Sour reminds me of the best parts of being a teenage girl,” says Erin, a 38-year-old in Michigan, who’s been blasting “Good 4 You” with her 10-year-old daughter. “It’s like a magical portal back to when I was just figuring out my own shit and who I wanted to be as a woman.” Rodrigo is us as teens, but better, freer.
She voices truths that we were rarely brave enough to whisper during Truth or Dare, or to write in our LiveJournals. “I’m not cool and I’m not smart,” she sings in “Brutal," before adding, “I wish people liked me more.” Maybe these lines hit with older listeners because we have the hindsight to know doubt isn’t a teen phase.
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