Show Notes
Olivia Rodrigo's chart-topping new single "drop dead," the lead single from her forthcoming third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, breaks one of pop's oldest rules by abandoning the traditional second verse and replacing it with something entirely new. From Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" to Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" and Chappell Roan's "Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl," a growing wave of today's biggest pop stars are ditching the verse-chorus formula listeners have been trained to expect for decades. Rodrigo didn't invent the second-verse switch-up, but on "drop dead" she may have just killed off the predictable second verse for good.
Songs Discussed
Frank Zappa "Charlene"
Olivia Rodrigo "drop dead"
The Cure "Just Like Heaven"
Jean-Baptiste Lully "The Tragey of Armide" Ryan Brown conducting Opera Lafayette
Olivia Rodrigo "drivers license"
Olivia Rodrigo "good 4 u"
Olivia Rodrigo "vampire"
Olivia Rodrigo "ballad of a homeschooled girl"
Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire — Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Mariah Carey "Fantasy" (ft. Ol' Dirty Bastard)
Blackstreet "No Diggity" (ft. Dr. Dre, Queen Pen)
Peter Gabriel "Don't Give Up" (ft. Kate Bush)
Kendrick Lamar, SZA "luther"
Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars "Die With a Smile"
Post Malone, Swae Lee "Sunflower"
HUNTR/X "Golden"
Joshua Bassett, Olivia Rodrigo "Start of Something New"
Matt Cornett, Olivia Rodrigo "What I've Been Looking For"
Olivia Rodrigo "All I Want"
The Avett Brothers "I and Love and You"
Sheryl Crow "Strong Enough"
Sabrina Carpenter "Please Please Please"
Sabrina Carpenter "Manchild"
Chappell Roan "Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl"
Chappell Roan "HOT TO GO!"
Chappell Roan "Red Wine Supernova"
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