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Driving will never be a tired muse for pop music.
1 debut of 2021 based onearly projections.
Thats a pretty weird sentence to get past.
Made by a 17-year-old Disney star??
With a song aboutlearning to drive???
But Rodrigos song only got here thanks to a legacy of teenage singlesbefore it.
Speaking of Swift: The song closelyfollows the footsteps of the pop stars current barer-bones singer-songwriter period.
(Swift endorsed both that cover and drivers license.)
But drivers license isnt Swift imitation itsmore like a Frankenstein version of the past decade or so in pop.
Rodrigosquiet moments recall Billie Eilishand heranthemic ones recall Lorde, withbits of Alessia Carain between.
(The video shoots for aesthetic, generally, with no action to compel it.)
Just, seatbelts just!
