TIME SALUTES OLIVIA

Time magazine has named Olivia Rodrigo its 2021 Entertainer of the Year. Person of the Year and Heroes of the Year will be announced 12/13.

In her profile of the Geffen star, Lucy Feldman writes: “Rodrigo has a gift for picking the best of the past—whether a well-worn shirt, the faded feedback of a guitar or the intensity of first love—and finding just the right way to situate it in the present. Her songs have hit with audiences of all ages, in large part because she renders adolescence so viscerally: She’s resentful, seething, crushed, itching to just grow up already….Her rise to pop stardom was swift and definitive: It started on Jan. 8, when Rodrigo, already a Disney actor with an audience, released her first single, ‘drivers license,’ a torch song that took off on TikTok and stirred up theories about who inspired it. By Jan. 23, she became the youngest solo artist ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where her song stayed for eight weeks… Halsey sent Rodrigo a cake, Cardi B shouted her out on Twitter and Taylor Swift offered her props on Instagram.”

In related news, Simone Biles was named Athlete of the Year.