First, because there’s a direct relationship between how artists and songwriters make money in the streaming era and this wave of pushing for credits on songs. I wanted to have Charlie on Decoder to talk about all this for two reasons. In July, she gave Taylor Swift a writing credit on a track called “deja vu,” and just recently Paramore got a credit on “good 4 u.” A lot of people made comparisons to the band Paramore.Īnd then, Olivia started handing out writing credits. People have said she ripped off Elvis Costello, although Elvis Costello disagreed. Courtney Love got mad about the cover art. But then something strange started happening: a lot of people started talking about similarities between Sour and work from other, older artists.
Olivia, like any good, interesting young artist, has talked a lot about her influences as she’s promoted the album. Specifically, I wanted to understand why so many people keep coming for Olivia Rodrigo, an 18-year-old singer songwriter whose debut album Sour is one of the biggest hits of the year. I asked my friend Charlie Harding, one of the co-hosts, to come on Decoder and walk me through a particularly big change to the business of pop music that’s come about in the streaming era. Smoke Signals is well worth your time and offers a refreshing alternative to the big budget, special effects driven crap this summer.We are trying something a little different on this episode of Decoder - we’re doing a little crossover with one of my favorite podcasts, Switched on Pop, a show about how popular music is made. slowly they reveal more and more of themselves to us, in a way that is so nonchalant that we understand their feelings it without even noticing it. There is a feeling of ease and casualness in the conversations between Victor and Thomas. Smoke Signals is a great film and one that can teach you a lot about a culture so often misrepresented on the screen. The events that follow drastically alter Victor's perceptions of his father forever. Victor talks with her during the night and finds out how much his dad cared for him and how he never wanted to leave the reservation in the first place. They do eventually arrive in Phoenix and find the woman that called with the news of Arnold's death. In another funny sequence, the two begin talking about cowboys and end up singing a tune about John Wayne's teeth! Victor's resentment for his father is also revealed to us through flashbacks depicting the early years and the memories (some good, some bad) that the two shared. In one scene, Victor accuses Thomas of learning everything about being an Indian from watching Dances With Wolves. It's during their journey that we learn about the characters, Victor and Thomas' conversations reveal their attitudes towards Americans their views of Native Americans. This is a tough decision for Victor since he never really liked Thomas, but he finally agrees and the two set off on their journey. but Thomas does and offers to pay if he can come along with Victor. Unfortunately, he has no money to get there.
Victor, who had developed a resentment towards his father over the years, decides that he should travel to Phoenix to pick up his ashes. It's from a woman in Phoenix, she says that Arnold is dead.
Arnold eventually settles down in Phoenix and his family never hears from him again. A small infant named Thomas Builds-the-Fire is thrown out of the window of a burning house and is caught by Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), a neighbor with a drinking problem, who is later kicked out of the house by his wife, leaving behind his son, Victor (Adam Beach). The story opens on the Fourth of July, 1976 in a small Idaho Indian reservation. Finally, after 100 years of movies, we get a film that honestly portrays the Native American culture. The ones that shoot their arrows, wear feathers on their heads, and yell as they chase the heroes down. The eyes of cinema has always seen Indians only as the bad guys.