‘Not the Typical High School Story’: Inside the Making of Olivia Rodrigo’s Concert Film ‘Sour Prom’

Every girl’s high school dream is to go to prom and have the night of their dreams, Olivia Rodrigo doesn’t live the most typical teen life so she had to miss out on her high school prom which she was sad about. As a result of missing her prom she wanted to create her own in a sense, she created a long music video performing her debut album in the sequence of a prom.  Olivia has been so grateful towards her fans that for the premiere of her video she asked some of her fans to her prom, gave them prom dresses, and treated them to a wonderful night all because she knows she wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of her fans. when creating the show they ran into a few bumps in the road like the location of the gym, it was supposed to be in a real high school gym but things fell through and they had to create their own stage, even though that happened that didn’t stop her from creating an amazing performance. The inspiration behind the prom came from many iconic movies like Carrie, and twilight, she wanted to create a deep story within her performance.  The first two songs that appear in the video are Deja Vu and happier which she mashed together, as she laying down the listeners can hear the natural beauty in her voice with little to no autotune, she creates this intense moment that makes the viewer feel all of the emotions that she felt when writing these songs. One creative technique she uses is when Olivia steps out of the limo we can see that there are four color groups, she did that to represent all of the cliques that exist in high school. As she says the prom was supposed to be a romanticized version of high school with how everything plays out, even though it’s not the most realistic it’s supposed to embody the idea of what high school is seen as.  All in all, I really love Olivia and her music, she is such a good person and really deserves all of the success she has received, sour prom is just another one of her amazing projects that did so well and I recommend watching it if you find you have time to.

 

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