Olivia Rodrigo Songs for When You’re Feeling ‘Sour’ About Valentine’s Day
If youāre feeling sour about love, youāre not alone. In 2021, Olivia Rodrigo released her Grammy Award-winning breakup album, Sour, featuring āFavorite Crime,ā āTraitor,ā āDrivers License,ā and other songs to get you nostalgic this Valentineās Day. Here are a few of our favorites.
ā1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Backā
Relationships have their ups and downs. In ā1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back,ā the narrator described the dichotomy of being the love of someoneās life, but only until she āmade them mad.ā Did they love her, want her, or hate her? Who knows? Who can understand?
āCalled you on the phone today,ā Rodrigo sings. āJust to ask you how you were / All I did was speak normally / Somehow I still struck a nerve.ā
āTraitorā
With one person starting a relationship shortly after, āTraitorā explores the idea of feeling cheated ā without being cheated on. In the chorus, Rodrigo states, āIt took you two weeks / To go off and date her / Guess you didnāt cheat / But youāre still a traitor.ā
In a pretty clear parallel to her relationship with Joshua Bassett, Rodrigoās High School Musical: The Musical: The Series cast member began dating Sabrina Carpenter shortly after the breakup.Ā
āFavorite Crimeā
Break out the tissues. As noted on Genius, in this song, the narrator recognizes how toxic her relationship was ā and that sheās partly responsible for its longevity. As a turning point in the album, Rodrigo begins to move on, wishing that she would be her ex-partnerās āFavorite Crime.ā
āItās bittersweet to think about the damage that we do,ā the bridge states. āāCause I was going down, but I was doing it with you / Yeah, everything we broke, and all the trouble that we made / But I say that I hate you with a smile on my face / Oh, look what we became.ā
āGood 4 UāĀ
Getting over a breakup isnāt easy ā but being a chart-topping songwriter does help. In the āGood 4 Uā music video, Rodrigo let everything go up in flames ā literally. Dressed in a cheerleader outfit, the actor snagged gasoline (and some Smartfood popcorn, of course,) from a grocery store.Ā
The lyrics share a similar indignant attitude toward the narratorās past relationship. They moved on really easily. Thatās good for them.Ā
āDrivers LicenseāĀ
Even if youāre not 17 years old with a brand-new driverās license, this song truly captures the feeling of driving through your hometown, wondering what couldāve been. Sigh.Ā
āI got my driverās license last week,ā Rodrigo sings. āJust like we always talked about / āCause you were so excited for me / To finally drive up to your house / But today I drove through the suburbs / Cryinā ācause you werenāt around.ā
As one of the most popular Sour songs, āDrivers Licenseā was also one of Rodrigoās first originals (outside of her work with Disney) released on most major streaming platforms.Ā