i'm a perfect all-american bitch!

Lady Bird (2017) | Coraline (2009) | Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney | Gone Girl (2014) | Drive, Ashton Irwin | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | August, Taylor Swift | Keep Driving, Harry Styles | Breaking Bad (2008-2013) | Reckless Driver, Lizzy McAlpine | The Office (2005-2013) | August, Taylor Swift

i'm actually so obsessed with the sequencing on guts. we start off with all american bitch, which is all about the frustrations of being a girl and feeling boxed in by society. it's the perfect intro into the album. then bad idea right starts off the story, where olivia is aware she's making a mistake reconnecting with an ex but does it anyway. in vampire we find out why it was a mistake and that this person was just using her and taking advantage of her innocence/naivety. part of the reason that she fell into this person's trap is explained in lacy, which introduces her struggles with worshipping girls that are prettier than her, causing her to seek the validation of an older guy. with ballad of a homeschooled girl, the downward spiral continues and she's listing all of her mistakes (but in a fun way), and by making the bed, she admits that she's partly to blame for what's happened (but in a sad way). she's choosing to party and hang around people that don't give a fuck about her, and she's pushing away her real friends who would want her to snap out of it. she's aware she's fucking up, but she can't bring herself to do anything about it, so she keeps on making the same mistakes and blaming herself. logical continues that train of thought, about how she's partially responsible for her pain, but specifically in relation to (who i assume is) the same guy from vampire. she gets angry again in get him back, and she's so conflicted, wanting to hurt him and be with him again all at the same time, which is kind of embarrassing, leading into love is embarrassing, but in grudge, we learn that she's just not ready to let go yet. pretty isn't pretty brings us back to her insecurities aka the reasons why she's let societal expectations and boys hold so much power and control over her. finally, teenage dream ends the album with her wondering if she's wasted her teenage years yearning to be older and wiser, and fearing that "it will get better" is a myth, which is literally the reason for her struggles throughout the album, bringing everything full circle i-

Chappell talking about her friendship with Olivia : new obsession unlocked

My main takeaway from episode 10 was that Aemond’s dragon egg never hatched because my guy was never meant to learn to drive.

For some reason, he was allowed to joyride the Bugatti Vhagar at like 10 and just ride around.

Fella had not passed his theory test or nowt. No wonder he took out Luke and the Ford Arrax like that. Boy still needs them L plates on

THE BEST SONG OFF DEBUT TURNS 16 TODAY

also spotify ought to stop this smart shuffle where i am listening to my own liked songs and itll suddenly throw in music i have never touched in my life like olivia rodrigo. i am not a teenager do not ever imply i wanna listen to that

I'm not usually that kind of person but I couldn't help but notice

His Forever Girl -Chapter 1

Chapter 1 is up

It's 12 years later, and we dive into Emma's world first, seeing what she's been up to and how she's been dealing with the heartache from the prologue.

Enjoy it here: FF.NET and on AO3

Thank you to all who read this, reviews are always a pleasure to find in my inbox.

drivers license // olivia rodrigo

PSA: Don't wait until like 3 days in advance to update your driver's license.

the soundtrack is my least favorite part of the summer i turned pretty there's just too many needle drops let's calm down why are you playing lover when we're seeing conrad for the first time

i see all the mutuals are speaking out about their hate for driving and well. if you guys need a lift i can do it i’ll pick you up from the party and we can drive around the backstreets and then get a frozen coke from mcdonald’s . if you want :-)

I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE LAST WEEK

driver's license: A Music Retrospective

2021 was the year. We were still knee deep in the global pandemic and needed some drama to entertain ourselves. Then it came. A newcomer to the music industry, Olivia Rodrigo, dropped her first single (outside of her work in the Disney show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (yes, that’s the real name of the show)) and it was called driver’s license. It immediately resonated with people, especially teenage girls, and her talent was evident in the track. However, people wanted to know, as they always do, who this emotional song was about.

So the people dug through the mud to find him. And find him they did. This person was Joshua Bassett, Olivia’s co-star in HSMTMTS (I’m not writing that full name again). And who was “the blonde girl” Rodrigo sang about? None other than Sabrina Carpenter, who was seen close and personal with Joshua. This is the simple run down of the characters in this piece.

Since it all started with driver’s license, we will start with Olivia’s music. Most of SOUR is about her relationship (and her break up) with Joshua. Some songs really work for me and others not so much. I’m not one for the ballads and “sad girl music”. But some of Olivia’s vocals and harmonies, combined with the simple and direct lyrics, make great sad music. In retrospect, I do like GUTS better than SOUR, but it’s pretty solid for a debut. It is noticeable through her lyricism that Joshua really hurt Olivia, whether he meant to or not.

Next we will examine Sabrina’s responses, plural, because one was more successful than the other. I must say I’ve been a fan of Sabrina since Girl Meets World (another Disney show and, yes, a spin-off of Boy Meets World) and her music really is more my style. So musically, I will be biased to her. However, her first response to this drama was to release Skin, a not so polished song that feels like a diss track against Olivia, including the line “maybe blonde was the only rhyme” (referring to the “blonde girl” lyric in driver’s license). As I stated before, it’s clear Olivia was really hurt by Joshua and Sabrina’s relationship, so releasing a song where you brag about having the man on your arm instead of her doesn’t seem like a smart move. Fortunately everyone forgot about that release and she was able to create her album emails i can’t send and her new response to the drama. And I say “response to the drama” and not to Olivia, because the song this time is much more focused on the aftermath of driver’s license. because i liked a boy is a really well constructed and, more importantly, well thought out song, where Sabrina unleashes her frustrations with what happened to her because of Olivia’s song. Death threats were sent to her and Olivia did nothing to stop them, while Joshua appealed to the goodness of Olivia’s fans. Sabrina’s only crime was, as she sings in the chorus, liking a boy. And she also reveals that “when everything went down, we’d already broken up”. Sabrina’s side results in a near flawless pop album (where not all of the songs are about Joshua) and it’s better than SOUR in my opinion, but it’s almost like she’s been doing it longer than Olivia.

Joshua’s side was the latest I arrived at and, to be honest, I’m glad I did. Let the ladies get their versions out before I analyse the man’s in the situation. When I did research on this topic (because I didn’t know what songs to listen to on Joshua’s part), the song Lie Lie Lie showed up the most. It feels like a slap to Olivia’s face. It’s evident that Olivia was pouring her heart out into her art and Lie Lie Lie just downplays it all. Then, I listened to the rest of Joshua’s discography and found some other songs that could apply to the situation, though I’m not sure they are about Olivia. Only A Matter of Time is also about how this person is lying about a certain situation (“you twisted your words like a knife”) that could be applied to Olivia’s album. Crisis is a more inward look into the drama, claiming Joshua also suffered from this whole affair. The lyrics seem to implicate Olivia’s album and attitude after the release of her music, with lines like: “If you get to tell your truth, so do I”, ”Messing with my life as a career move” and “You sensationalise, keep fanning the flames for the headlines''. And finally, the song SHE SAID HE SAID SHE SAID refers back to the drama, the rumours around the couple and Sabrina and how it’s all “he said she said” and we’ll never know exactly what happened with these three. Musically, Joshua’s side is the weakest, in my opinion, and he doesn’t have the lyricism and production that the girls have. It’s not my type of music, even less than Olivia’s, this style of “sad boy music” is getting tiresome to me.

To finalize this analysis, I want to say that I don’t hate any part involved and if anything good came of this, it was the amazing music. Go stream all of the sides and decide for yourself who “won” this drama, or just enjoy all sides equally. I can’t tell you what to do, I’m not your mother.

‘Cause how could I ever love someone else?

- “drivers license” by Olivia Rodrigo