Olivia Rodrigo scored seven Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist. 'I think heartbreak is so universal,' she told us in her recent cover story. 'The feeling that lots of humans feel the most deeply.'
A hundred percent. They knew every minutia of what I’m going through. But that’s what’s beautiful about art — you can just fill in the gaps with pieces of your own life. By trying to feel like you can control what people project onto it, it loses magic.The projection is sometimes intense, but I feel like people in the public eye and artists in particular are social activists by mistake, because we’re these screens upon which people project everything.
I don’t think anyone is meant to look at that stuff. I don’t think we as human beings are supposed to know what thousands of people think about what we wore or what we said or how we talk. I think having that separation is really important — realizing that that’s not real life, you know what I mean? That world that is created online, it’s just one facet of this very big human existence.
You’ve both made hugely successful albums about heartbreak. What is it about that topic that attracts so many fans?I think heartbreak is so universal — the feeling that lots of humans feel the most deeply. I’ve never felt as deep a sadness as I did when I was truly, truly heartbroken and devastated. Putting “Drivers License” out was such a unique experience because I’ve lived this sort of weird life. I grew up on set and didn’t go to school like everyone else did.
And when I put out “Drivers License,” about this really hard time in my life, I watched it just affect so many people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender or age. There would be 40-year-old guys that would come up to me and be like, “Wow, that really struck me.” Even if they weren’t going through a situation like that, they were like, “Oh, it takes me right back to when I was in high school and I went through my first heartbreak.
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