回复：Billboard’s Greatest Pop Stars

第二位：Rookie of the Year — Olivia Rodrigo

For this year’s update of our ongoing Greatest Pop Star by Year project, Billboard is counting down their staff picks for the top 10 pop stars of 2021 all this week and next. Before that, a tribute to the rookie artist who blew away all the other first-timers this year: the rapidly ascendant singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo.
为了今年我们正在进行的年度最佳流行歌星项目的更新，公告牌本周和下周都在倒计时2021年前10名流行歌星的员工选择。在此之前，向今年吹走所有其他初学者的新秀艺术家致敬：迅速崛起的歌手兼作曲家奥利维亚·罗德里戈。

Olivia Rodrigo’s seemingly instantaneous rise to the top is a tale that dates back less than a full calendar year. The world had the joy of experiencing the arrival of pop’s new It Girl unfolding in real time in those early weeks of January – though the sequels that followed the blazing success of her debut single “Drivers License” have considerably aged the memory. It wasn’t some contrived effort cooked up by executives and higher-ups that catapulted a then-17-year-old Disney actor-turned-singer-songwriter into global visibility, but rather it was the raw emotional honesty of a love-scorned teenager ravaged by heartbreak that won audiences over.
奥利维亚·罗德里戈似乎瞬间登上顶峰的故事可以追溯到不到一个完整的日历年。世界很高兴体验了流行音乐的新It Girl在1月初几周实时展开的到来——尽管她首张单曲《驾驶执照》取得巨大成功的续集已经大大老化。不是高管和高层捏造的一些人为的努力让当时17岁的迪士尼演员变成了歌手的作曲家，而是一个被心碎蹂躏的被爱鄙视的青少年的原始情感诚实赢得了观众的青睐。

Rodrigo had written “Drivers License” in her bedroom at home at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The world may have suddenly started to fall apart, but internally she was already way ahead of it. Reeling from a breakup, the singer hopped in her car and drove aimlessly around her suburban neighborhood for an hour – lost in the music of pop newcomer Gracie Abrams’ coming of age debut EP Minor, a project tackling the uncertainty and confusion of young love. When she returned home, Rodrigo made a beeline for her piano.
在冠状病毒大流行高峰期，罗德里戈在家里的卧室里写了“驾照”。世界可能突然开始崩溃，但在内心上，她已经遥遥领先。这位歌手因分手而摇摇欲坠，跳上她的车，漫无目的地在郊区附近开车一个小时——迷失在流行新人格蕾西·艾布拉姆斯成年处女作EP Minor的音乐中，这是一个解决年轻爱情的不确定性和困惑的项目。当她回到家时，Rodrigo为她的钢琴排了个航线。

What materialized from that spark of sudden revelation was a despairing address to a past partner, detailing the inescapable reminders of a future full of joint plans that had suddenly been diminished to a cloudy, lonesome journey. She’d uploaded a snippet of what she came up with to Instagram a few days later: “I got my driver’s license last week, something we always talked about / ‘Cause you were so excited for me to finally drive up to your house / But today I drove through the suburbs, crying ’cause you weren’t around.”
从突然揭露的火花中实现的是对过去伴侣的绝望的讲话，详细说明了对未来充满联合计划不可避免的提醒，这些计划突然变成了阴云、孤独的旅程。几天后，她向Instagram上传了一段她想出的东西：“我上周拿到了驾照，这是我们一直在谈论的事情/‘因为你太兴奋了，因为我终于开车去你家了/但今天我开车穿过郊区，哭了，因为你不在身边。”

It was an early version of the first major new hit of 2021, before Rodrigo linked with writer-producer Dan Nigro to shape “Drivers License” into the unmistakable, car door-sampling mega-ballad the world has become intensely familiar with. That official recording wouldn’t come for another few months, taking the new year by storm as the singer-songwriter’s debut single on Geffen Records. As a familiar face on Disney, she had already built up a hefty audience, responsible for the virality of her first Hot 100 entry “All I Want” – performed and co-written by Rodrigo for her character on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. It was only right that “Drivers License” got the TikTok treatment, too.
这是2021年首大热门歌曲的早期版本，在罗德里戈与编剧兼制片人丹·尼格罗联系，将“驾驶员许可证”塑造成世界已经非常熟悉的明确无误的汽车门采样巨型民谣之前。官方录音将持续几个月，作为这位歌手兼作曲家在Geffen Records上的首张单曲，这让新年风靡一时。作为迪士尼的一张熟悉的面孔，她已经建立了大量的观众，为她的第一个热门100首曲《我想要的一切》的病毒性负责——Rodrigo为她在《高中音乐剧：音乐剧：系列》中的角色表演和共同撰写。“驾照”也得到了抖音的待遇，这是对的。

Rodrigo told the New York Times that she had written the cinematic “red lights, stop signs” piano transition into the bridge of “Drivers License” with future TikTik videos in mind. Within its first week of release, the song’s official audio had been used in over 250,000 videos with over 23 million views. Now, it’s soundtracked more than 1.8 million videos. In that same week, “Drivers License” sped its way to streaming records, earning the biggest weekly debut for any song in U.S. Spotify chart history, with more than 30 million streams. It has since surpassed 1.1 billion streams and spent eight consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Hot 100.
Rodrigo告诉《纽约时报》，她写了电影般的“红灯，停车标志”钢琴过渡到“驾照”桥，并考虑到了未来的抖音视频。在发行的第一周内，这首歌的官方音频已被用于250，000多个视频，观看次数超过23，000次。现在，它有超过1.8万个视频的配乐。同一周，“驾驶员许可证”加速播放唱片，赢得了美国所有歌曲中最大的每周首播。Spotify图表历史记录，拥有超过30百万条流。此后，它已经超过1亿条溪流，并在热门100强中连续八周排名第1。

The saga of “Drivers License” was a pop anomaly, but the social conversation around it wasn’t completely unfamiliar. For months before its release, inquisitive fans had been piecing together bits of information that pointed towards an alleged love triangle between Rodrigo, her HSMTMTS co-star Joshua Bassett and fellow Disney actress Sabrina Carpenter. Some had even dubbed the trio the next Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas. But Rodrigo kept quiet, insisting whenever possible that the focus should remain on the music. Anyone looking to speculate about the rest of the story would have to listen to Sour – the singer’s full-length debut, shared in late May.
“驾照”的传奇是一个流行的反常现象，但围绕它的社交对话并不完全陌生。在它发布之前的几个月里，好奇的粉丝们一直在拼凑一些信息，这些信息指向Rodrigo、她的HSMTMTS联合主演Joshua Bassett和迪士尼女演员Sabrina Carpenter之间所谓的三角恋。有些人甚至给三人起了个绰号，下一个麦莉·赛勒斯、塞琳娜·戈麦斯和尼克·乔纳斯。但罗德里戈保持沉默，尽可能坚持把注意力放在音乐上。任何想猜测故事其余部分的人都必须听Sour——这位歌手的完整处女作，于5月下旬分享。

The album’s foundation was further built on her two subsequent pre-release singles, the spectrum-spanning “Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” – layering a lowercase aesthetic over the wildfire of teenage melodrama, and sparking comparisons to fellow Gen Z whisperer Billie Eilish. Rodrigo was steadfast in putting a stop to the one-hit wonder conversations before they even had a chance to truly set in.
这张专辑的基础进一步建立在她随后的两首预发行单曲上，即跨频谱的“Deja Vu”和“Good 4 U”——在青少年情节剧的野火上分层了小写美学，并引发了与Z世代窃窃私语者Billie Eilish的比较。Rodrigo甚至在他们有机会真正开始之前就坚定地停止了一举成名的神奇对话。

“Deja Vu” arrived as a sweet follow-up that showed off the lingering creative effects of the decade Rodrigo had spent being raised on the music of Taylor Swift. Littered with the familiar, hyper-specific detailing found in her debut, her sophomore single release shed the winter blues for the warmth of a blooming spring. The punchy yelling of the bridge was inspired by a similar structure used on Swift’s Jack Antonoff-produced track “Cruel Summer” – so much so that the pair, plus co-writer St. Vincent, were retroactively added to the writing credits of “Deja Vu” in July. Rodrigo didn’t seem too bothered by sharing credit; it was minute to the grand scheme of what was to come.
“Deja Vu”作为甜蜜的后续作品的到来，展示了Rodrigo在泰勒·斯威夫特音乐上成长的十年来挥之不去的创造力。她大二的单曲专辑被她处女作中熟悉的、超具体的细节所揭示，为盛开的春天的温暖而淡出冬天的忧郁。桥的强烈喊叫声的灵感来自Swift的Jack Antonoff制作的曲目《残酷的夏天》中使用的类似结构——以至于这对夫妇加上合著者St.Vincent，在7月份追溯性地添加到“Deja Vu”的写作学分中。Rodrigo似乎不太担心分享信用；对于即将到来的宏伟计划来说，这是微不足道的。

Rodrigo didn’t even whip “Deja Vu” out for her debut performances on Saturday Night Live. – instead, she made her mark with a full band pop-punk show for “Good 4 U.” The angst-ridden track veered away from both of its preceding singles: Here, she wasn’t somberly heartbroken or spitefully sweet, she was in livid disbelief. The Petra Collins-directed music video was marked with flames and cult film references. It became her second single to debut atop the Hot 100, adding fuel to the fire of pop-punk’s mainstream revival. While there were other artists pushing this sound to the forefront on radio in 2021, most weren’t topping the charts with it. This was the draw of Rodrigo as a young female musician – this unabashed inclination to dwell in every heightened and contradictory emotion, instead of putting on a front for anyone else’s benefit.
Rodrigo甚至没有为她在《周六夜现场》的处女作表演而出场“Deja Vu”。相反，她为《Good 4 U》制作了全乐队流行朋克节目。焦虑不安的曲目偏离了之前的两首单曲：在这里，她不是忧郁的心碎或恶意甜美的，她欣喜怒无味。佩特拉·柯林斯执导的音乐视频带有火焰和邪教电影参考。这成为她第二首在热门100强中首次亮相的单曲，为流行朋克主流复兴的火焰增添了燃料。虽然2021年还有其他艺术家在电台将这种声音推到了最前沿，但大多数人并没有用它来达到排行榜的首位。这就是罗德里戈作为一名年轻女音乐家的吸引力——这种厚颜无耻地倾向于沉浸在每一种高度和矛盾的情感中，而不是为他人的利益而战线。

When Sour arrived in full, it only leaned into this further. Seething new album cuts “Jealousy, Jealousy” and “Brutal” steeped themselves in the damning cycle of comparison and obsession that comes with existing as any young person, let alone in front of a sudden audience of millions. Heart-shattering ballads “Happier” and “Traitor” stole the show both in vocal performance and lyrical honesty, leaving in all of the moments of uncertainty, shifting cadences and gasps of breath with complete transparency. Over the course of 11 songs in 35 minutes, Rodrigo made a point of validating her own experiences with a poignant conviction that couldn’t be discredited.
当酸完全到达时，它只会进一步倾斜。看到新专辑的剪辑“嫉妒、嫉妒”和“残酷”让自己沉浸在作为任何年轻人一样存在的充满比较和痴迷的该死的循环中，更不用说在突然的数百万观众面前了。令人心碎的民谣《更快乐》和《叛徒》在声乐表演和抒情诚实方面都抢尽了风头，在所有不确定的时刻留下了节奏的变化和喘息，完全透明。在35分钟内创作了11首歌曲中，Rodrigo以令人心不得损害的辛酸信念来验证了她自己的经历。

And it paid off. Sour debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 with 295,000 equivalent album units. At the time, it marked the second-largest streaming week for an album by a female artist, and became the first debut album in history to have two singles debut at No.1. The early months of Rodrigo’s achievements coincided with the conclusion of her high school career: She’d been homeschooled, so the world’s switch to remote learning wasn’t entirely jarring, but it was unusual to not be able to play shows or see the physical manifestation of her recent success. In the interim, she shared Sour Prom, a dreamy 27-minute live concert film. It was a charming introduction to Rodrigo as a grand-scale performer, adding longform visual aid to the words of a gifted songwriter.
它得到了回报。Sour在公告牌200上首次亮相，拥有295,000张等效专辑。当时，这是一位女艺术家专辑的第二大流媒体周，并成为历史上第一张首次亮相两首单曲的专辑，排名第1。Rodrigo成就的最初几个月恰逢她高中生涯的结束：她在家上学，所以世界转向远程学习并不完全刺耳，但不能表演或看到她最近成功的物理表现是不寻常的。在此期间，她分享了一部梦幻般的27分钟现场音乐会电影《酸舞会》。这是对罗德里戈作为一名大规模表演者的迷人介绍，为一位才华横溢的作曲家的话语增添了长篇视觉辅助。

2021 has undoubtedly been the year of Sour, and Rodrigo is ending this whirlwind of a rookie season on a high note. In January, she’ll attend her first Grammys as a nominee, where she’s up for each of the Big Four awards. Then, she’ll have a chance to emerge to a full audience as she embarks on the international Sour Tour. From April to July, the singer will make stops in the U.S., Canada and Europe with special guests Baby Queen, Holly Humberstone and – for a full circle moment – Gracie Abrams. When she eventually moves on from theaters and ballrooms to sold out arenas, with more elaborate shows and even more music, this explosive first year of Rodrigo’s career will continue to feel further and further away. But it’ll feel like even more of a privilege to have watched it all happen.
2021年无疑是酸年，罗德里戈正在高调结束新秀赛季的旋风。今年1月，她将以提名人的身份参加她的第一次格莱美颁奖典礼，在那里她将参加四大奖项中的每个奖项。然后，当她开始国际酸之旅时，她将有机会出现在观众面前。从4月到7月，这位歌手将与特邀嘉宾Baby Queen、Holly Humberstone和Graceie Abrams一起在美国、加拿大和欧洲停留。当她最终从剧院和舞厅搬到售罄的竞技场，拥有更精致的节目和更多的音乐时，罗德里戈职业生涯中爆炸性的第一年将继续感觉越来越远。但看到这一切发生，感觉更荣幸。

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