Olivia Rodrigo recently launched the tracklist of her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Guts, on streaming platforms – along with it is the running time of the album, and well… people are not exactly loving it.
The album, which contains 12 songs, featuring the recently released singles “bad idea right?” and “vampire” will have a duration of 39 minutes – an average length for a standard album.
People are criticizing the album for having a “short” duration, especially since this will be Rodrigo’s follow-up album to her hit debut album Sour – which runs for 34 minutes with 11 songs.
you’ve been working on the album for 2+ years and its only 39 minutes…? https://t.co/QuI6otdAPo pic.twitter.com/yNKlPcIN29
— sam ❦ (@endedbysam) August 15, 2023
Olivia….She needs an intervention at this point … what the hell am I gonna do with another short ass album?! https://t.co/sh1P03jTW6
— Carine 🩵 Eras Tour Tickets SECURED (@CarineK) August 15, 2023
You could literally put Sour and Guts back to back on one CD https://t.co/rPfPomXwo8
— MAStermind 🩵 (@samisntokay) August 15, 2023
What happened to hour+ long albums??? https://t.co/rhjctfdJVF https://t.co/hQlC0gYF7b
— ✨ (@queenr_56) August 16, 2023
Gurl that's an EP… How you got 12 songs and it ends up being under an hour?! We need to stop the 2min son epidemic https://t.co/sKa59FalYQ
— unrealed unearthed (@Zuttizutto) August 15, 2023
artists who make you wait 2 years for an album length like this deserve jail https://t.co/TGJ9mKiOzb
— Jamir (@Melodramir) August 15, 2023
what is up with these short albums?? artists never want to work these days! https://t.co/D7tYU9biW8
— kam 💗 (@kamoriphobic) August 15, 2023
However, some people are defending the artist saying that the album’s length is in fact normal, with other artists having albums of the same length or shorter – saying some people are just trying to hate Rodrigo for no reason.
sour 34 minutes
pure heroine 37 minutes
IGOR 39 minutes
thank u next 41 minutes
wwafa 43 minutes
lemonade 45 minutes
25 48 minutes
CTRL 49 minutesshort albums are normal, it’s really not that serious for y’all to be acting like this.. https://t.co/kiWQaThb9U
— Madboy ⁶𓅓 (@takecarehours) August 16, 2023
why are people mad, this is like.. standard album length 😭😭 https://t.co/UDGfiME4ah
— ✨ (@magdalenepop) August 16, 2023
y'all r genuinely so dramatic 40 minutes is so ok for an album😭😭 you could literally listen to the whole thing getting ready in the morning it's the perfect length https://t.co/seWqrWCL5B
— 🌷 (@b3aryke) August 16, 2023
Harry's House is SO loved and it's 42 minutes and i've literally never seen anger over it being "too short" https://t.co/mujcxy4GuS
— sona (@swiftlydunphy) August 16, 2023
This is understandable as guts is just one song above sour. Not every artist has to have 22 tracks and 70 minute albums https://t.co/pAGJ5OJcxO
— Jem 🦄 (@livlafluvoo) August 15, 2023
y’all just like to hate because what is not normal about a album being 39 minutes long.. https://t.co/PIazR8QZ8m
— sara IZZY DAY 💋 (@souraIbum) August 16, 2023
Guts is set to release on September 8.
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