"All-American Bitch" is a 2023 song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo (pictured) from her second studio album, Guts. Lyrically, it is satire and explores Rodrigo's concerns about society's double standards and contradictory expectations for women. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro, and believed it captured feelings repressed since age 15. It begins as a folk song and transitions into pop-punk during the chorus, incorporating influences of punk, rock, grunge, and pop rock. "All-American Bitch" was viewed as a successful opening track that appealed to Generation Z by music critics, who praised Rodrigo's vocals and the production. The song reached number 13 in the US and the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Rodrigo performed it on Saturday Night Live, where she stabbed a red-colored cake at a tea party and splattered it on her face; the performance received positive reviews. She also included it on the set list of the 2024–2025 Guts World Tour.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1925:

Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (cover pictured), to a libretto by Colette, was premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges

1968:

War of Attrition: The Battle of Karameh took place between the Israel Defense Forces and allied troops of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karameh

1980:

The American soap opera Dallas aired the episode "A House Divided", which led to eight months of international speculation on "Who shot J.R.?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_House_Divided_%28Dallas%29

2019:

A major explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng, China, killed 78 people and injured 640 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Xiangshui_chemical_plant_explosion

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

diverse: 1. Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct. 2. Consisting of different elements; various. 3. Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform. 4. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc. 5. (nonstandard) Of a person: belonging to a minority group. 6. (obsolete) 7. Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful. 8. Having different colours; mottled, variegated. 9. (rare) Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diverse

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.   --Jean Paul https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Paul