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Still, such self-imposed comparisons to her messier forebears draw attention to a relative sheen that continues to halo Rodrigo, a former child actress who got her start starring in an \u201cAmerican Girl\u201d movie and two high-profile Disney series. Even when playing distorted electric guitar chords in a punk-rock frock, there remains about her a telegenic poise.<\/p>\n
Just the same, Rodrigo\u2019s excellent first two albums \u2014 the spirited 2021 debut \u201cSour<\/a>\u201d and the more mature but still effervescent 2023 follow-up \u201cGuts<\/a>,\u201d two of the sharpest and most consistent pop LPs of the decade so far \u2014 injected some smart, spiky energy into the Gen-Z musical mainstream. While \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad\u201d has moments that match the heights of her most inspired work, on the whole it is the first album she has released that feels less than revelatory.<\/p>\n Rodrigo first launched into the stratosphere with \u201cDriver\u2019s License<\/a>,\u201d a shattering, piano-driven confessional written with and produced by the Long Island emo veteran Dan Nigro<\/a>, with whom she has continued to work ever since. Seamlessly melding universal feelings with the specifics of Rodrigo\u2019s own life, \u201cDriver\u2019s License\u201d possessed the power to lift teenage experience up to an exalted state and to make anyone older than that remember, quite viscerally, what it was like to be young and heartbroken.<\/p>\n That early success, though, might explain why Rodrigo\u2019s subsequent albums have become increasingly bogged down by inert piano ballads \u2014 a minor flaw of \u201cGuts\u201d that becomes more noticeable on this solemn third album, which chronicles a romantic relationship in its entirety, from the tingle of infatuation through the slow accumulation of doubt and an eventual breakup.<\/p>\n The strict adherence to that chronology sometimes stilts the album\u2019s momentum. \u201cDrop Dead\u201d is an exuberant opener, but there is an immediate drop-off in energy during the next two tracks, the anxiously impassioned \u201cStupid Song\u201d \u2014 which begins with forlorn piano chords and takes too long to build toward a more thrilling, Lorde-like second half \u2014 and the dreamy, atmospheric love song \u201cHoneybee,\u201d one of two tracks on which Rodrigo is the sole writer, which she delivers with a delicate fragility. (The songwriter Amy Allen<\/a>, best known for her work with Rodrigo\u2019s ex-rival Sabrina Carpenter, has a co-writing credit on five of the 13 tracks.) \u201cIt\u2019s too hard to describe this in a way that feels honest,\u201d Rodrigo sings, echoing the sentiment of the previous song, on which she had just gushed, \u201cI want you more than any stupid song could ever say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Still, such self-imposed comparisons to her messier forebears draw attention to a relative sheen that continues to halo Rodrigo, a former child actress who got her start starring in an \u201cAmerican Girl\u201d movie and two high-profile Disney series. 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