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POP GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO Geffen Records ***1/2 You have 20 years to write your first album, Elvis Costello famously said in 1981, and about six months to write your second. This task is a notoriously tough mental slog, and second albums don’t come much bigger than Guts, the wildly anticipated follow-up to Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 debut, Sour. It’s hard to think of another artist who arrived so suddenly, and so massively, as Rodrigo – who up until the release of her single, Drivers License, was known primarily as a Disney Channel star. The intimate, melancholy ballad cropped up online in early 2021, and within mere days Rodrigo found herself as...