SWEET (Album)

"SWEET" is the Sophomore album by Olivia Rodrigo. This album is also known as the "Follow Up" to her debut album "SOUR". Olivia starting working on the album the same time as sour as she had the idea to split the album into 2 pieces. She wrote over 30 songs for Sweet and over 40 for Sour. She released the lead single "GROSS" on September 4th and announced the album the same night. SWEET Was Released on the 14th of September and hit Number one on the charts in over 72 different countries.

A Bonus track edition of the album was released 1 week later with 3 extra tracks.

After the success of both "SWEET" and "SOUR" she embarked on the "Sweet & Sour Tour" in early 2022

BACKROUND
Olivia began working on "SWEET" after the success of good 4 u. She said in an interview. "Good 4 u, Deja Vu & Drivers License have made such an impact on my life and will always mean the world and i'm so excited to see if I can one-up myself with new stuff to come". Olivia stated there are no scrapped songs from "SOUR" in the album these are all brand new and tell the other side of the story.

On August 16th she posted a picture of her in the studio and captioned it "Im Looking for a silver lining..." She quickly deleted it and the caption ended up being some lyrics from a song on the album called "Silver Lining"

On August 21st she posted a snippet of a song on her instagram story tagging "Conan Gray" who is a good friend of Olivia and is a fellow Musician.

On September 1st she did a Q&A on instagram and revealed something is coming super soon.

On September 4th Olivia Deleted all social media photos and started posting teasers every hour until midnight when she dropped the lead single of the album "GROSS"

SINGLES
Olivia dropped the lead single to "SWEET" on September 4th at midnight after teasing that something was coming all day.

"GROSS" was the lead single and it debuted at number one in 30 different countries and makes it her 6th most streamed song on Spotify to this date.She said on instagram later that night "I Wrote gross in my house when I was 15 I posted it on YouTube and it changed my life I knew I had to do something I couldn't let it rot and so I brought it to dan and we recreated it and i'm so happy how it turned out I hope you are ready for a new journey and i’m excited to say that my sophomore album and the Other side of sour "SWEET" can be pre ordered right now and will be yours on 14th September Im so excited to start this new journey with you all"

THEME
Olivia said in an interview that the theme is love "The theme for sweet is just love. Sour were the bitter parts about a relationship and Sweet is really just the lovey parts in the relationship"

SCRAPPED SONGS

 * 21st Century Girls


 * Im Yours


 * Rebel without a clue


 * White Flowers


 * Pay grade


 * Just Because I Love You


 * OverRated


 * Out of sight, Out of mind


 * Wedding Song


 * Lover's Piano