Favorite Crime

Album

SOUR

Label

Geffen Records

Genre

Folk-pop

Composer(s)

Daniel Nigro;Olivia Rodrigo

Entered Chart

Jun 5, 2021

Peak Date

Jun 12, 2021

Released

May 21, 2021

Recorded

September 2020 Studio Amusement (Los Angeles)

Catalog #

Geffen Records

B-Side

n/a

"Favorite Crime" is a stripped-down folky song where Olivia Rodrigo looks back at a dysfunctional relationship. She employs various Bonnie and Clyde-type metaphors to illustrate how her ex committed the crime of walking out, leaving her heartbroken. And I watched as you fled the scene Doe-eyed as you buried me She admits to ignoring the glaring red flags that he was taking advantage of her. I let you treat me like that I was your willing accomplice, honey Despite the way the boy treated Rodrigo, she admits she loved him, which is why he was her "favorite crime." Rodrigo wrote the song with her producer, Dan Nigro, in the summer of 2020. The singer had "know I loved you so bad I let you treat me like that" written in her notes app, and it was that line that generated the rest of "Favorite Crime." Rodrigo shared in her Sour Diary "Journal / Zine" that she loves the way this song became one extended metaphor. "Figurative language was something I had to work on in my song writing," she wrote. "I'm a very literal, specific writer and metaphors and similes aren't often where my brain tends to go, so I'm super proud of this song." Dan Nigro played the acoustic guitar, bass and Roland Juno 60 synthesizer. The only other musician on the track is saxophonist Ryan Linville. Rodrigo performed the song live for the first time for Vevo LIFT on May 25, 2021.

Know that I loved you so bad
I let you treat me like that
I was your willing accomplice, honey

And I watched as you fled the scene
Doe-eyed as you buried me
One heart broke, four hands bloody

Those things I did
Just so I could call you mine
The things you did
Well, I hope I was your favorite crime

You used me as an alibi
I crossed my heart as you crossed the line
And I defended you to all my friends

And now, every time a siren sounds
I wonder if you're around
'Cause you know that I'd do it all again

All the things I did
Just so I could call you mine
The things you did
Well, I hope I was your favorite crime

It's bittersweet to think about the damage that we do
'Cause I was going down, but I was doing it with you
Yeah, everything we broke, and all the trouble that we made
But I say that I hate you with a smile on my face

Oh, look what we became

All the things I did
Just so I could call you mine
All the things you did
Well, I hope I was your favorite crime

Your favorite crime
Your favorite crime
'Cause baby, you were mine