she's everything we're insecure about, or: why we love talking about why we love Olivia Rodrigo

With little else to unite us in conversation during a time of digitally-enhanced immediacy and isolation, I’m always obsessed with the mainstream headspace we devote to female pop stars, as if we’re a bunch of ancient Greek peasants forever inventing myths about our faves (I mean, remember The Powerpoint?). Especially right now, you’ve got all these fas…