Having already scored two No. 1 hits on the
Billboard Hot 100 and earned the biggest opening week for an album by a female artist in global Spotify history, Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album
SOUR has clearly taken the world by storm. But is it also ushering in a new era for teen pop-punk and pop-rock?
Prior to the album’s release on May 21, and following somber power ballad “drivers license” and the more upbeat, Taylor Swift-esque “deja vu,” listeners were caught off guard when they heard the pop-punk-influenced “good 4 u,” which garnered comparisons to Paramore’s raucous 2007 hit “Misery Business” and even led the