her boyfriend\u2019s ex, who she\u2019s clearly web-stalking: \u201cYou\u2019re posting another pic \/ In clothes that I know are his \/ You\u2019re being fucking weird \/ Maybe I\u2019m a petty bitch \/ But you made me resort to this \/ That\u2019s it, I win!\u201d The album has plenty of mature-with-a-capital-M moments to come after this, but if you love the Rodrigo of \u201cAll American Bitch,\u201d it\u2019s nice to be thrown the bone of a tune this deliciously childish before things go sad and south.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd it would be a mistake to suggest that all of Side 2 is a slog, though it is a pretty sad stretch of work. The next-to-last track, \u201cExpectations,\u201d is actually one of the album\u2019s most rousing moments, as Rodrigo vows to learn from not having listened to her heart as she settled for unworthy men, presumably including the one the rest of the second half is about. With its comically retro bass-synth line and percussive hand claps, and a male chorus echoing her in singing \u201cShe\u2019s got real big expectations,\u201d the track nearly lands in the \u201980s realm of a Toni Basil tune, or \u201cMaterial Girl,\u201d but with wiser lessons to impart. Like: \u201cI will not lose my faith \/ Don\u2019t think my future husband\u2019s at this bar in Silverlake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut when the final stretch reverts to sad form for the closing number, \u201cCigarette Smoke,\u201d it gets angrier and spookier, as the singer wrestles with how to mourn a love that just sort of ended without any major trauma. \u201cI resent you for not being brave \/ Tell me something honest \/ So the memories turn dark\u201d \u2014 a feeling that anyone who has ever come out of a broken relationship that seemed OK on most surface levels will relate to and maybe want to have a belated cry about. There is one clue about what may have aggravated the final tension in real life: \u201cI resent you for taking her side,\u201d Rodrigo sings, mysteriously and without further context. Knowing her reluctance to dish in interviews, the audience may never find out what that aside means.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut whether she explains it all in literal terms or not, Rodrigo is a strong enough storyteller that there\u2019s rarely much doubt where \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love\u201d is coming from\u2026 which is a lot of after-the-fact doubt. Her ability to explore the full arc of a relationship this well \u2014 complete with a bit of foreshadowing in the more cheerful numbers \u2014 is still more proof of what a serious talent she is, above and beyond her angelic vocal stacking and perfectly pretty snarl. One thing is clear: She and Nigro should never, ever break up. And although her audience probably values her breakup songs most of all, perhaps they won\u2019t hold it against her if, the next time she determines to make a whole album about being blissfully in love, she actually finishes that one.<\/p>\n

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