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How Olivia Rodrigo Overcame Writer’s Block to Write Her Phenomenal New Album, 'GUTS' · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Much has been said about the difference between Olivia Rodrigo's
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Speaker 2: first album, Sour, and a new album, Guts. The first
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Speaker 2: batch of songs was written when she was relatively unknown,
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Speaker 2: and she still assumed nobody would even pay attention to them.
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Speaker 2: But the second album was written when she was a
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Speaker 2: household name and knew every lyric would be scrutinized, and
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Speaker 2: she admits that shift created a creative block until she
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Speaker 2: realized something about her own life experience. She tells interview,
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Speaker 2: this sounds weird to say, but I think over time,
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Speaker 2: I've realized that I'm really not that special. Sure, I
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Speaker 2: was homeschooled, and all this stuff happened in my career,
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Speaker 2: but then I really boiled my problems down and realized, oh,
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Speaker 2: they're just nineteen year old and twenty year old problems
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Speaker 2: in a different environment. If you speak honestly about any experience,
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Speaker 2: then someone is going to find truth in it. There
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Speaker 2: is plenty of truth packed into Guts, which is out
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Speaker 2: everywhere today.
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