What Songs Does She Perform?
Olivia Rodrigo's Setlist for Guts Tour
Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour set list is expected to mostly include songs from her second studio album, Guts, which was released in September 2023. The album includes singles like “Vampire,” “Bad Idea Right?” and “Get Him Back!” She’s already performed a majority of the songs at events like Jingle Ball, and she’s sure to also perform songs from her previous album Sour. See Olivia Rodrigo’s full Guts track list below.
In an interview with Apple Music in July 2023, Rodrigo explained how she came up with the title Guts after her first album, Sour. “I’ve had it for a long time. I had it actually when I was making Sour. I’m like, ‘I want the next one to be Guts‘. I like had it in my head, four letters, all caps, just like Sour, I love it,” she said.
She continued, “I just think it’s an interesting word. People use it in so many interesting contexts, like ‘Spill your guts’. ‘Hate your guts’. It means bravery, but it also means intuition, like listen to your gut. I just think it’s all of these things that coincidentally were things that I’ve really been thinking about in this chapter.”
As for what makes Guts different than Sour, Rodrigo told Apple Music, “To me this new album Guts, and this new song ‘Vampire’, kind of feels like a natural progression, a natural step forward in my life and sound and music.”
Rodrigo also told Apple Music in September 2023 about how her caeer and artistry has changed since the release ofSour in 2021. “I think the first time around I was just filled with so much adrenaline, I was like, ‘OK, wow, this is happening. I’ve never done this before,’” she said of Guts. “This time it feels a little more real and it’s a scary thing to know that people are going to be curious and they’ll maybe have a lot of ears on it.”
She continued, “I think that, in general, making this album has given me a lot of confidence as a songwriter. I think writing the first album, it just felt so spontaneous. I was 17 years old learning how to write songs for the first time and just pouring my heart out. I had so much to say. I think this time I was in a different place and I was having a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations placed on me and I think I really had to try to block out the noise and just focus on the craft of songwriting. I wasn’t going through my first 17 year old heartbreak and I think that it forced me to be maybe a little bit more creative in the way that I write.”
As for the theme of Guts, Rodrigo told Apple Music, “I feel like when you’re making the album, you can’t really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what’s about or what you’re trying to get across. Sometimes you just wake up and go into the studio and see what comes out of you. In hindsight, I think that a lot of this album is about the confusion that comes with becoming a young adult and figuring out your place in this world and figuring out who you want to be and who you want to hang out with and all of that stuff. I think that that’s probably an experience that everyone has had in their life before, is just that rising from that disillusionment.”
Rodrigo also revealed that she recorded 25 songs for Guts and confirmed that “some of them will definitely see the light of day” even though she didn’t include them on the album. She also told Apple Music that “Teenage Dream” was the first song she wrote that made it onto Guts. “The last line is a line that I really love and it ends the album on a question mark,” she explained of “Teenage Dream.” “The line is, ‘They all say that it gets better. It gets better the more you grow. They all say that it gets better. What if I don’t?’ I like that it is like an ending, but it’s also a question mark and it’s leaving it up in the air what this next chapter is going to be. It’s still sort of confused, but it feels like a final note to that confusion, a final question.”
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