{"id":504093,"date":"2026-06-17T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:30:09","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-seems-pretty-sad-but-does-she-still-generate-bangers-pop-culture-happy-hour-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504093\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo seems pretty sad, but does she still generate bangers? : Pop Culture Happy Hour : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781688609_687_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3378x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F45%2F4f%2Fbeedf29e46b1934caf50f8fd16cc%2F9506cc6f-b870-461d-ac81-d5957e7f05d7.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Olivia Rodrigo\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Olivia Rodrigo<\/p>\n<p>                    Olivia Parker<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Olivia Parker<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo is back blending spikey rock with tender ballads. How do we feel about her evolving sound? Her third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is a collection of fizzy, sometimes jagged pop songs about a love that goes amazingly well until it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for other fizzy pop songs, check out:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/06\/nx-s1-5560827\/taylor-swift-re-enters-her-banger-era-in-the-life-of-a-showgirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Swift re-enters her banger era in &#8216;The Life of a Showgirl&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/04\/nx-s1-5526878\/sabrina-carpenter-returns-with-the-short-and-saucy-mans-best-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sabrina Carpenter returns with the short and saucy &#8216;Man&#8217;s Best Friend&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/11\/nx-s1-5743431\/harry-styles-new-album-has-vibes-all-the-time-bangers-occasionally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harry Styles&#8217; new album has vibes all the time. Bangers, occasionally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nprpopculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letterboxd<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pchh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Our weekly newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/happy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Support Pop Culture Happy Hour+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo Olivia Parker hide caption toggle caption Olivia Parker Olivia Rodrigo is back blending spikey rock with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-504093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}