Olivia O'Brien

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Olivia Gail O'Brien (born November 26, 1999 in California ) is an American singer and songwriter .

Private life

Olivia O'Brien was born in Thousand Oaks , California and moved to Napa a year later , where she attended a Montessori school. She started singing as a child and taught herself to play the piano and guitar by herself . Later she went to two Catholic schools where she suffered from bullying .

Musical career

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I Hate U, I Love U ( Gnash feat. Olivia O'Brien)
  DE 14th 
Triple gold
× 3
Triple gold
04/29/2016 (36 weeks)
  AT 9 
gold
gold
05/13/2016 (27 weeks)
  CH 15th 
platinum
platinum
05/01/2016 (41 weeks)
  UK 7th 
platinum
platinum
05/05/2016 (31 weeks)
  US 10 
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum
10/22/2016 (39 weeks)
Hate U Love U
  US 99 
gold
gold
01/14/2017 (1 week)
Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / without sources

During her high school -time in the 2010s invited Olivia O'Brien on the streaming platform SoundCloud music high, mostly cover versions of songs by other artists. She managed to attract millions of listeners there and become a popular star of the site. Her breakthrough in the mainstream came in 2016 with her first commercial single, the song I Hate U, I Love U , which she recorded once with the musician Gnash and once under the title Hate U Love U as a solo single. Both versions were able to place themselves on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA ; the variant in a duet was also an international success, which was able to position itself in the top ten in addition to the singer's home country in several other countries, including Austria and the United Kingdom . Several more singles and EPs followed ; however, there were no further chart placements. On April 26, 2019, her debut album Was It Even Real? .

Musical style

Olivia O'Brien's mostly self-written songs can almost always be assigned to pop music and are designed for catchy refrains , whereby an indie or alternative touch is often conveyed through the use of distinctive guitar riffs . In terms of content, their titles often revolve around topics such as being injured, a lack of or rediscovered self-esteem or relationship problems. What is striking is her often blunt language, which even in sad songs does not shy away from strong expressions and explicit descriptions (for example, in Josslyn's chorus, she sings that her boyfriend's lover performed oral sex on him ).

Discography

Albums

  • 2019: What It Even Real?

EPs

  • 2017: It's Not That Deep
  • 2019: It Was a Sad Fucking Summer
  • 2020: The Results of My Poor Judgment
  • 2020: Hope That It Was Worth It

Singles

  • 2016: I Hate U, I Love U (with Gnash )
  • 2016: Hate U Love U
  • 2017: Empty
  • 2017: RIP
  • 2018: Ringtone (with Diamond White )
  • 2018: Might Die Young (with Bobby Brackins and Tinashe )
  • 2018: I Don't Exist
  • 2018: Care Less More
  • 2019: Love Myself
  • 2019: Just a Boy
  • 2019: Fade Out (with SeeB and Space Primates )
  • 2020: Josslyn
  • 2020: Josslyn (with 24kGoldn )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ biography. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ AllMusic biography. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ biography. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ US chart positions. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ "I Hate U, I Love U" UK charts. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ "I Hate U, I Love U" charts. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ "Was It Even Real?" - Release date. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ lyrics. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien, Olivia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Brien, Olivia Gail (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH California