Before she performs “Teenage Dream” during her Guts World Tour, Olivia Rodrigo usually shares a little bit of teenage reality from her past. She composed the ballad “a few days before my 19th birthday,” she says while sitting at the piano. When am I going to stop being wise beyond my years/And just start being wise? goes the song. At the time she wrote it, she admits, “I was so afraid of growing up.” Now, having turned 21 in February, she assures her fans, many of whom might be at a point to feel something similar, that “growing up is f---ing amazing. It’s nothing to be scared of.”
With two hit albums, armloads of awards and a mutual admiration society that includes generations of rock, alt and pop luminaries…
