There are a few things Olivia Rodrigo can't live without. From her top secret journal and GUTS rings to her Stanley travel cup and Maison Francis Kurkdjian Paris perfume, here are the pop singer's essentials.Olivia's sophomore album, GUTS, is out now.https://www.oliviarodrigo.com/Director: Arielle NeblettDirector of Photography: Francis BernalEditor: Phil CeconiProducer: Camille RamosLine Producer: Jen SantosAssociate Producer: Lea DonenbergProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Jamal Colvin; Tania JonesTalent Booker: Paige GarbariniCamera Operator: Anne-Marie HalovanicSound Mixer: Gabe QuirogaProduction Assistant: Sonia ButtPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00 Hey GQ, I'm Olivia Rodrigo, and these are my 10 essentials.
00:05 (upbeat music)
00:07 This isn't playing around,
00:11 this is like an industrial strength weighted blanket.
00:14 I think someone gave me one of these for Christmas one year.
00:17 Now I get everyone else this for Christmas
00:19 'cause it's like the best gift I've ever been given.
00:21 Some people hate it,
00:22 some people say it feels like suffocating,
00:24 but to me it's just the best type of suffocation, I love it.
00:28 Every time I get into a hotel bed,
00:30 I get in and I'm like, hmm, something's not right
00:33 because I'm missing this.
00:35 And it's actually very cumbersome to travel with,
00:37 so I sometimes just have to do without it.
00:39 I don't know how you'd put this in a little carry-on.
00:41 (laughs)
00:43 I feel so safe right now.
00:44 This is very important.
00:48 This is my actual journal.
00:50 It's kind of scary to have it out in the open here.
00:53 I'm so terrified of losing my journals,
00:55 that's my worst fear.
00:56 When I was kind of having trouble overcoming
00:58 lots of the pressure of making a sophomore record,
01:01 I read The Artist's Way and one of the big tenets
01:03 of The Artist's Way is doing your morning pages.
01:06 So it's like three pages, longhand,
01:09 stream of consciousness in the morning.
01:11 Like first thing you do when you wake up.
01:12 I think for me it's just nice to be able
01:14 to write something down and not judge it.
01:17 In the moment, I think that's the whole point
01:18 of doing the morning pages is just to be like,
01:20 this is stream of consciousness, what I'm feeling.
01:22 I'm not gonna judge it too harshly
01:24 or wonder if it's gonna make any money
01:26 or be criticized or whatever.
01:27 There's something really lovely about that.
01:29 I feel like I've been pretty diligently keeping
01:33 some sort of journal or diary since I was 13 years old.
01:37 And so I just have this rolodex of all of my feelings
01:40 for a long time and it's nice to kind of look back
01:42 at issues that I thought were gonna be world ending
01:45 and be like, oh, that worked out totally fine.
01:47 It made me who I am.
01:48 It kind of just puts things into perspective.
01:53 So these are the Guts rings.
01:55 Rings in general are a huge essential for me.
01:58 I don't go anywhere without these rings.
02:00 I feel very naked without them.
02:01 If I ever go on vacation or something and get tan,
02:04 I have like weird tan lines on my hands
02:06 'cause I refuse to take my rings off.
02:07 My producer's wife, Emily, actually made these.
02:09 She's an incredible jewelry designer.
02:10 I named the album Guts for many different reasons.
02:13 I love the word.
02:14 I think it has so many cool meanings.
02:17 It means intuition, it means courage.
02:20 Spilling your guts is just like telling all your secrets
02:23 to everyone, which I feel like is just very synonymous
02:25 with songwriting and it's just a cool four letter word.
02:28 I think it looks cool.
02:28 It's very evocative, I don't know.
02:30 They all are kind of sentimental to me.
02:32 This one, my producer Dan got for me for Christmas
02:36 and he's one of my closest friends.
02:37 And my parents got me this one for my 18th birthday
02:39 at some vintage store and I think it's really special.
02:41 This one, my makeup artist on High School Musical,
02:44 I was filming this show and I was really close with her
02:47 and she helped me through a lot.
02:49 And she got me this ring when we wrapped
02:51 and it says, "Write the songs of your heart."
02:54 And on the inside it says, "Love Heidi and Dottie June,"
02:57 which is her dog, her little French bulldog.
02:59 Actually left for the Grammys two years ago
03:03 and I forgot my rings at home and I had to freak out.
03:06 And luckily someone was still home
03:08 and I made them go to my house and get the rings
03:10 and bring them to me 'cause I was convinced
03:12 that it was gonna be a terrible night
03:12 if I didn't have my rings.
03:13 It was some weird thing.
03:15 [upbeat music]
03:17 I was actually TikTok influenced into buying this.
03:20 There's like a subculture on TikTok
03:22 that is just so obsessed with the Stanley Cup
03:24 and what you put in it and the flavored waters
03:26 and the soda concoctions.
03:28 And I was like, "I need this.
03:29 "This looks like it'll change my life."
03:31 And it completely did.
03:32 I've gotten actually so many of the people on my team
03:34 and so many of my friends on the Stanley grind with me.
03:38 I did live in Utah for a while
03:40 and Utah is the land of like specialty craft sodas.
03:44 This is like what they put the sodas in.
03:46 So it's like Diet Coke and like Coconut Creamer
03:50 and like Lemon Juice and like all of this fun stuff
03:54 to like doctor up your sodas.
03:56 I'm into that.
03:57 I'm very into that.
03:57 It's really fun.
03:58 [upbeat music]
04:01 The next item is Skinny Pop.
04:03 I consume so much Skinny Pop.
04:05 I inhale it like oxygen.
04:08 It is just my favorite snack.
04:10 There's one open bag of Skinny Pop
04:12 on my piano at all times, on my desk at all times,
04:16 and then in the kitchen at all times, open.
04:17 Like just ready for me to consume.
04:19 I truly, lots of days will eat like this entire thing.
04:24 [bag crinkling]
04:26 Oh, so good.
04:27 I will bring this into the movie theater
04:29 'cause it's so much better
04:30 than the movie theater popcorn to me.
04:31 I'll just sneak it into my bag.
04:33 Oh, well let's see what other flavors they have.
04:35 Cattle Corn, I've never tried that.
04:37 Popcorn Mini Cakes.
04:39 Wow, there's a whole Skinny Pop cinematic universe.
04:41 I need to try.
04:42 [upbeat music]
04:45 This is my favorite perfume.
04:47 It's the Baccarat Rouge 540.
04:51 So good.
04:54 I have a candle of it too that I burn in my house.
04:56 I never was super into perfume before I smelled this one
04:59 and I'm like this, this is the one for me.
05:01 'Cause I don't love like smelling like candy
05:03 or like flowers or something,
05:04 but this just smells like sort of like
05:06 you could maybe possibly just naturally smell this way
05:10 if you're like an angel or something.
05:12 It's like doesn't smell like any smell that I could place.
05:15 Lots of people say that like if they'll like smell this scent
05:17 and I'm like somewhere else, they'll think of me
05:19 and that's a very high compliment.
05:21 [upbeat music]
05:24 This is my family.
05:25 And they are definitely one of my 10 essentials.
05:30 I need them for everything.
05:31 My mom and my dad, I'm an only child.
05:33 And this is us at Rockefeller Center
05:35 during Christmas time last year.
05:37 Yeah, I love my family.
05:38 I wouldn't be anything without them, I adore them.
05:42 Going to New York this time was a really fun time.
05:46 I really love traveling with my parents.
05:48 I think it's so fun to get to go new places with them.
05:51 And I saw the Barbie movie the other day with my mom
05:53 and I was like wow, it's a transcendent experience.
05:55 This is my favorite book.
05:59 I think it's the only book that I've read more than once.
06:02 It's like the creative person's Bible.
06:05 I've made so many of my friends read it.
06:08 I like recommend it to everyone I know.
06:09 I just think it's so incredible.
06:11 It's all about like creativity and discipline
06:14 and the anxieties that come along with creativity
06:17 and how to remedy those.
06:18 And it's just, it's amazing.
06:20 Elizabeth, if you're out there,
06:22 changed my life with this one, it was so good.
06:24 I actually read this for the first time
06:26 while I was making Sour.
06:28 And I actually don't think that the album
06:31 would have turned out the way that it did
06:32 had I not read this book.
06:33 It was so instrumental in my creative journey.
06:37 I literally cannot leave the house without it.
06:41 Not being hyperbolic, I go everywhere with this.
06:44 I took Accutane for the first time this year.
06:47 I had bad teenager skin and my lips were so dry all the time.
06:52 And now I carry this with me everywhere I go
06:55 because it's just so chapstick,
06:57 put it on anything, put it on wounds.
06:59 The opportunities are endless with AquaPore.
07:02 I feel like all these items,
07:03 I'm just doing commercials for these brands.
07:05 These are guitar picks.
07:11 And I love playing guitar.
07:12 I love writing songs on guitar.
07:13 I'm slowly getting better.
07:15 Took some lessons this year, know a few songs.
07:19 I learned how to play guitar.
07:20 A lot of it was just by myself,
07:22 like learning songs I really love to play.
07:24 And when you're just learning how to play
07:26 like pop songs in your bedroom,
07:27 you just kind of do it intuitively
07:28 like with your fingertips.
07:31 But it always does sound better when you use a pick,
07:33 but sometimes it's just,
07:35 you just go back to what you did when you were 15.
07:38 My producer Dan is always trying to get me
07:39 to play with a pick 'cause he says it sounds better
07:41 and I agree with him.
07:42 So I'm trying, keeping these with me.
07:45 I think I'm definitely better at piano.
07:47 I'm more comfortable playing it,
07:48 which is why I think sometimes it's nice
07:50 to go out of your comfort zone
07:51 and play something on an instrument
07:52 you're not so familiar with.
07:53 So I've been playing a lot of guitar lately.
07:56 I wrote "Love is Embarrassing" on guitar.
07:59 Song "Lacey" was written on guitar.
08:01 There are a lot of guitar-based songs on this album.
08:04 Nice, beautiful finger plucky guitar.
08:07 And there's also some like really driving, hard hitting,
08:10 more punky guitar.
08:11 So I gotta get my practice in before tour.
08:14 Thanks GQ.
08:15 These were my 10 essentials.
08:17 I hope you enjoyed.
08:18 Check out my new album, "Guts",
08:21 if you haven't already.
08:22 Bye.
08:23 (upbeat music)