enough for you by Olivia Rodrigo
- myanalysisofmedia
- Feb 25, 2024
- 2 min read
Context
Enough for you by Olivia Rodrigo is a pop song that was released in 2021, part of Olivia’s debut album, SOUR. This song is firstly about Olivia’s ex boyfriend and how her relationship felt, however it is also about how insecurities affect a person and their relationship.
Insecurities
In the song Olivia discusses how she constantly doesn't feel good enough for her ex-partner. How she tries so hard to impress him by learning about his interests just to be overlooked. This experience she receives feeds into her insecurities making them grow larger and larger. The way her ex treated her affected Olivia with all her other romantic or platonic relationships, making her feel this inferiority to people. As said in the song title, enough for you, Olivia never feels pretty enough or good enough or smart enough to be in someone’s life.
This type of inferiority insecurity can affect both your self-esteem and relationships. It damages how you see yourself and you will start doubting yourself in relationships. It will cause you to be constantly trying to fix or redeem yourself to others, tiring yourself out.

Growing up
As you grow up, you will learn that usually when someone makes you feel like you are not good enough it is because they don’t feel good enough themselves. Knowing this we can learn to not take invalid criticism and ignore people who do not respect us. If someone makes you feel that you are not good enough, you should not be around them until they learn how to be good enough for themselves. Once they are confident enough in themselves they will start treating you and others correctly.
However, keeping Olivia’s quote in mind we must also be careful that when we do not feel good enough, we do not make others feel the same way. Just because we are feeling insecure does not mean we should make others feel the same way.
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Although this song is known as a “break up song”, I think it conveys a much larger message of insecurities and how we can push our insecurities onto others. Enough for you is a beautifully written song that perfectly captures the experience of being made to feel not good enough by someone important to you.
Let this song serve as a reminder that everyone is good enough and we should never make others feel that they are not.
How did you interpret this song?
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