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#8. traitor
Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
Nominator: Player_0 (1/5)
Time: 3:49
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLvEIXlF6Q
Initial Rankings: Batch 4 - 3/15 (B) & Rubric 2
FLUX: Down 1 Spot

It's only been happening the past few weeks, but the first nine seconds key to "Past Lives" in my brain. Just a thing. Listen to the beginning for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tce06Ijzli8

Anywho, traitor just pierces the deepest of all five of her nominated songs. "drivers license" is more transcendant and visually attuned, but also has those moments when her life is so far removed from mine that I disconnect completely. "vampire" cuts and bleeds, but I'm filled with empathy and dismay for other people. "good 4 u" is a fun take on struggling with life and relationships and complicated emotions. "traitor" is raw, relatable, personal, and complicated and is absolutely what being a teenager feels like (Past Lives indeed!). It's holding onto something, suspecting something, and getting your heart ripped apart. The betrayal is there. It's speaking those core feeling about relationships where no one does anything really wrong or evil, but that shit happens and the pain is still there, and the ignorance of another's pain. I think it's a masterpiece.

1st Place. Player_0
#43. Olivia Rodrigo, "get him back!"
#17. Olivia Rodrigo, "good 4 u"
#16. Olivia Rodrigo, "vampire"
#12. Olivia Rodrigo, "drivers license"
#8. Olivia Rodrigo, "traitor"
Average Score: 19.2
Total Score: 96

There's only one person left with all songs above your total score, and their lowest is 95. You're gonna rank overall first no matter what. Completely unexpected. Never listened to Olivia Rodrigo, still haven't listened to anything outside these five, and the only outside context for anything I have is that Sabrina Carpenter who I know exclusively from Girl Meets World may or may not be the older blonde girl in "drivers license." She's a Disney generation so far removed from where I left. But her work... it's damn good. If I were born twenty years later, her two albums would probably be current me's Hybrid Theory and Meteora; played endlessly, all the teenage angst and pain, and awesome melodies. Thank you very much for introducing me to an artist I would probably pass by completely.