What happens when you go from Disney bit-part player to pops biggest new superstar in the space of a month? Its a very specific mindbender that Olivia Rodrigo tries to unravel on her follow-up to 2021s record-breaking, Grammy-winning debut, Sour (the album that featured her transformational hit Drivers License).

As with that album, Guts dabbles in pepped-up pop-rock (the deliciously camp Bad Idea Right?; the bratty Get Him Back!) and delicate, close-mic balladry as on the pretty-sounding Lacy. But pay closer attention and Lacy drips with bile, the seemingly angelic title character, whom Rodrigo idolised, now out to get her: You poison every little thing that I do.

A similar sentiment courses through lead single Vampire, which blooms from mi