{"id":249211,"date":"2026-06-30T03:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/variety-declares-olivia-rodrigos-you-seem-pretty-sad-as-album-of-the-year-frontrunner\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:14:53","slug":"variety-declares-olivia-rodrigos-you-seem-pretty-sad-as-album-of-the-year-frontrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/variety-declares-olivia-rodrigos-you-seem-pretty-sad-as-album-of-the-year-frontrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Declares Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s you seem pretty sad&#8230; As Album of the Year Frontrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best Albums of 2026 (So Far): Olivia Rodrigo, &#8220;You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone seems to love Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s third album, with the record earning the closest thing to unanimity pop has seen in years. Co-producer Dan Nigro helps the heartbreaking ballads land\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NvRmhDTN7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5NvRmhDTN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2071631026049196152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Variety<\/i> writes, &#8220;But it all feels of a many-splendored piece, with co-producer\/writer Dan Nigro helping make the heartbreaking ballads land and the distinctly New Wave-flavored bops turn into the \u201980s-redolent earworms of your 2020s dreams. Perfection is elusive, but this Album of the Year frontrunner sure comes damned close \u2014 100% heartfelt, 100% crafty, 1000% irresistible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <i>you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love<\/i> spends a second week at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 180K sold (of that sum, 47,500 were pure album sales).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018You Seem Pretty Sad\u2019 Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pR6swI2o4a\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pR6swI2o4a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 billboard (@billboard) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboard\/status\/2071436026279551419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2071631026049196152?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboard\/status\/2071436026279551419?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132537599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Albums of 2026 (So Far): Olivia Rodrigo, &#8220;You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love&#8221; Everyone seems to love Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s third album, with the record earning the closest thing to unanimity pop has seen in years. Co-producer Dan Nigro helps the heartbreaking ballads land\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/5NvRmhDTN7 \u2014 Variety (@Variety) June 29, 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}