Olivia Rodrigo is Being Wildly Underestimated In This Subreddit and Her Only Aoty Competition is Lux
I think a lot of people like to claim that Olivia Rodrigo isn’t gonna win anything as an unpopular opinion that has become pretty popular recently.
As much as I loved RAYE and Olivia Dean’s Albums, they are going to get a split vote from jazz voters, while Rodrigo is likely to get the entirety of the pop vote, as the other huge pop album release, Taylor Swift’s The Life of A Showgirl was largely disliked by critics.
I believe that the only other contender to beat Olivia Rodrigo is Rosalía’s Lux, which is loved by critics and will get the Latin voters.
It then becomes which album can get the other genre voters, and, with the stamp of approval from Robert Smith, I think Olivia Rodrigo will get a majority of the vote.
If we combine the huge popularity Rodrigo’s album had in pop culture and the critical success it received, it is THE front runner for album of the year with barely any other competition.