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Young women are angry. They now have a soundtrack for that

Olivia, Sabrina, Billie and Charli are giving young women the words they have been searching for to express themselves.

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(Clockwise from top left) Female singers Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, and Billie Eilish.

(Clockwise from top left) Female singers Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish.

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There is a female equivalent of the question, “How many seconds does your car take to go from zero to 100km per hour?”

I discovered this last year, listening belatedly to Olivia Rodrigo’s ballad Drivers License for the first time and finding myself counting the seconds her voice took to go from a quiet whisper to a powerful crescendo.

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