She’s about to show 21 subsequent month, however on the subject of issues of the human coronary heart, singer songwriter actress Olivia Rodrigo is smart past her years.
When it involves spinning poetry from fractured relationships and trampled hearts, Rodrigo is arguably in the identical league because the mega Princess of Pop, Taylor Swift.
“In my albums, they’re very diaristic in nature,” she tells Deadline’s Crew Call podcast in a particular episode co-hosted by Katie Campione.
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No extra is that this evident in her Oscar short-listed end-credits track from Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds Snakes, “Can’t Catch Me Now,” which is written from the viewpoint of Rachel Zegler’s nomadic bluegrass singer-turned-fierce pen fighter, Lucy Gray Baird and the emotional launch and triumph she beams in after breaking off her romance with Hunger Games mentor Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), who all of us now turns into the mega villain within the core Hunger Games canon.
Says Rodrigo, “I really was so inspired by her and her actions and the plot. I remember there was one scene in particular, there’s a scene in the movie, no spoilers, but something really intense happens. And there’s this overhead shot of all these birds in the trees that are just like ducking in and out. And it was like the climax of the movie for me. And I remember thinking, I really want to write a song that captures that exact frame.”
“Can’t Catch Me Now” options piercing passionate lyrics that vividly seize Baird’s spirit:
But I’m within the bushes, I’m within the breeze
My footsteps on the bottom
You see my face in each place
But you possibly can’t catch me now
Through wading grass, the months will cross
You’ll really feel it throughout
I’m right here, I’m there, I’m everywhеre
But you possibly can’t catch me now
No, you possibly can’t catch me now
Listen to our dialog with Rodrigo under
While Rodrigo was impressed by the Appalachian of us songs in Suzanne Collins’ tome, she wished to make the end-credits track her personal, but nonetheless adhering to Hunger Games‘ people themes.
Rodrigo talks with Campione about her rocket ship from Disney Channel thespian to touchdown her report deal, from the primary time she picked up guitar on Bizaardvark to penning the track “All I Want” about her character Nini’s struggles with romantic love “but also kind of mirrored my own at the time,” says the songstress.
“That was kind of the first song that I ever wrote all by myself that I put out into the world and it’s how I got my record deal and sort of spawned this whole amazing journey that has been the last few years,” the Murrieta, CA native provides.
Rodrigo tells us that when she’s in want of artistic inspiration, “I love listening to like OG singer-songwriters. I find that that’s an endless well of inspiration. I was listening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkel while making Guts and this Hunger Games song. I listened to a lot of Carole King and Joni Mitchell and people like that I feel like always move me.”
“So yeah, they’re on heavy rotation.”
Next up for Rodrigo this yr is her Guts world tour, which kicks off on Feb. 23 in Palm Springs for 75 exhibits all through North America and Europe this yr at iconic venues reminiscent of Madison Square Garden, Kia Forum, Sportpaleis, The O2 and extra.
Check out Rodrigo’s video under of “Can’t Catch Me Now,” which she co-wrote along with her producer Daniel Nigro.
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