Olivia Rodrigo reveals multiple songs on ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ were inspired by Miranda and Steve from ‘Sex and the City’:
“There’s this [scene] when Miranda and Steve are getting back together, and she’s crying, and she’s like, ‘Steve, anytime something funny happens, I just want to tell you!’ I remember watching and being like, ‘Oh my god, I have to write a song about this.’”
I think my favorite read of THE DRAMA is it as an examination of America’s mass violence fetish running parallel with our instinct to perform morality and grade ourselves against others. The hypocrisy is obvious but still so skillfully depicted, especially in the performances.