{"id":33849,"date":"2022-04-01T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/featured\/driving-home-2-u-is-a-sweet-treat-for-sour-fans-5\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T21:16:35","slug":"driving-home-2-u-is-a-sweet-treat-for-sour-fans-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/culture\/driving-home-2-u-is-a-sweet-treat-for-sour-fans-5\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Driving Home 2 U’ is a Sweet Treat for ‘SOUR’ Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a year since Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s iconic debut album SOUR<\/em> dropped, and life just keeps getting sweeter. At the beginning of 2021, the 19-year old singer-songwriter was starring as Nini Salazaar-Roberts in the Disney+ musical drama television series High School Musical: The Musical: The <\/em>Series<\/a> while writing sad love songs offscreen. She was known most exclusively to young viewers of the show, but by the end of the year, \u201cOlivia Rodrigo\u201d would be a household name.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the massive success of her first single, \u201cdriver\u2019s license\u201d<\/a> \u2013 as well as the highly publicized real-life breakup drama surrounding the song\u2019s origin \u2013 Rodrigo became one of the hottest breakout stars of the year and continued her meteoric rise to fame with the release of SOUR <\/em>in May 2021. Not only has SOUR <\/em>been certified triple platinum in the United States, but it has contributed to Olivia\u2019s seven nominations<\/a> at the upcoming 64th<\/sup> Annual Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

Now, almost a year later, the 2022 Billboard Woman of the Year<\/a> is sharing her most personal moments of her songwriting journey during SOUR<\/em>\u2019s creation. On Friday, March 25, Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)<\/em><\/a> was released for streaming on Disney+. The documentary film invites fans on a road trip with the young star as she visits and performs at various scenic locations in Utah and California where the album was written.  <\/em><\/p>\n

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Olivia Rodrigo is honest, optimistic, and humble as she reflects on what was undoubtedly the most transformative year of her life. Releasing her first single unexpectedly propelled her to worldwide fame during her senior year of high school. Through intimate interviews and previously unreleased studio footage featured in the documentary, Rodrigo attempts to comprehend all the drastic changes in her life since the success of \u201cdriver\u2019s license.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of driving home 2 u<\/em>\u2019s biggest treats for fans is the new live arrangements of her songs, which she performs at gorgeous outdoor venues all over the west coast. Whether belting out the cynical lyrics to \u201cgood 4 u\u201d accompanied by a full orchestra in the open valleys of California\u2019s Red Rock Canyon State Park, or building the track to her heartbroken ballad \u201ctraitor\u201d with a keyboard and drum machine in a gas station parking lot, Rodrigo brings her trendy teen-pop songs to new depths of emotional vulnerability. She also includes a long-awaited snippet of an unreleased song, \u201cbaby is you,\u201d during the film\u2019s credits.<\/p>\n