OLIVIA RODRIGO HITS HER HIGHEST PITCHFORK YET

## Growth, scored Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love pushes her artistic evolution forward, and the critics noticed. Pitchfork handed it an 8.3, her highest score yet, which for an artist at this level reads like a new tier of critical respect. ## The video makes the case The stupid song video feels like a visual representation of that growth, grounded in the consistency that has defined her from the start. She keeps trading familiar settings for bigger ones, a bedroom for Central Park, a convenience store for a bodega, a mini keyboard for a full piano, cheerleaders for ballet dancers. The scenes feel familiar, but the scale keeps rising. ## Why the score matters As reviewer Molly Mary O'Brien put it, on the last track of 2023's GUTS, Rodrigo asked when she would stop being great for her age and just start being good. "That time is now," O'Brien wrote. The 8.3 is the institutional version of that sentence. Rodrigo has cleared the prodigy bracket. Watch how this album ages, because the next move is the hardest one, proving the leap was a floor and not a ceiling. ## Related Reading - [RADIOHEAD CREEP FINDS A NEW LIFE ON TIKTOK](/article/radiohead-creep-tiktok-billboard-return-f8f99c) - [HALSEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PAINTER FIRST](/article/halsey-visual-art-painting-sothebys-14afcf)