133-442: Sour (stylized in all caps ) is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Olivia Rodrigo . It was released on May 21, 2021, by Geffen Records . The album was written by Rodrigo and producer Dan Nigro . Originally planned as an EP , Sour was expanded into a full-length album following the viral success of her debut single, " Drivers License ". Influenced by Rodrigo's favorite genres and singer-songwriters, Sour
266-569: A DIY recording quality that exposes imperfections in Rodrigo's voice. Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian said Sour is polished "pop euphoria" that processes anger, jealousy and bewilderment, and is "one of the most gratifyingly undignified breakup albums ever made", but nevertheless, majority of it follows the style of "Drivers License", resulting in a lovely and thoughtful but unadventurous record. Stereogum 's Chris DeVille stated, though Rodrigo's lyrics "can come off desperate and immature" while
399-458: A Disney+ documentary , titled Sour Prom and Driving Home 2 U respectively, supplement the album. Rodrigo embarked on the Sour Tour , her first headlining concert tour, from April 5 to July 7, 2022. In 2023, it was ranked number 358 on Rolling Stone' s list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ". As of November 2024, it is the most-streamed album by a female artist on Spotify . In 2020,
532-444: A hotline phone number (323-622-SOUR) was made available, which teased an unreleased track from Sour . In the evening of May 20, 2021, Rodrigo appeared on YouTube's livestream of the official premiere party of Sour , as an episode for the platform's Released series. She played voice memos from her phone, discussed songs, interacted with fans, and exclusively performed the track "Enough for You". Rodrigo gave interviews and appeared on
665-530: A normalized score out of 100 to ratings from publications, the album received a mean score of 83 based on 20 reviews. Robin Murray of Clash hailed Sour as a "bravura" pop statement "marked by excellence from front to back". He described its 11 tracks as "potential smash hit singles", and complimented Rodrigo's bold lyricism, punchy execution, deeming her "pop's newest icon, and one of its bravest voices". The A.V. Club 's Tatiana Tenreyro designated Sour
798-514: A studio album instead of an EP, after she felt dissatisfied with the scope of a shorter project when only a full-length album would be "truly reflective of what [she] can do". Rodrigo had met with producer Dan Nigro in March 2020 a week before COVID-19 lockdowns commenced. Nigro was "blown away" after watching an Instagram video of Rodrigo playing her song " Happier ". Recording for Sour took place throughout 2020 and into early 2021. Nigro said that with
931-668: A "fool" is known by a few different names around the country, including "noodle", "gob", "gobby", or "noddy". One common prank is to carefully remove the cream from an Oreo , then replacing it with white toothpaste , and there are many similar pranks that replace an object (usually food) with another object that looks like the object but tastes different such as replacing sugar with salt or vanilla frosting with sour cream. As well as people playing pranks on one another on April Fools' Day, elaborate pranks have appeared on radio and television stations, newspapers, and websites, and have been performed by large corporations. In one famous prank in 1957,
1064-474: A Chart Double, at 18 years and 3 months old. She is the first artist since Sam Smith in 2015 to garner a Chart Double with a debut album. Sour also broke the all-time UK record for the most weekly streams for a debut album, overtaking Capaldi. The album received 45.7 million streams (30,945 album-equivalent units) in its opening week. When "Traitor" reached a new peak of number 5 on the UK Singles, Rodrigo became
1197-683: A commonly preferred alternative to all caps text is the use of small caps to emphasise key names or acronyms (for example, Text in Small Caps ), or the use of italics or (more rarely) bold . In addition, if all caps must be used it is customary to slightly widen the spacing between the letters, by around 10 per cent of the point height. This practice is known as tracking or letterspacing. Some digital fonts contain alternative spacing metrics for this purpose. Messages completely in capital letters are often equated on social media to shouting and other impolite or argumentative behaviors. This became
1330-483: A computer program shouting at its user. Information technology journalist Lee Hutchinson described Microsoft's using the practice as "LITERALLY TERRIBLE ... [it] doesn't so much violate OS X's design conventions as it does take them out behind the shed, pour gasoline on them, and set them on fire." In programming, writing in all caps (possibly with underscores replacing spaces ) is an identifier naming convention in many programming languages that symbolizes that
1463-753: A contender for best pop album of 2021, and highlighted its lack of filler tracks. She stated each song depicts a different side to Rodrigo's artistry, embracing influences while still creating "something fresh". Kate Solomon, writing for i , called Sour a "surprisingly accomplished package" and a "stunning portrait of adolescence". NME critic Rhian Daly called Rodrigo a "multidimensional" artist writing detailed songs that "go full-circle from being precisely personal to universally relatable". Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph opined Sour excels in modern production, striking an acoustic-electronic balance by combining Taylor Swift's traditional songcraft, Lorde 's harmonies, and Billie Eilish 's whispery vocals with
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#17328548096561596-495: A delicate scanning of characters (from a damaged image that needs further contextual text correction). Depending on the typeface , these similarities accidentally create various duplicates (even quite briefly and without realizing it when reading). E.g. H/A, F/E or I/T by adding a bar; P/R, O/Q, even C/G from similar errors; V/U, D/O, even B/S while rounding the shape; and more deformations implying mixings. Adding digits in all caps styled texts may multiply these confusions, which
1729-571: A female artist on the platform, beating the former record set by Ariana Grande 's Thank U, Next (2019). The album also surpassed the first-week streams of rapper Pop Smoke 's posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (2020), which accumulated 225 million; Sour surpassed it by 160 margins more. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reported that Rodrigo
1862-430: A female artist so far, and second overall, behind Dangerous: The Double Album . As of July 2021, Sour was the seventh best-selling album of the year, with 146,000 copies sold, and fifth amongst albums by women. Sour reached 378,000 sales by October 2021, becoming the third best-selling album of 2021, only behind Evermore and Fearless (Taylor's Version) . By January 2022, the album had sold 557,000 physical copies in
1995-510: A first-page article but not the top headline. In Poland, prima Aprilis ("First April" in Latin ) as a day of pranks is a centuries-long tradition. It is a day when many pranks are played: sometimes very sophisticated hoaxes are prepared by people, media (which often cooperate to make the "information" more credible), and even public institutions. Serious activities are usually avoided; every word said on 1 April could be untrue. The conviction for this
2128-454: A follow-up single by archiving her past Instagram posts and posting cryptic teasers of it on her social media accounts in late March 2021; on March 29, she announced that it would be titled " Deja Vu ", and set a release date of three days later, reassuring fans that the announcement was not an April Fools' Day joke. Rodrigo unveiled the song's artwork in the same post. Following her rise to prominence, Rodrigo stated that she would be releasing
2261-421: A hoax include: Books, films, telemovies and television episodes have used April Fools' Day as their title or inspiration. Examples include Bryce Courtenay 's novel April Fool's Day (1993), whose title refers to the day Courtenay's son died. The 1990s sitcom Roseanne featured an episode titled "April Fools' Day". This turned out to be intentionally misleading, as the episode was instead about Tax Day in
2394-462: A limo, on a prom dancefloor, in a darkroom, and accompanied by a marching band on a football field." She also hosted a "pre-party" Q&A segment in which she answered questions on the album's creation. She then performed several live renditions of her Sour tracks, including "Drivers License" and "Good 4 U". The film was described as "the ultimate alternative prom experience", after Rodrigo herself graduated high school recently. The concert film later
2527-399: A mainstream interpretation with the advent of networked computers, from the 1980s onward. However, a similar interpretation was already evidenced by written sources that predated the computing era, in some cases by at least a century, and the textual display of shouting or emphasis was still not a settled matter by 1984. The following sources may be relevant to the history of all caps: Before
2660-597: A meeting to get to know one another, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States. They started collaborating after figuring out ways to work safely in isolation. She released her debut single " Drivers License ", produced by Nigro, on January 8, 2021, to unprecedented commercial and critical success. Billboard declared the single one of the most dominant number-one songs in Hot 100 history. Rodrigo began teasing
2793-480: A number one album under the imprint was Mary J. Blige , whose eighth studio album, Growing Pains (2007), made the top position in early 2008. At the time, the 295,000 sum marked the biggest opening week for any album in 2021. Sour further garnered the second-biggest streaming week for an album by a female artist in the US with 300.73 million on-demand streams, behind Ariana Grande 's Thank U, Next (307.07 million), and
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#17328548096562926-463: A single, "Traitor" landed at number 9 on the Hot 100 upon the album release, charting alongside "Good 4 U" and "Deja Vu" in the top 10 region. Billboard remarked how "Traitor" registered impressive sales and streaming tallies for an album track. "Brutal" received a music video on August 23, 2021, before it impacted Italian contemporary hit radio formats through Universal Music Italy on September 3, 2021, as
3059-532: A slowed speed is possible – but in principle too many factors of low legibility are involved." Other critics are of the opinion that all caps letters in text are often "too tightly packed against each other". Besides the aforementioned speed of reading, all caps is can be prone to character -based ambiguities. Namely, the upper-case letters are globally simpler than their lower-case counterpart. For example, they lack ascenders and descenders . Since they are built from fewer positional and building elements (e.g.
3192-416: A smaller grid pertaining to minimalist digital fonts), they are more fragile to small changes. These variations, generally involuntary but sometimes induced on purpose, are caused by a misinterpretation (the information is transferred) or by a deterioration (the data is lost, in the analysis wording). They can occur horizontally and/or vertically, while misreading (without this extra effort or time), or during
3325-623: A specific moment of her life as a 17-year-old, "its unending growing pains and surprising discoveries." She insisted this point in her interview to The Guardian as well, saying Sour is an "intrinsically young" album that is aimed at honoring "acute teenage feelings". Rodrigo explained, "something I'm really proud of is that this record talks about emotions that are hard to talk about or aren't really socially acceptable especially for girls: anger, jealousy, spite, sadness, they're frowned-upon as bitchy and moaning and complaining or whatever. But I think they're such valid emotions." According to Rodrigo,
3458-893: A subtle reference to a fish is sometimes given as a clue to the fact that it is an April Fools' prank. Boulangeries, pâtisseries and chocolatiers in France sell chocolate fishes in their shop windows on the day. In Lebanon , an April Fool prank is revealed by saying كذبة أول نيسان (which translates to "First of April Lie") to the recipient. Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes celebrate April Fools' Day ( aprilsnar in Danish; aprillipäivä in Finnish; aprilsnarr in Norwegian; aprilskämt in Swedish). Most news media outlets will publish exactly one false story on 1 April; for newspapers this will typically be
3591-663: A term is conspicuous, we look at more than formatting. A term that appears in capitals can still be inconspicuous if it is hidden on the back of a contract in small type. Terms that are in capitals but also appear in hard-to-read type may flunk the conspicuousness test. A sentence in capitals, buried deep within a long paragraph in capitals will probably not be deemed conspicuous...it is entirely possible for text to be conspicuous without being in capitals. Certain musicians—such as Marina , Finneas , who are both known mononymously, and MF DOOM —as well as some bands such as Haim and Kiss —have their names stylised in all caps. Additionally, it
3724-474: A total of five weeks at the spot, becoming the longest reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2021. The album rescinded J. Cole 's sixth studio album, The Off-Season (2021) from the chart's number one slot. Sour was also the first album by a Geffen recording artist and female Geffen artist in nearly 13 years overall to have debuted at number one on the Billboard 200; the previous female singer to have
3857-440: A vain cock, Chauntecleer, is tricked by a fox "Since March began, full thirty days and two," i.e. 32 days since March began, which is 1 April. However, it is not clear that Chaucer was referencing 1 April since the text of the "Nun's Priest's Tale" also states that the story takes place on the day when the sun is "in the sign of Taurus had y-rune Twenty degrees and one," which would not be 1 April. Modern scholars believe that there
3990-490: A variety of costumes and walk around the city fooling around and pranking passersby. One of the traditions on April Fools' Day is to dress up the main city monument in funny clothes. Humorina even has its own logo—a cheerful sailor in a lifebelt —whose author was the artist Arkady Tsykun. During the festival, special souvenirs bearing the logo are printed and sold. Since 2010, April Fools' Day celebrations include an International Clown Festival, and both celebrated as one. In 2019,
4123-821: A wider audience than ever before. 28 December, the equivalent day in Spain and Hispanic America , is also the Christian day of celebration of the Day of the Holy Innocents . The Christian celebration is a religious holiday in its own right, but the tradition of pranks is not, though the latter is observed yearly. In some regions of Hispanic America after a prank is played, the cry is made, " Inocente palomita que te dejaste engañar " ("You innocent little dove that let yourself be fooled!"; not to be confused with another meaning of palomita , which means " popcorn " in some dialects). In Argentina,
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4256-541: Is "unapologetically and enthusiastically her own guide". In July 2022, the publication ranked Sour as the 39th best debut album of all time. Furthermore, the publication ranked the album as the 358th best of all time in their 2023 ranking. Variety 's Chris Williman called Sour "ridiculously good", and "unabashedly teenage" atypical of most teen singers who often try to mimick adult music. Praising Rodrigo's musical vision and Nigro's production, Rachel Saywitz, reviewing for The Line of Best Fit , said Sour swerves
4389-419: Is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, " Syn March was gon ". If so, the passage would have originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May. In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d'avril (April fool, literally "April's fish"), possibly the first reference to the celebration in France. Some historians suggest that April Fools' originated because, in
4522-493: Is again the dominant color, but stickers are not present. Stickers also recur through the album artwork and promotional material, which followed a theme of scrapbooking in a school notebook. Sour was supported by five singles, four of which charted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 . "Drivers License", Rodrigo's debut single, was released on January 8, 2021, as the lead single of Sour . An accompanying music video for
4655-403: Is an "apparent consensus" that lower-case text is more legible, but that some editors continue to use all caps in text regardless. In his studies of all caps in headlines , he states that, "Editors who favor capitals claim that they give greater emphasis. Those who prefer lower case claim their preferences gives greater legibility." Wheildon, who informs us that "When a person reads a line of type,
4788-442: Is characterized by self-aware themes of insecurities, anger, revenge, envy, and jealousy, using detail-specific lyrics exuding vulnerability. Sour opens with "Brutal", which Rodrigo described as "angsty" and "uptempo". Music critics characterize the track as an enjoyable, "angrily insecure alt-rock tirade" and "playful and easy pop-punk " that "free falls into the depths of grungy rock ", with elements of indie rock . "Brutal"
4921-615: Is common for bands with vowelless names (a process colourfully known as " disemvoweling ") to use all caps, with prominent examples including STRFKR , MSTRKRFT , PWR BTTM , SBTRKT , JPNSGRLS (now known as Hotel Mira), BLK JKS , MNDR , and DWNTWN . Miles Tinker , renowned for his landmark work, Legibility of Print , performed scientific studies on the legibility and readability of all-capital print. His findings were as follows: All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. Also, most readers judge all capitals to be less legible. Faster reading of
5054-443: Is controversial. The mixed opinions of critics are epitomized in the reception to the 1957 BBC " spaghetti-tree hoax ", in reference to which newspapers were split over whether it was "a great joke or a terrible hoax on the public". April Fools' can be good for one's health because it encourages "jokes, hoaxes ... pranks, [and] belly laughs", and brings all the benefits of laughter. Many "best of" April Fools' Day lists showcase
5187-435: Is less legible and readable than lower-case text. In addition, switching to all caps may make text appear hectoring and obnoxious for cultural reasons, since all-capitals is often used in transcribed speech to indicate that the speaker is shouting. All-caps text is common in comic books, as well as on older teleprinter and radio transmission systems, which often do not indicate letter case at all. In professional documents,
5320-546: Is often known as "April fish" ( poisson d'avril in French, aprilvis in Dutch or pesce d'aprile in Italian). Possible pranks include attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. This fish feature is prominently present on many late 19th- to early 20th-century French April Fools' Day postcards . Many newspapers also spread a false story on April Fish Day, and
5453-430: Is one aim of Leet (intentional pseudo duplicates) and can provide simple means of concealing messages (often numbers). April Fools%27 Day April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes . Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such
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5586-398: Is primarily a pop record that spans from energetic pop-punk songs to bedroom pop ballads. Its subject matter centers on adolescence, failed romance, and heartache. She said the album explores her perils and discoveries as a 17-year-old, with its title referring to the "sour" emotions young people experience, but are often criticized for, including anger, jealousy, and unhappiness. Sour
5719-511: Is risk that it will be misinterpreted as a joke and ignored – for example, when Google , known to play elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes, announced the launch of Gmail with 1- gigabyte inboxes in 2004, an era when competing webmail services offered 4- megabytes or less, many dismissed it as a joke outright. On the other hand, sometimes stories intended as jokes are taken seriously. Either way, there can be adverse effects, such as confusion, misinformation, waste of resources (especially when
5852-558: Is so strong that the Polish anti-Turkish alliance with Leopold I , signed on 1 April 1683, was backdated to 31 March. However, for some in Poland prima April ends at noon of 1 April and prima April jokes after that hour are considered inappropriate and not classy. In many Spanish-speaking countries (and the Philippines), " Día de los Santos Inocentes " ( Holy Innocents Day ) is a festivity that
5985-550: Is sometimes later revealed by shouting "April, April!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool". In Iran, it is called " Dorugh-e Sizdah " (lie of Thirteen) and people and media prank on 13 Farvardin ( Sizdah bedar ) that is equivalent of 1 April. It is a tradition that takes place 13 days after the Persian new year Nowruz . On this day, people go out and leave their houses and have fun outside mostly in natural parks. Pranks have reportedly been played on this holiday since 536 BC in
6118-603: Is very similar to April Fools' Day, but is celebrated in late December (27, 28 or 29 depending on the location). Despite this, in Galicia April Fools' Day is also traditional, as accounted by Ramón Otero Pedrayo , as " Día dos enganos ", and the tradition is embedded in a traditional saying about this day being the day when donkeys go where they must not go . Turkey also has a custom of April Fools' pranks. Pranks and jokes are usually verbal and are revealed by shouting "Bir Nisan! / Nisan Bir!" (1 April!). April Fools' Day
6251-570: Is widely celebrated in Odesa and has the special local name Humorina (in Ukrainian Гуморина, Humorina ) . This holiday arose in 1973. An April Fool prank is revealed by saying "Перше квітня — брехня всесвітня" (" Pershe kvitnya — brekhnya vsesvitnya " , translating as "First of April — worldwide lies") to the recipient. The festival includes a large parade in the city centre, free concerts, street fairs and performances. Festival participants dress up in
6384-676: The Billboard Canadian Albums chart. All of its tracks debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 simultaneously, led by "Good 4 U" atop the chart. Sour spent four consecutive weeks atop the chart. In Australia, Rodrigo achieved a "Chart Double", where she topped both the ARIA Albums and Singles charts— Sour debuted at number 1 on the former, whereas "Good 4 U" ascended to number one on the latter. The other singles "Drivers License" and "Deja Vu" rebounded to numbers 3 and 4, respectively, while
6517-557: The ASCII table , so can display both alphabets, but all caps only. Mikrosha is switchable to KOI-7N1, in this mode, it can display both caps and lower-case, but in Cyrillic only. Other Soviet computers, such as BK0010 , MK 85 , Corvette and Agat-9 , use 8-bit encoding called KOI-8R, they can display both Cyrillic and Latin in caps and lower-case. Many, but not all NES games use all caps because of tile graphics, where charset and tiles share
6650-463: The Achaemenid Empire . In Ireland, it was traditional to entrust the victim with an "important letter" to be given to a named person. That person would read the letter, then ask the victim to take it to someone else, and so on. The letter when opened contained the words "send the fool further". In Italy, France, Belgium and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, the 1 April tradition
6783-590: The BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss spaghetti harvest . The BBC was soon flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day. With the advent of the Internet and readily available global news services, April Fools' pranks can catch and embarrass
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#17328548096566916-528: The Genesis flood narrative . In a 1908 edition of the Harper's Weekly , cartoonist Bertha R. McDonald wrote: Some authorities gravely go back with it to the time of Noah and the ark . The London Public Advertiser of March 13, 1769, prints the following paragraph concerning this theory: "The mistake of Noah sending the dove out of the ark before the water had abated, on the first day of April, and to perpetuate
7049-823: The New Zealand Albums Chart , Sour arrived at number one, aside five of its songs reaching the top 10 of the New Zealand Singles Chart ; "Good 4 U", "Deja Vu", "Traitor", "Drivers License", and "Brutal" charted at numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8, respectively. Sour spent ten consecutive weeks at number one, and is the only album by a female artist other than Adele's 21 to do so. All caps In typography , text or font in all caps (short for " all capitals ") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements , newspaper headlines , and
7182-588: The UK Albums Chart with 51,000 units, eclipsing Foo Fighters ' Medicine at Midnight for the biggest opening-week for an album in 2021 at the time. It also marked the biggest opening week for a debut album since Lewis Capaldi 's Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (2019). With "Good 4 U" rising to the top spot of the UK Singles Chart concurrently, Rodrigo became the youngest soloist in UK history to achieve
7315-577: The "Day of the Innocent Children" or "Day of the Stupid Children". It used to be a day where parents, grandparents, and teachers would fool the children in some way. But the celebration of this day has died out in favour of April Fools' Day. Nevertheless, on the Spanish island of Menorca , Dia d'enganyar ("Fooling day") is celebrated on 1 April because Menorca was a British possession during part of
7448-460: The "pouty", "angsty" sound of rock acts No Doubt and the White Stripes . She also cited her mother's musical tastes as an influence, as she introduced a young Rodrigo to metal , punk , and 1990s alternative rock. I want [ Sour ] to be super versatile. My dream is to have it be an intersection between mainstream pop, folk music, and alternative pop. I love the songwriting and the lyricism and
7581-477: The 18th century. In Brazil, the " Dia da mentira " ("Day of the lie") is also celebrated on 1 April due to the Portuguese influence. In many English-speaking countries, mainly Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, it is a custom to say "pinch and a punch for the first of the month" or an alternative, typically by children. The victim might respond with "a flick and a kick for being so quick", and
7714-568: The 1990s, more than three-quarters of newspapers in the western world used lower-case letters in headline text. Discussion regarding the use of all caps for headlines centers on the greater emphasis offered by all caps versus the greater legibility offered by lower-case letters. Colin Wheildon conducted a scientific study with 224 readers who analyzed various headline styles and concluded that "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." All caps typography
7847-452: The 5 and 10-minute time limits, and 13.9 percent for the whole 20-minute period". Tinker concluded that, "Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case." Tinker provides the following explanations for why all capital printing is more difficult to read: Text in all capitals covers about 35 percent more printing surface than the same material set in lower case. This would tend to increase
7980-472: The American actress and singer Olivia Rodrigo signed to Geffen Records , intending to release her debut EP the following year. After a friend of Rodrigo and producer Dan Nigro suggested Nigro listen to Rodrigo's songs on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Soundtrack (2020), he was "just completely blown away" and reached out to Rodrigo via Instagram , offering to work with her. The pair had
8113-495: The Hot 100, making Rodrigo the first artist in history to debut her first two singles in the top 10 of the chart. It reached a new peak of number three after the release of Sour . The third single, "Good 4 U", was announced on May 10, 2021, and released on May 14. Its music video, directed by Petra Collins, features Rodrigo as a revengeful cheerleader, making references to the 2000s' cult classic films Princess Diaries and Jennifer's Body . The energetic song provided listeners
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#17328548096568246-527: The Kills " with a "plucky bassline and a prowling piano build". Lyrics talk about the toxicity of social media and its addictiveness, displaying the obsessions of living a perfect life. The stripped-down tenth track, " Favorite Crime ", an indie pop and folk-pop song that incorporates a set of layered harmonies with a "thinly veiled Bonnie and Clyde -type metaphor". It speaks about "on the examination of glaring red flags that only appear in their true colors through
8379-466: The Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on 25 March in most European towns, with a holiday that in some areas of France, specifically, ended on 1 April, and those who celebrated New Year's Eve on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates by the invention of April Fools' Day. The use of 1 January as New Year's Day became common in France only in the mid-16th century, and that date
8512-520: The United States and was certified quadruple platinum in June 2023, for streams and sales equaling four million units. Sour is the longest-running debut album in the Billboard 200 chart's top 10 during the 21st century, recording its 52nd week in the top 10 on the chart dated July 2, 2022, and surpassing the 51-week tally of Lady Gaga's debut album, The Fame . In the United Kingdom, Sour landed atop
8645-409: The United States, occurring on 15 April. The 19th episode of the first season of SpongeBob SquarePants , "Fools In April", also centers around a plot that takes place on April Fools' Day. Every year on 1 April, video game developer Mojang releases an April Fool's Day snapshot (an altered version of the game) for Minecraft: Java Edition (a version of Minecraft available on computers). Over
8778-623: The album "flawless Gen Z pop" that ranges from crisp 1990s rock to acoustic balladry, and "the most self-aware pop record in recent memory". Entertainment Weekly ' s Maura Johnston felt Sour 's heaviness is bettered by Rodrigo's grace and self-awareness, and that she is not trying to be "the next" anyone, but instead distills her life and musical tastes into promising, "powerful, hooky pop". Rolling Stone critic Angie Martoccio said, beyond her idols and inspirations, Rodrigo forged "a path into an entirely new realm of pop" in Sour , where she
8911-417: The album spans from energetic 1990s-inspired guitar rock to tender acoustic balladry driven by piano and fingerpicked guitars. Craig Jenkins of Vulture categorized Sour as a "post-genre" record, one which materializes Rodrigo's aim to transcend boundaries of music genres and coalesce them. The songs of Sour represent different perspectives to a single storyline of failed romance. The songwriting
9044-502: The album title. PopSugar observed that Rodrigo is also wearing a ring in the cover artwork, identical to a ring that Taylor Swift had gifted her earlier. The backside cover also has a purple background, featuring scattered stickers as well as the tracklist on a pearly-colored balloon that Rodrigo's hand is about to pop with a safety pin. In the alternative cover available for the Target-exclusive and vinyl editions of Sour , purple
9177-415: The album's pace can be a "wearisome slog" at times, Sour works by weaponizing its drawbacks. Regarding the album "a youthful tour through heartbreak angst" that weakens only when it "plays too safe", DIY 's Jenessa Williams felt Rodrigo's "truly soars" when she heads strong, rather than victimizing herself in "bitterness". Numerous critics and publications listed Sour in their year-end ranking of
9310-599: The attacker might reply with "a punch in the eye for being so sly". Another custom in Britain and North America is to say " rabbit rabbit " upon waking on the first day of a month, for good luck. Similar events documented by other Misplaced Pages languages also exist such as Poisson d'avril (France) and in the US the International day of the joke event which is assigned the first Sunday in May. The practice of April Fool pranks and hoaxes
9443-429: The beginning of the track were a result of Nigro recording them through a window at his house. "Enough for You", the seventh track, is a "simple" and "minimal" bedroom pop song with "searing" lyrics and acoustic instrumentals. Rodrigo described the song as "very insecure and vulnerable, but [she] also love[s] how it's really hopeful", referencing the line "someday I'll be everything to somebody else". " Happier " serves as
9576-521: The best albums of 2021, often inside the top-ten. In 2023, Sour was included in Rolling Stone 's “ The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ” list. Sour was the most pre-added album on Apple Music during the week leading up to its release (May 14, 2021 to May 20, 2021), dethroning Billie Eilish 's Happier Than Ever (2021). Upon release, Sour garnered 385 million streams in its first week on global Spotify —the biggest opening week for an album by
9709-418: The best examples of how the day is celebrated. Various April Fools' campaigns have been praised for their innovation, creativity, writing, and general effort. Negative views describe April Fools' hoaxes as "creepy and manipulative", "rude" and "a little bit nasty", as well as based on Schadenfreude and deceit. When genuine news or a genuinely important order or warning is issued on April Fools' Day, there
9842-438: The biggest streaming week ever for a debut album by a female artist, surpassing Cardi B 's Invasion of Privacy (2018). Sour charted at number two in its second week earning 186,000 units and remained at the same spot in its third week with 143,000 units. The album jumped back to the Billboard 200 number-one spot thrice in its chart run: The first instance was when it moved 105,000 units in its fifth charting week, becoming
9975-420: The brashness of Alanis Morissette and Avril Lavigne . Also touching on these comparisons, fellow critic Robert Christgau said Rodrigo "recalls her hero Taylor more than her West Coast homegirl Billie with bravely retro pre-track-and-hook structures and lyrics that map out the kind of emotional grounding all parents pray their kids achieve, the female ones especially". Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times dubbed
10108-567: The chart's summit for the third time following its vinyl release, which generated 133,000 units. Of that sum, 76,000 were vinyl LPs, scoring the second-largest vinyl album sales week in MRC Data history, placing behind Swift's Evermore (2020). All 11 of Sour 's tracks appeared in the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 5, 2021. Rodrigo is the first female artist, and the fourth act overall, to simultaneously chart 11 or more songs in
10241-406: The chart's top 30. Three songs charted in the top 10: "Good 4 U" at number two, down from number one the previous week, "Deja Vu" reaching a new peak of number three, and "Traitor" entering at number nine, making her the first artist in Hot 100 history to have three songs from their debut album to chart simultaneously in the top 10; "Traitor" marked the album's fourth top-10 song and fourth to debut in
10374-533: The chart. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . The single also topped charts in the UK, Canada, Australia, and many more countries. "Deja Vu" was announced as the second single on her social media accounts on March 29, 2021, and was released three days later along with its music video, directed by Allie Avital in Malibu . The song debuted at number eight on
10507-456: The conventional genres to work Rodrigo's wide taste. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called it a "nuanced and often exceptional debut album", traversing Rodrigo's evolving perspectives real-time. The Independent critic Helen Brown thought Sour converts 21st-century adolescence into resonating "story-songs", and admired Rodrigo's "disarming honesty", using F-bombs unlike former teen stars who "don't usually do that until they're onto
10640-564: The country, surpassing J. Cole 's The Off-Season (2021). Sour garnered the biggest opening-week of streams for a debut album in history, surpassing Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). Rodrigo achieved a chart-double in Ireland, as "Good 4 U" held on to its number-one spot on the Irish Singles Chart for a second consecutive week. "Deja Vu" rose to a new peak of number 2, while "Traitor" entered at number 3, marking
10773-742: The creation process of the album was featured in IMAX screenings of In the Heights (2021) on Mother's Day . On May 11, Rodrigo performed "Drivers License" at the 2021 Brit Awards held on The O2 Arena in London. On May 12, 2021, a trailer to Sour was posted to Rodrigo's YouTube channel, which showed studio clips of herself and Nigro, and featured a snippet of "Good 4 U" which was set to release two days later. She performed "Drivers License" and debuted "Good 4 U" live at Saturday Night Live on May 15, 2021, hosted by American actor Keegan-Michael Key . On May 16, 2021,
10906-419: The cuckoo". The traditional prank is to ask someone to deliver a sealed message that supposedly requests help of some sort. In fact, the message reads " Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile. " The recipient, upon reading it, will explain they can only help if they first contact another person, and they send the victim to this next person with an identical message, with the same result. In England
11039-411: The development of lower-case letters in the 8th century, texts in the Latin alphabet were written in a single case, which is now considered to be capital letters. Text in all caps is not widely used in body copy . The main exception to this is the so-called fine print in legal documents. Capital letters have been widely used in printed headlines from the early days of newspapers until the 1950s. In
11172-477: The eighth track, a piano-led song featuring lyrics admitting selfishness and exuding self-criticism . Being angry, jealous, overly emotional or sad can often be framed as being bitchy or moany. I decided to shine a light on those feelings, even though that was uncomfortable to talk about. I've done all I can do. Everything else is out of my hands. The ninth track, "Jealousy, Jealousy", has been described as " jazzy ", "serpentine", and an " alt-rock squall à la
11305-534: The evidence that all-capital printing retards speed of reading to a striking degree in comparison with lower case and is not liked by readers, it would seem wise to eliminate such printing whenever rapid reading and consumer (reader) views are of importance. Examples of this would include any continuous reading material, posters, bus cards, billboards, magazine advertising copy, headings in books, business forms and records, titles of articles, books and book chapters, and newspaper headlines. Colin Wheildon stated that there
11438-534: The eye recognizes letters by the shapes of their upper halves", asserts that recognizing words in all caps "becomes a task instead of a natural process". His conclusions, based on scientific testing in 1982–1990, are: "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." John Ryder , in the Case for Legibility , stated that "Printing with capital letters can be done sufficiently well to arouse interest and, with short lines, reading at
11571-484: The festival was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Odesa Film Studio and all events were held with an emphasis on cinema. In the UK, an April Fool prank is sometimes later revealed by shouting "April fool!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool". A study in the 1950s, by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie , found that in the UK, and in countries whose traditions derived from the UK, this continues to be
11704-498: The fifth single from the album. Before becoming a single, the song arrived at number 12 on the Hot 100, and landed atop the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. Rodrigo gave the debut performance of "Drivers License" on February 4, 2021, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . She has expressed excitement for a potential upcoming tour in support of the album after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. A sneak-peek of
11837-479: The first female artist in history to occupy three spots in the top 5 simultaneously, with "Deja Vu" at number 4, and "Good 4 U" spending a third consecutive week at the top. Sour spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the chart. By the end of the year, Sour spent a total of 32 weeks inside of the Top 20. Sour was the UK's most streamed album of 2021 with 83% of its year-end sum of 395,000 units being on-demand streams. It
11970-461: The first time a female artist occupied all the top 3 spots of the singles chart in the same week. Sour spent its first seven weeks atop the Irish Albums Chart, claiming the longest consecutive reign at number one by an album by a female artist since Adele 's 21 (2011). It was the best-selling album of the first half of 2021 in Ireland, and spent 20 non-consecutive weeks at number one. On
12103-468: The following day. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbour has been relatively common in the world historically. Although many theories have been proposed, the exact origin of April Fools' Day is not exactly known. A disputed association between 1 April and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales (1392). In the " Nun's Priest's Tale ",
12236-434: The form of clothing was also released, although some customers alleged it as being low quality and "nothing like what was advertised". Photographed by Grant Spanier, the standard cover artwork of Sour depicts Rodrigo standing against a purple backdrop, wearing a fuzzy pale pink tank top and checkered bottoms. She sticks her tongue out, with her face covered in a variety of colorful stickers. The stickers on her tongue spell
12369-563: The given identifier represents a constant . A practice exists (most commonly in Francophone countries) of distinguishing the surname from the rest of a personal name by stylizing the surname only in all caps. This practice is also common among Japanese, when names are spelled using Roman letters. In April 2013, the U.S. Navy moved away from an all caps-based messaging system, which was begun with 1850s-era teleprinters that had only uppercase letters. The switch to mixed-case communications
12502-489: The guitar riff on "Brutal" as "scary in the manner of Clinton -era Nine Inch Nails ". " Traitor ", the second track, is an indie pop ballad with a folk instrumental. Its lyrics have been described to consist of "post-grief anger and bargaining". Furthermore, details on the lyrics also depict Rodrigo's ex moving on with another girl while she is unable to get over it as she tries to figure out what went wrong. The fourth track, " 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back ", interpolates
12635-445: The hoax concerns people in danger) and even legal or commercial consequences. In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , various organizations and people warned not to observing April Fools' Day, as a mark of respect due to the large amount of tragic deaths that COVID-19 had caused up to that point, the wish to provide truthful information to counter any misinformation about the virus, and to pre-empt any attempts to incorporate
12768-574: The idea, to preserve her authenticity as a songwriter. She asserted that love and happiness were not the emotions she felt while making the album. Nevertheless, Rodrigo did not want Sour to be filled with "sad piano songs" either, hence she infused danceability and upbeat arrangements into the record, evident in tracks such as " Brutal " and " Good 4 U ". Sour has been described as a genre-hopping pop , pop-punk , alternative pop , and bedroom pop record with synth-pop , dream pop , alternative rock , pop rock , and folk-pop elements. Stylistically,
12901-444: The lens of hindsight". "Hope Ur OK", the closing track, has been reported to be a "shimmering blessing to down-on-their-luck people Rodrigo has known", and the sound of the chorus has been described as a benediction . Lyrically, it steps away from Rodrigo's self-referential narratives to secondhand stories from her friends, rooting from her genuine sympathy to them. Rodrigo revealed that the song makes her "really emotional", and that
13034-563: The lower-case print is due to the characteristic word forms furnished by this type. This permits reading by word units, while all capitals tend to be read letter by letter. Furthermore, since all-capital printing takes at least one-third more space than lower case, more fixation pauses are required for reading the same amount of material. The use of all capitals should be dispensed with in every printing situation. According to Tinker, "As early as 1914, Starch reported that material set in Roman lower case
13167-420: The magazine covers of Billboard , Interview , Elle , The Face , NME , Nylon , and Variety . On May 25, Rodrigo appeared on Vevo Lift to perform " Favorite Crime ". On June 29, 2021, a livestream concert film entitled Sour Prom aired on Rodrigo's YouTube channel, in celebration of Sour 's success. It featured songs from the album performed in various locations, such as "the back of
13300-556: The making of the album." To support Sour , Rodrigo embarked on the Sour Tour , her first headlining concert tour . It covered North America and Europe with 47 dates. It commenced on April 5, 2022, in Portland, Oregon , and concluded on July 7, 2022, in London . Gracie Abrams and Holly Humberstone were the opening acts for the North American dates, and Baby Queen for European dates. On
13433-497: The melodies of folk music. I love the tonality of alt-pop. Obviously, I'm obsessed with pop and pop artists. So I'm going to try and take all of my sort of influences ... and make something that I like. Rodrigo wrote the album's lyrics to explore a variety of " sour " emotions that young women "are often shamed for", including anger, jealousy, and sadness. The album's title refers to the concept of "awesome things" in Rodrigo's life "progressively going sour" as she gets older, representing
13566-401: The memory of this deliverance it was thought proper, whoever forgot so remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the patriarch." Source: In Armenian culture , an April Fool prank is revealed by saying ապրիլ մեկ! ( april mek ) which means 1 April. In Germany, an April Fool prank
13699-523: The opportunity to add marginal notes emphasising key points. Legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner has described the practice as "ghastly". A 2020 study found that all-caps in legal texts is ineffective and is, in fact, harmful to older readers. In 2002, a US court spoke out against the practice, ruling that simply making text all-capitals has no bearing on whether it is clear and easily readable: Lawyers who think their caps lock keys are instant "make conspicuous" buttons are deluded. In determining whether
13832-476: The pandemic, they were "oddly very fortunate to have as much time as we did to make music". Rodrigo's goal for her debut project, Sour , was to create a multifaceted body of work that blends mainstream pop , folk , and alternative rock genres, as well as elements of pop-punk , country , and grunge . According to Rodrigo, the album was inspired by the works of her favorite singer-songwriters, including Alanis Morissette , Taylor Swift , Kacey Musgraves , and
13965-473: The piano line from Taylor Swift's " New Year's Day " (2017), which was a result of Rodrigo singing "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" over the chords of the Swift song. It is described to be a "regret-wracked" tune. Rodrigo revealed that she wrote the hook of the song from a text message, going on to say that she "thought it would be a cool way to describe this toxic, sort of manipulative relationship". The chirping birds at
14098-500: The post-breakdown record". She added its organic musicality breaks the "shiny surfaces we've come to expect from such glossy girls." Olivia Horn of Pitchfork called it a "nimble and lightly chaotic collection of breakup tunes filled with melancholy and mischief", with profanity typically prohibited by the morality clauses limiting Disney singers. However, Horn stated Rodrigo is "more invested in content than in craft" at moments, settling for simple rhymes, self-evident phrasing, and
14231-540: The practice, with the custom ceasing at noon, after which time it is no longer acceptable to play pranks. Thus a person playing a prank after midday is considered the "April fool" themselves. In Scotland, April Fools' Day was originally called " Huntigowk Day ". The name is a corruption of "hunt the gowk ", gowk being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd , "gowking day", or Là Ruith na Cuthaige , "the day of running
14364-405: The prankster says, " ¡Que la inocencia te valga! " which roughly translates as advice to not be as gullible as the victim of the prank. In Spain, it is common to say just " ¡Inocente! " (which in Spanish can mean "innocent" or "gullible"). In Colombia, the term is used as " Pásala por Inocentes ", which roughly means: "Let it go; today it's Innocent's Day." In Belgium, this day is also known as
14497-489: The reading time. When this is combined with the difficulty in reading words in all-capital letters as units, the hindrance to rapid reading becomes marked. In the eye-movement study by Tinker and Patterson, the principal difference in oculomotor patterns between lower case and all capitals was the very large increase in number of fixation pauses for reading the all-capital print. All caps text should be eliminated from most forms of composition, according to Tinker: Considering
14630-516: The same ROM. Game designers often choose to have less characters in favor of more tiles. With the advent of the bulletin board system , or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps commonly became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and may be considered rude. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to at least 1984 and before the Internet, back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting. For this reason, etiquette generally discourages
14763-435: The second 2021 album to earn more than 100,000 units in each of its first five weeks, after Morgan Wallen 's Dangerous: The Double Album . The second instance in its seventh charting week, when Sour moved 88,000 units. It remained at the top spot the next week as well, becoming the first debut album by a female artist to spend four weeks atop the chart since Susan Boyle 's I Dreamed a Dream (2009). The album returned to
14896-477: The song is "super personal about people that [she] really love[s]". On an appearance on The Zach Sang Show, Rodrigo described the placement of the track as the album's closer: "I feel like it's super hopeful. Sour is a very sort of sad, angry, emotional record, and I wanted to end it with a song that was [reassuring]. It was really important for me to end this sort of somber record on that note." On April 1, 2021, Rodrigo announced on social media her debut album with
15029-540: The song, directed by Matthew Dillon Cohen, was uploaded to Rodrigo's YouTube channel simultaneously with the single's release. The song broke a string of records, including the Spotify record for the most single-day streams for a non- holiday song and the biggest first week for a song on Spotify and on Amazon Music . The song debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and made Rodrigo the youngest artist ever to debut atop
15162-405: The taste of a different side of Sour , departing from the slower and melancholic emotion of the preceding singles "Drivers License" and "Deja Vu". "Good 4 U" debuted atop the Hot 100, garnering Rodrigo her second number-one song in the US and the second from Sour . "Traitor" impacted US contemporary hit radio formats on August 10, 2021, as the fourth single from Sour . Before it was promoted as
15295-425: The titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym . Studies have been conducted on the readability and legibility of all caps text. Scientific testing from the 20th century onward has generally indicated that all caps text
15428-426: The top ten. Eight of the album's tracks entered the top 10 of Billboard Streaming Songs chart, breaking the record for the most simultaneous top-10 entries on the chart. "Brutal" debuted atop Hot Rock & Alternative Songs , marking the first number-one debut on the chart since Swift's " Cardigan " (2020). As of October 2021, Sour amassed 2.35 million units in the US, making it the best-selling album of 2021 by
15561-463: The tour, Rodrigo covered Avril Lavigne 's " Complicated " at all tour dates. At the Toronto show on April 29, Lavigne joined Rodrigo as a surprise guest on stage to perform the song together for the first time. Sour received critical acclaim upon release. The general consensus was that the album is a strong debut record that mounts Rodrigo as the new face of " Gen Z pop". On Metacritic , which assigns
15694-522: The track "Traitor" debuted at number 7; Rodrigo became the first artist since Swift in 2020, to chart four or more songs in the top 10 of the chart. Six other tracks from Sour debuted in the top 50 of the chart. Sour topped the ARIA Albums Chart for eight non-consecutive weeks. In Ireland, Sour launched at number one on the Irish Albums Chart with the biggest opening-week sales of 2021 in
15827-574: The use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Some aspects of Microsoft's Metro design language involve the use of all caps headings and titles. This has received particular attention when menu and ribbon titles appeared in all caps in Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 , respectively. Critics have compared this to
15960-441: The virus into potential pranks. For example, Google decided not to do its traditional April Fools’ jokes that year. Because the pandemic was still ongoing a year later in 2021, Google also decided not to do pranks that year. In Thailand , the police warned ahead of April Fools' in 2021 that posting or sharing fake news online could lead to maximum of five years imprisonment. Other examples of genuine news on 1 April mistaken as
16093-404: The word "sour" has many different meanings and she tried to write a song titled "Sour" for a long time but was unsuccessful in doing so, making her realize that it is an "all-encompassing" trope that covered the sour portion of her life. She tried to balance the "sour" songs of the album with love songs , in order to avoid being pigeonholed as "the heartbreak girl"; however, she eventually dropped
16226-601: The working title *O*R would be released on May 21, 2021. Preorders for the album began the following day. On April 13, Rodrigo teased the album's title and subsequently revealed it as Sour , posting its track listing and cover artwork on the same day. It was released on May 21, 2021, via retail stores, digital music and streaming platforms , as well as on Rodrigo's website. Vinyl LPs of Sour were released on August 20, 2021, in various colored variants, each of which were exclusively available at Rodrigo's webstore, Urban Outfitters , Target , Walmart , or Amazon . Merchandise in
16359-488: Was the world's tenth best-selling artist of 2021 . Following the debuts of "Drivers License" and "Good 4 U" at the number one spot of the US Billboard Hot 100 , Sour became the first debut album in history to have two songs debut atop the chart, and overall the fourth album to do so. Sour debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 295,000 album-equivalent units , of which 72,000 were album sales, and spent
16492-516: Was also the best-selling cassette tape in the UK in 2021 with 14,000 copies sold. Sour became the fourth best-selling album in the UK by the year-end, behind ABBA 's Voyage , Ed Sheeran 's = and Adele 's 30 . Sour spent an entire calendar year inside of the UK Top 20 on the Official Charts with a total of 46 weeks of those spent inside of the Top 10. The album arrived at number one on
16625-576: Was common on teletype machines, such as those used by police departments, news, and the United States' then-called Weather Bureau , as well as early computers, such as certain early Apple II models and the ZX81 , which had a limited support for lower-case text. This changed as full support of ASCII became standard, allowing lower-case characters. Some Soviet computers , such as Radio-86RK , Vector-06C , Agat-7 , use 7-bit encoding called KOI-7N2, where capital Cyrillic letters replace lower-case Latin letters in
16758-531: Was established as the start of the calendar year. In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the celebration as "Fooles holy day", the first British reference. On 1 April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed". Although no biblical scholar or historian is known to have mentioned a relationship, some have expressed the belief that the origins of April Fools' Day may go back to
16891-492: Was estimated to save the Navy $ 20 million a year and is compliant with current Internet protocol. An antiquated practice that still remains in use, especially by older American lawyers who grew up before the arrival of computers, is to use all caps text for text that is legally required to be emphasised and clearly readable. The practice dates to the period of typewriters, which generally did not offer bold text, small capitals, or
17024-586: Was nominated at the 2021 UK Music Video Awards in the category 'Best Special Video Project'. On February 17, 2022, Rodrigo announced a documentary about Sour , titled Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film) , releasing to Disney+ on March 25, 2022. It was directed by Stacey Lee and produced by Interscope Films and Supper Club. According to a press release, the film captures Rodrigo's road trip from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, during which she began writing Sour . The film includes "new live arrangements of her songs, intimate interviews, and never-before-seen footage from
17157-599: Was not adopted officially until 1564, by the Edict of Roussillon , as called for during the Council of Trent in 1563. However, there are issues with this theory because there is an unambiguous reference to April Fools' Day in a 1561 poem by Flemish poet Eduard de Dene of a nobleman who sent his servant on foolish errands on 1 April, predating the change. April Fools' Day was also an established tradition in Great Britain before 1 January
17290-517: Was praised by music critics, who regarded it as a strong debut album, underscoring Rodrigo's realistic lyrics and appeal to Gen Z listeners. Various publications listed it among the best albums of 2021, including Billboard and Rolling Stone that placed the album at number one on their year-end rankings. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards , Sour and "Drivers License" won Best Pop Vocal Album and Pop Solo Performance , respectively; Rodrigo won Best New Artist as well. A YouTube concert film and
17423-427: Was read somewhat faster than similar material printed in all capitals." Another study in 1928 showed that "all-capital text was read 11.8 percent slower than lower case, or approximately 38 words per minute slower", and that "nine-tenths of adult readers consider lower case more legible than all capitals". A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that "all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9.5 to 19.0 percent for
17556-480: Was the first debut album to produce two number-one debuts on the US Billboard Hot 100 : "Drivers License" and " Good 4 U ". The singles " Deja Vu " and " Traitor " entered the top 10. Sour broke the global Spotify record for the biggest opening week for an album by a female artist. It topped the charts in several countries, including the US Billboard 200 , and was one of the best-selling albums of 2021. Sour
17689-399: Was the last song written for the album; Rodrigo and Nigro wrote the track two weeks before she had to turn in the record. Rodrigo noted that the song represents her teenage years. The song has "thrashy" guitars, and was reported to be a "desire to defy any pop expectations that have been placed upon [Rodrigo] by fans, friends, executives, or exes". Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic described
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