Adolescent love does not always get better as we grow older. Here, Olivia Rodrigo has an amazing way of putting her own experiences together in a way that resonates with her 49 million monthly listeners. How is it that 49 million different people, including myself, have all gone through similar and sometimes even identical situations of heartbreak and anger. In "Vampire" by Olivia Rodrigo, Olivia describes how vulnerable she felt after her "significant other" lied and sucked the blood (life) out of her after portraying and pretending to be in love. Olivia has an array of lyrics that resonate with my own personal teenage experience but the one that hits home the most is "You said it was true love, but wouldn't that be hard? You can't love anyone, 'cause that would mean you had a heart. I tried you help you out, now I know that I can't. 'Cause how you think's the kind of thing I'll never understand." In the lyric "You said it was true love, but wouldn't that be hard? You can't love anyone, 'cause that would mean you had a heart", Olivia explains that someone as heartless as this persona couldn't possibly have been telling the truth about anything after the way she was treated. When thinking about this lyric, with personal experiences, boys at their later teenage years are peer pressured into "collecting" as many girls as possible which means they will lie and manipulate an innocent girl into believing that they are truly in love just to boast about it to their friends and even to feel better about themselves and boost their ego. When going through this myself, I had recently left a relationship of 4 years since high school, it took me a year to start dating again and I was not looking for a relationship. I met a guy who promised me the stars and the moon. He made me believe that he was truly in love but unfortunately, it only came out at night. I thought I was smart just like the song says, but he made me look so naive. I put my guard up immediately and he proved me right. When everything went down, I realized I was part of his game, I wasn't the only one. I gave my all thinking no games were being played because how he thinks is something I never understood and knowing now, I don't want to understand because he needs help beyond what I could have ever done for him. You never know someone's true intentions until they've sucked you up dry. This particular song has over 1 billion streams. How can boys be so cruel. Pretending to be the cool guy but in reality, society laughs at their stupidity. When they think they look cool but look embarrassing playing the part. But who was the fool at the end of the day? I'm sure 49 million people ask themselves the same question. We thought we were smarter than the situation but yearning for young love blinded us into believing every little beautiful thing we heard. But with every situation, a lesson is learned that we must value ourselves and even the smallest red flag cannot be overlooked. Trust yourself mainly and keep those around you close, we must not allow ourselves to be sucked up dry by the lies of these little boys. There is someone for everyone and we should not settle for things we wouldn't want our daughters to settle for. Miss Olivia could not have said it any better.