Olivia Rodrigo's new album explores love as a physical illness
By
Molly Mary O’Brien
Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
Summary
A review of Olivia Rodrigo's album "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love," which explores love as a physical illness through cataloging romantic indignities and symptoms like upset stomach, low appetite, and mental dissociation. The article frames Rodrigo's work as a detailed examination of love's physical manifestations.
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The spinning head and butterfly-filled stomach of a crush could be mistaken for an oncoming flu; a breakup can feel like the kind of wasting disease that used to send women to the sanitorium to convalesce on the beach, wrapped in wool blankets.
Rodrigo uses her talent for cataloging the various indignities of romance to draw up a list of physical symptoms, from upset stomach to low appetite to total mental dissociation.
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