Pratique du Shadowing: Olivia Rodrigo Reveals Her Top 3 Songs & Her Best Lyrics | My Life In 20 Questions - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Action in your life and you're like, okay cool.

Oh my god, that girl looks like she's gonna throw up.

Taking shots with Robert Smith.

I'd be like, girl what happened?

What happened?

I love the English breakfast tea every morning.

Doing an interview now.

Hey, I'm Olivia Rodrigo and this is My Life in 20 with capital butts.

Which film could you watch 20 times over and not get bored?

Twilight, next question.

I've just watched it so many times.

I've probably watched it 20,000 times.

It just never gets old.

I just feel like I can list every scene in order.

I can like, I memorize all the dialogue, like it's just, it just always makes me feel really happy.

Team Edward or TJ?

Team Edward.

Which niche random topic could you talk about for 19 minutes straight without notes?

I think I could maybe talk about like some weird niche music thing for 19 minutes straight, I don't know.

Maybe like some weird conspiracy theories, like some unsolved murder or something.

Oh good, too in detail of that, but yeah, I could probably talk about that for a while.

You were 18 years old when you released your debut album Sour.

In your opinion, what is the best debut album of all time?

Jagged Little Pill, probably best debut album of all time.

I think Tidal by Fiona Apple is probably the best debut album of all time ever.

Oh my gosh, my brain is so jet-lagged I can't even think.

So many great ones.

Coldplay Parachutes, awesome.

Yeah, a ton.

Those are the first that come to mind.

Oh yeah, Lord Pure Heroine for sure.

That album rocks.

Guts Spilled contains 17 tracks.

Sour contains 11, and your new album You Seem Pretty Sad for Girl So In Love contains 13.

Is there a perfect number of songs an album should have?

What's too long and what's too short?

I'm a proponent of like a concise album like a just to the point no filler Hopefully

so I think shorter is better a little bit as long as the songs are cool I guess Yeah, I haven't quite figured it out yet.

I've been writing a lot But we'll see what it turns into maybe I'll turn into Lux.

Maybe it'll turn into something else I don't know still figuring it out in the US.

It's tradition to go all out for your super sweet 16 It's the wildest or most memorable birthday you've ever had.

It's a good question.

I have a really fun 21st birthday I love my 21st birthday so much.

All of my friends were in town, which is very rare because I have so many friends all over the place

and they're always on tour or filming something somewhere.

And so all of my friends managed to be in town at one time

and I got really drunk on my 21st birthday and danced and had the time of my life.

So probably that one.

You made your SNL debut on May 15th, 2021 and recently did Double Duty.

Tell us a behind the scenes secret that surprised you working on the show.

I love SNL.

I think it's incredible.

I'm so impressed with like how they put that on every week.

I think what was really shocking to me is how much

they change the show legitimately right before you go on and film it.

Like literally 15 minutes before they're like, action and you're live.

They're like, oh by the way this whole scene is cut

and like we're adding this line and just like trying to memorize that thing and you're like, okay cool.

But it is so exciting and I am very very deeply impressed by all those people on that show.

They're very talented and hardworking so it's a fun gig.

It's a great question, so many things.

I think I hated hiking when I was 14.

My parents always dragged me on hikes and I was always really miserable on them, but now I love doing all that stuff.

Just like boring things, just like sitting around.

I remember my parents always would order a glass of wine and they'd make me stay after we finished the meal, 15 minutes, and I was like, oh my god, I just gotta go home and watch my TV or something,

and now I'm the queen of that, wanting to linger at the dinner table.

So that amongst other things.

You were 13 years old when Bazaardvark debuted on the Disney Channel.

What's your favorite memory from that experience?

Meeting my best friend Maddie on Bazaardvark, It's actually her birthday today, so happy birthday, Maddie.

And we've had so many, so many incredible memories on that show, stuff we still laugh about to this day.

It was a really fun time, a strange way to grow up, but very fun nonetheless.

We weren't instant friends.

We both remember seeing each other in the audition room, and our first impressions of each other were that both of us were really nervous.

She looked at me, and she was like, oh my god, that girl looks like she's gonna throw up.

Like, she's so anxious, and it's true.

I was very anxious at the time.

And I remember thinking the same thing about her.

I remember looking over it, and she was reading her lines really crazily, trying to memorize all of them.

And so we weren't instant friends, but we have been like best friends for 10 years and haven't wavered, no fights or nothing.

You started playing guitar when you were 12 years old.

What was the first song you learned how to play?

I think I learned how to play an Ed Sheeran song.

What is this song?

What's like that?

Like when your legs don't work like they used to before.

I think that's the first song I learned how to play.

Thinking Out Loud, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thinking Out Loud.

And I sang with him at BST Hyde Park last year, which was really fun too.

So full circle moment.

We sang song 18, which is, I love that song.

That's my favorite song of his.

Yeah, shout out Ed Sheeran.

In Drop Dead you sing, I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer.

What's your favorite lyric you've ever written?

Probably a lyric maybe in the new album.

I really love so many of the lyrics in Honey Bee.

I hope I never see what your face looks like going, a face that I spark, it's been my whole life knowing is pretty, or shooting stars, racing cars, everything I own just feels like ours.

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I was really happy when I wrote that.

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Maybe those are my favorite lyrics at this given moment in time.

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If you could relive any 10 minutes of your life so far, what would it be?

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That's a great question.

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I'm like in England doing music stuff, so right now I think I would say I would love to go back

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and relive the 10 minutes after I got off of stage at Glastonbury.

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That was incredible and all of my family and friends were there

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and I was on such a high

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and I was taking shots with Robert Smith

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and all my friends were there and blowing champagne bottles up in the air and it was awesome.

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I would love to go back and relive that 10 minutes.

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Track nine on Guts is love is embarrassing and many fans argue that it should have been an official single.

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How do you choose your singles?

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It's a great question.

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I think for this album I was very particular about the singles

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because I wanted the singles to reflect the emotional arc that the album took on.

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So starting with Love Song and then slowly sort of unraveling with The Cure.

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So yeah, it's different every time, but that was my thinking this time.

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Are there any songs on Sour or Guts that were almost singles?

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Randomly, we almost made Enough For You the third single with Sour instead of Good For You, which would have been crazy.

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I love that song, but I'm like, why?

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Good fear is a much more obvious single choice.

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Yeah, but everything happens for a reason, so.

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What was your biggest fear when you were eight, and did you ever have any funny encounters because of it?

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I always thought that Ursula from The Little Mermaid was hiding behind one chair in my house, and I would never sit on that chair.

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That freaks me out.

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I also got really freaked out at the Peter Pan movies, like the old ones, really freaked me out.

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The thought of going to Neverland and never seeing my family, my mom and my dad again, was so scary.

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And I actually still do get a little freaked out when I go on the ride at Disneyland.

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That's the Peter Pan ride.

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Seven is a lucky number.

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There was a theory that OR3 was going to be called Luck.

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How did you land on the title, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love?

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Actually, Dan, it was something that Dan said.

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And we were talking about something, and he said something along the lines of, You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

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And we were like, that's perfect.

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Like, that has to be the album title.

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I think it's perfectly reflective of what I was going for in the songs, which was trying to write a love song

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and inject it with a little bit of sadness and melancholy and something that grounds it.

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So when we found it, we were very excited.

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It's a very long title and it's definitely a mouthful, but I love it nonetheless.

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Did you intentionally want to break away from the four letters?

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Yeah, I think I was never going to make it a four letter album.

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I also feel like I had exhausted all of the four letters.

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Like, there's a notes app in my phone of all the four letter words I could think of and I was like, none of it's doing it for me.

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So I was excited to do a really long one, kind of comically long.

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So if you could invite six celebrities, dead or alive, to go on the ultimate night out with, who would you invite and where would you go?

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay, I really don't think I'm gonna have a very intellectual answer for this, let's see.

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You know what, I'd invite JFK because I wanna hear all the gossip from him.

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I'd invite him.

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I'm thinking of, it'd be way more fun to invite dead Maybe like Cleopatra would be cool, see what her life was like.

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Honestly, just like someone from like the medieval ages, like just a random person.

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So I could be like, what was it like living in like during the plague?

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Like that would be way more interesting to me than like, I don't know, royalty or something.

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Okay, that.

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Maybe like Jeff Buckley.

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Oh, you guys, I'm so jet lagged.

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I can't think of anything.

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Amelia Earhart.

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I'd be like, girl, what happened?

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What happened?

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And then my friend Maddie would have to go there too, because I would just need her to help me with the conversation

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because she's a really good conversationalist and so she could get all the answers, all the hot goss out of people.

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Final five.

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Name five things you can't live without.

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My friends, music, my headphones, I can't go anywhere without my headphones these days.

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We're in England, I love an English breakfast tea every morning.

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I have this one specific blanket that I bring everywhere with me to every country

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that makes me feel like I'm at home.

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Kind of a lame answer, but is what it is.

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That's sad.

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You and AirPods are what?

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I'm wearing AirPods lately, but I feel like it's bad for your ears or something.

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I don't know.

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Wired would be cooler, but AirPods is just so convenient.

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Describe yourself in four words.

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Doing an interview now.

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I don't know.

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What are your top three songs of all time?

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Oh my god.

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Man, Seven Nation Army, Martha by Tom Waits.

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You inducted White Stripes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Yeah, yeah I did.

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That was so, so special.

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I was so nervous.

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That was one of the performances I was the most nervous

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for in my life was inducting the White Stripes into the Rock

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and Roll Hall of Fame because the White Stripes mean everything to me.

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And singing a White Stripes song while Jack was in the audience was very nerve-wracking, but it was a wonderful experience.

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Name two things on your bucket list.

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I've never been to Greece.

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I like to go to Greece.

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I don't know if it's a bucket list, but I'm just thinking.

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These answers are so dumb.

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Um, and...

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I'd like to play a show at Red Rocks or something.

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That would be cool.

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These are not very deep answers, you guys, but I just woke up.

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Sorry.

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Okay.

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Aw, who or what is your one true love?

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I'd say my best friend Maddie is my one true love.

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She's my soulmate, and it is her birthday today, so...

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Everyone comment, happy birthday, Maddie.

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Thanks so much for watching.

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Thanks, guys.

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Not Amelia Earhart.

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I was, like, racking my brain.

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You know, those Instagram things where they're like, name a woman.

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I'm like, no one can name a woman.

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I was like, uh-huh.

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