Olivia Rodrigo 'Guts' Album: Singer Wrote Up to 150 Songs, But Only 12 Are Good Enough?

Olivia Rodrigo joins Bennett on a new episode of Most Requested Live to discuss her most recent single "Vampire," her upcoming album "Guts," how many songs she has written for the album, her songwriting process, and the expectations she faces to top "SOUR." Turns out, the singer worked her hardest for this newest album, writing a total of 100 songs!

Olivia explained why she thought "vampire" was the ideal song to begin this GUTS era. She said it was always one of her favorite songs on the record. She continued, slyly aware of the pun that they wrote it last winter, and she remembered feeling like it was extremely special as she was writing it.

Olivia continued that she really thinks it's really the ideal opening to the album. It's not altogether drastically different from SOUR, but she believes it still signifies a steady change into something new and different.

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Olivia said she probably wrote 100 to 150 songs for the album, "just 'cause I love writing," describing herself as "a strength in numbers kinds of writer," explaining she writes many songs and "only a fraction of them are any good."

The majority of them, according to her, are "just terrible," and only approximately 20 of them were really recorded; from there, they chose the 12 that are included on the album.

Olivia claims that when it comes to writing all those songs, "ideas strike at the strangest times," therefore the most of the time she is either building to her extensive library of voice notes or taking notes in her notes app.

Despite the fact that she doesn't always feel inspired, she has nonetheless "been kind of trying to practice just getting up every morning and sitting at the piano and trying to write," as she puts it.

Olivia also discussed the songs she wishes she had written and the people she asks for advice when working on new songs (a process that occasionally involves going to In-N-Out).

When Rodrigo launched her debut album, Sour, in May of that year, she made history by being the first artist in history to place her first three singles in the top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100, making the details of her private life an object of fervent public curiosity. More than 40 billion streams of the album have been made worldwide.