nk, 45, Beyoncé, 43, Sabrina Carpenter, 25, and Olivia Rodrigo, 22. A social media critic summed it up by saying: 'I don't even care if she's taking inspiration it's the fact that's it's ...

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Few musicians in recent history have seized the cultural zeitgeist as quickly as Olivia Rodrigo. Well before her early twenties, she had already remapped what it is to translate heartbreak, ...