OMGOlivia Rodrigo Announces Debut Album! Details on New Music — Release Date, Tracklist, More

The Album’s Release Date

The songstress’ debut album is set to be released on May 21, 2021.

Previously, she told Nylon that her goal for 2021 was to “put out more music” and “be a better artist.”

The Tracklist

Nylon reported that Olivia has “about eight songs she’s happy with,” but along with her album announcement, it was reported that 11 songs will be on the record.

“Deja Vu” and “Drivers License,” are set to be included along with never-before-heard tracks titled, “Brutal,” “Traitor,” “1 Step Forward. 3 Steps Back,” “Good 4 U,” “Enough for You,” “Happier,” “Jealousy, Jealousy,” “Favorite Crime” and “Hope Ur OK.”

Her Music’s Sound

“I want it to be super versatile,” the Disney Channel star explained during her conversation with the magazine “My dream is to have it be an intersection between mainstream pop, folk music, and alternative rock. I love the songwriting and the lyricism and the melodies of folk music. I love the tonality of alt-rock. Obviously, I’m obsessed with pop and pop artists. So I’m going to try and take all of my sort of influences and inspirations and kind of make something that I like.”

Similarly, Olivia explained the feel of her music during her April 2021 chat with The Face. “I feel like music is becoming increasingly genreless. I suppose I’m considered a pop artist, but I’ve never felt like one,” she said. “This album is full of stuff that I like, which is so diverse. There are elements of alternative rock in there, alt-pop, some country and definitely a lot of folk. I think anyone can find something they like hidden in one of the songs.”

Writing Her Music

“I’m a teenage girl, I write about stuff that I feel really intensely — and I feel heartbreak and longing really intensely — and I think that’s authentic and natural,” Olivia told The Guardian in May 2021. “I don’t really understand what people want me to write about; do you want me to write a song about income taxes? How am I going to write an emotional song about that?”

She continued, “Something I’m really proud of is that this record talks about emotions that are hard to talk about or aren’t really socially acceptable especially for girls: anger, jealousy, spite, sadness. They’re frowned-upon as bitchy and moaning and complaining or whatever. But I think they’re such valid emotions.”

When it came to making the album, Olivia also told W that she “tried to write all these songs” about things other than heartbreak, but explained, “it just didn’t feel like it resonated with me; it didn’t feel authentic.”

“I want my songs to feel like something I need to say. I’d rather have songs that feel personal to me than songs that people could dance to,” she told the publication.  “I’ve gained a lot of confidence in myself. When you go through heartbreak and you’re really young, it feels like the end of the world. You just don’t have the experience to know that other things are going to happen in your life. Even my favorite artists — I’ll listen to the heartbreak songs they wrote at 17 versus, like, 25, and the younger ones are pathetic and earth-shattering in this really cool way.”

The Success of ‘Drivers License’

While discussing the song’s success with Billboard in January 2021, Olivia said, “To see it do really well — to have this really painful moment in my life and turn it into something beautiful that can maybe help people through a tough time that they’re having, like I was having a tough time — it’s just so empowering.”

Going forward, she has plans to continue being “vulnerable” with her songwriting. “I’m a big oversharer in all aspects of my life. But I think the best songs are songs like that,” the singer told Nylon. “So that’s just kind of something you have to grapple with being a songwriter; people are going to see the most intense, intimate moments of my life, but that’s what makes it beautiful.”