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Olivia Rodrigo returned to the Grammys stage on Sunday night with a performance of “Vampire,” her multipart suite about an unworthy ex from her second album, “Guts.”
“Vampire” debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in June. Rodrigo told The New York Times that at first she was hesitant to write a song about a partner exploiting her celebrity because she feared the experience was self-indulgent. “I’ve always tried to write about the emotions rather than this weird environment that I’m in,” she said. But the point of songwriting “is to distill all of your emotions into their simplest, purest, most effective form.”
The rock-leaning singer and songwriter entered the ceremony with six nominations, locked in a tie with Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, the indie supergroup boygenius and the genre-blending bandleader Jon Batiste. (They all trailed SZA, with nine, and Victoria Monét and boygenius’s Phoebe Bridgers, who had seven apiece.)
Notably, Rodrigo scored nominations in all three of the Grammys’ big all-genre categories. “Guts” is up for album of the year, part of a field that also includes SZA’s “SOS” and Swift’s “Midnights.” In record of the year and song of the year, “Vampire” is competing against Swift’s “Anti-Hero” and SZA’s “Kill Bill.”
For best pop vocal album, “Guts” went up against Swift’s “Midnights” (which won the award) and Cyrus’s “Endless Summer Vacation” as well as Kelly Clarkson’s “Chemistry” and Ed Sheeran’s “-” (called “Subtract”).
Rodrigo also nabbed a nomination for best rock song, where her “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl” faced off against the Rolling Stones’ “Angry,” in a matchup between one of the Grammy’s youngest nominees (Rodrigo is 20) and some of the oldest (the Stones’ average age is about 78). (“Not Strong Enough” by boygenius won that prize.)
Indeed, although Rodrigo operates in the high-stakes realm of pop stardom, “Guts” tilts heavily toward rock. Rodrigo told The Times that she has “always loved rock music, and always wanted to find a way that I could make it feel like me, and make it feel feminine and still telling a story and having something to say that’s vulnerable and intimate.”
Daniel Nigro, the producer who worked with Rodrigo on “Guts,” also received a nomination for producer of the year, non-classical.
Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour starts in Palm Springs, Calif., on Feb. 23. Her global trek has more than 60 stops, heading across the United States, Canada and Europe before wrapping up in Los Angeles with four shows ending Aug. 17. Set to open in various cities are the Breeders, Chappell Roan, PinkPantheress and Remi Wolf.
At the 2022 Grammys, Rodrigo was nominated for seven awards and won three, including best new artist.
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