Olivia Rodrigo - Rebel Without a Clue (cover)

another cover of a song by 15-year-old olivia rodrigo!! this is one of my favorite songs by her, released or unreleased. it just sums up the struggles of teenage identity so well and i have never more related to a song. and honestly? it means so much to me, this song. probably one of my favorite songs at the moment.

this cover is full of clumsy runs and intonation issues + me fumbling with the chords because i can’t sing to save my life and that combined with me randomly trying new inversions just ‘cause i felt like changing it in the middle did not help!! hope it wasn’t terrible, though :) just a little time capsule of sorts for me to look back on…

also… haha i realized that all my issues (audio, showing my face) would be solved if i just plugged my phone into a mic and turned it landscape mode… welp, might re-record my cover of pretender…

speaking of pretender, you can find that video here:    • Olivia Rodrigo - Pretender (cover)  

here’s also pretender, but it might be better:    • Olivia Rodrigo - Pretender (Cover)  

update as of 2/3/2022... i'm currently listening to the song, and it just hit me like a slap in the face that she's not playing the Bb Major triad- there's definitely something else there... perhaps a Bb4? and i did say she wasn't playing the inversions, but maybe she was after all... i'll admit i didn't pay close attention when listening before, haha...

[Intro]
F Bb x2

[Verse 1]
F Bb
Sitting in my room
F Bb
What’s it all about
F Bb
Feels like the world is gonna end
F Bb
Before I figure her out
F Bb
Drink up my friend
F Bb
My potion of emotion
F Bb
Can you feel the love, the hate
F Bb
The jealousy, the sheer confusion

F Bb x2

[Chorus]
F A/E Dm F/C
Cause I don’t really know who I am
Bb D/A Gm C
Or how to present that to you
F A/E Dm F/C
I don’t really know just who I am
Bb Bbm Gm C
I’m a rebel without a clue (ooh, oh)

F Bb x2

[Verse 2]
F Bb
Let’s sit
F Bb
Watch the trains all derail
F Bb
They want me to learn
F Bb
Well, they can sit and watch me fail
F Bb
Are my friends changing
F Bb
Or is it in my mind
F Bb
Will I ever shake hands
F Bb
With time (mm)

[Chorus]
F A/E Dm F/C
‘Cause I don’t really know who I am
Bb D/A Gm C
Or how to present that to you
F A/E Dm F/C
I don’t really know just who I am
Bb Bbm Gm C
I’m a rebel without a clue (ooh, no)
F A/E Dm F/C
No I don’t really know who I am
Bb D/A Gm C
And now you want me to change
F A/E Dm F/C
I don’t really know what I am
Bb Bbm Gm C
Isn’t everything just so strange

[Outro]
F Bb
Sitting in my room
F Bb F
What’s it all about

just play every chord twice :)