SOUR, Sunny

I’ve been called salty many times, but never sour, so take the below with a grain of... Anyway:

C₃H₅O(COOH)₃ — On a scale ranging from Corey Feldman to Miley Cyrus, Rodrigo is on the brighter side of the curve. Already familiar with the megahits from radio/TV/TikTok, the whole album has the marks you’d expect today—high energy, low energy, swelling/longing finale—all linked by a sour-ed young love theme.

CH₃COOH — It’ll be a cold day when pop music stops curling back on itself. Ofc the Billie Eilish branch of pop style continues to grow, voice stylings/choral backgrounds used to effect all through the album. What’s interesting is the flavor of nostalgia mix-in: more pop-punk than the '80s vibes we’ve seen previously on RC. However, Rodrigo being four years old when her paramour sang makes as much sense as my contemporaries using '80s sounds.

(It is unclear which era the T9 writing is gesturing towards.)

H₂SO₄ — Some sort of pop has to play on the PA at Burlington and/or Hobby Lobby (where you’re buying a new gaiter to then adorn with Lisa Frank). A Rodrigo track might catch your ear, whereas much of the remaining Top40 sea washes over your head, day after day, without remark. That’s worth something.

P.S. Rodrigo is certainly in the running for this year’s Dua Lipa Millennium 2000 Award for song that is catchy-but-too-catchy. Still, it’s only June; it would be absurd to rule out the Albanian queen this early.