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Chris Willman
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Interscope Geffen A&M The third time’s the third charm for Olivia Rodrigo, who is beginning to look like she might be constitutionally incapable of not turning in one of the year’s most diverting albums, in any given try. Not many artists have started off with as smashing a three-peat as Rodrigo and her producer/co-writer partner Dan Nigro, who’ve pulled it off again with “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.” But just what the “again” entails here involves some wrinkles, since the departures taken go far beyond just dispensing with one-word titles. After two terrific but roughly similar albums, “Sour” and “Guts,” their inevitable task was to stray a bit from signature sounds and firmly establish they intend to not be a one-trick pony. Even if the initial trick was pretty great.
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