ballad of a homeschooled girl

“ballad of a homeschooled girl” is the fifth track from American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo 2023 “GUTS” album.

The garage-pop track sees Olivia dive into her the ups and downs of her adolescence and struggling with socialising and being awkward. Rodrigo had revealed that the song’s title was inspired by Bob Dylan’s iconic track “Ballad of a Thin Man” in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

In an interview with Interview Magazine, Rodrigo was interviewed by American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, and asked Rodrigo how being homeschooled affected her as a teenager:

” was home-schooled and all of this stuff happened in my career, but then I really boiled my problems down and I’m like, ‘Oh, they’re just 19-year-old, 20-year-old problems in a different environment.’ If you speak honestly about any experience, then someone is going to find truth in it.”

 

Read the lyrics to “ballad of a homeschooled girl” here.

*All information accurate at the time of publishing (25th March 2024).