OlderOlivia Rodrigo Reveals the 'GUTS' Song She 'Tortured' Her Producer About & the Battle Over Which Song Would Be the First Single
Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro are opening up about their GUTS process.
The singer and producer opened up during a performance and conversation in Los Angeles Monday night (October 10) at a special AmEx event.
During the night, Olivia and Dan spoke about selecting “Vampire” as the lead single, via Variety.
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“I would say it was definitely one of the hardest decisions we had to make together,” Dan said.
“I definitely lost a lot of hair because of that. My favorite song, I was outvoted deeply on. I was literally like standing on an island by myself being like, ‘bad idea, right, bad idea, right’… everyone’s like, ‘Vampire’! I mean, I get it, actually, why ‘Vampire’ would work better, but I still, was just really excited about ‘Bad Idea, Right?” and everybody seeing the more sarcastic side of Olivia that I don’t think was really apparent” on Sour.”
Even after “Vampire” was picked, “I tortured Dan for so long, for months” about the arrangement, Olivia said.
“Like, ‘No, it’s too fast, it’s too slow, we need to change it by one BPM.’ … We probably have 20 versions of different BPM. And nobody even notices.”
“I would get home and talk to my wife and she’d say, ‘How was the studio today?’ Like, ‘Well, we had a philosophical conversation about tempos and speeds of songs for 12 hours, and then we both went home crying. That was the day,’” Dan said.
