"Can't Catch Me Now" is a song by American singer-songwriter
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo (born February 20, 2003) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She gained recognition in the late 2010s with her lead roles on the Disney television programs '' Bizaardvark'' and '' High School Musical: The Musi ...
from the
soundtrack
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to the 2023 American dystopian action film ''
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes''. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer,
Dan Nigro
Daniel Leonard Nigro (born May 14, 1982) is an American musician, songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. He was the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band As Tall As Lions. Nigro has produced, written and co-written songs ...
.
Geffen Records
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Founded in 1980, Geffen Records has been a part of Interscope Geffen A&M since 1999 and ...
released it as the soundtrack's second single on November 3, 2023. A
folk rock
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and
chamber-folk ballad
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driven by
acoustic guitar
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s, the song has lyrics about vengeance and the narrator's ubiquitousness in the subject's life, inspired by the film's plot.
Music critics
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praised Rodrigo's ability to make folk-influenced music and her vocal performance on "Can't Catch Me Now", comparing its sound to the ballads on her own albums. The song received several awards and nominations, including winning a
Hollywood Music in Media Award and a
Gold List award. It was shortlisted for
Best Original Song
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at the
96th Academy Awards
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but was not nominated. In the United States, the song debuted at number 56 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song reached the top 30 in Australia, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Leonn Ward directed the
music video
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for "Can't Catch Me Now", which intersperses scenes from ''The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'' with clips of Rodrigo singing it in a cabin and a grass field. She performed the song at the
KIIS-FM Jingle Ball
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and on ''
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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''. Rodrigo included it on the
set list
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for some dates of her 2024 concert tour, the
Guts World Tour
The Guts World Tour is an ongoing second concert tour by American singer-songwriter and actress Olivia Rodrigo in support of her second studio album, '' Guts'' (2023). It began on February 23, 2024, in Palm Springs, and is set to conclude on ...
.
Kelly Clarkson
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performed a cover version of the song for ''
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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'' in April 2024.
Background and release
For her debut studio album, ''
Sour
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'' (2021),
Olivia Rodrigo
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drew inspiration from several genres, including
pop
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,
folk
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, and
alternative rock
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. Its sole producer,
Dan Nigro
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, returned as her principal collaborator on the follow-up album, ''
Guts
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'' (2023).
It included some
indie folk
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The genre has it ...
songs, with lyrical themes like heartbreak, body image, and social and adolescent anxieties.
The album was released to critical acclaim in September 2023. The songs on the albums were autobiographical, with Rodrigo approaching the songwriting process like writing a diary entry.
In 2022, Rodrigo was approached to preview the American dystopian action film ''
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'' and potentially write music inspired by it. A fan of
the books
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and
the soundtracks from the franchise, she considered it "such an honor".
Rodrigo was stimulated by one of the final scenes in the movie, an aerial view of birds weaving in and out among trees, which she kept thinking about repeatedly and believed was the "climax".
She felt a connection to the character
Lucy Gray Baird
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, portrayed by
Rachel Zegler
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; Rodrigo and Nigro wrote the song "Can't Catch Me Now" from her perspective, with the intention of capturing the scene.
Rodrigo enjoyed the challenge of writing from a movie character's point of view, describing it as "sort of acting" and "character work",
but she also believed parts of the song were about herself: "I think I injected parts of myself into it too. I saw bits of myself in her; I admired her resilience, so I tried to embody all that and put it into the song."
Nigro nudged her to experiment with new musical styles on it as well.
On November 1, 2023, Rodrigo's hotline began playing a short clip of "Can't Catch Me Now" on repeat. The same day,
Lionsgate
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announced that the track would serve as the official song for the film, at a promotional event in
Times Square
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which was attended by its actors Zegler,
Tom Blyth
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, and
Josh Andrés Rivera
Josh Andrés Rivera is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Chino in Steven Spielberg's 2021 remake of '' West Side Story'' and as Sejanus Plinth in '' The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes''.
Early life
Rivera i ...
. Alongside a 60-second trailer of ''The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'', which featured the song, Rodrigo revealed it would be released two days later and expressed her excitement about the opportunity to write for the film.
Geffen Records
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Founded in 1980, Geffen Records has been a part of Interscope Geffen A&M since 1999 and ...
made "Can't Catch Me Now" available for pre-order as the opening track on the film's accompanying 2023
soundtrack album, from which it served as the second single. The song was also released on the
7-inch
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vinyl format on November 3.
Composition and lyrics
"Can't Catch Me Now" is three minutes and 25 seconds long. Nigro produced and
mixed the song, and he
engineered
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it with Dylan Waterhouse. He plays guitar, keyboards, bass, and
Mellotron
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; Paul Cartwright conducted the string arrangement and plays viola and violin; and
Chappell Roan
Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan (born February 19, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. A pop music artist, she writes most of her own songs and has described her style as "dark pop with ballad undertones."
Wh ...
provides the background vocals.
Randy Merrill
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mastered the song.
"Can't Catch Me Now" is a
folk rock
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk music, folk and rock music, rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the American fo ...
and
chamber-folk ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or '' ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...
,
driven by
acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...
instrumentation.
The song opens with that instrument as the sole accompaniment to Rodrigo's voice and subsequently includes strings.
She
harmonizes with herself on it, which ''
Stereogum
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''Stereogum'' was one of the first MP3 blogs and has received several awa ...
''s Chris DeVille described as "piercing".
"Can't Catch Me Now" employs a melody which gradually rises to a slow crescendo,
and the intensity escalates when Rodrigo
belts the titular line over
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
l instrumentation: "You can't, you can't catch me now."
Her voice ascends while singing the line "Coming like a storm into your town."
The song ramps up and reaches an intense climax, after which Rodrigo sings the final line with "an open, unresolved cadence", according to ''
Consequence
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''s Carys Anderson and Jo Vito.
The lyrics of "Can't Catch Me Now" are written from Lucy Gray's perspective, inspired by the plot of ''The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes''.
They are about vengeance and the narrator's ubiquitousness in the subject's life.
The first verse describes scenes like snowfall and mountains, as the narrator wonders that the subject probably expected them to become less furious over time. In the chorus, they taunt the subject that, despite being everywhere, the latter would not be able to capture them: "But I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze / My footsteps on the ground / You'll see my face in every place / But you can't catch me now."
Rodrigo then sings "Coming like a storm into your town", which Steffanee Wang of ''
Nylon
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Nylon is a silk-like thermoplastic, generally made from pet ...
'' interpreted as a reference to Lucy Gray.
During the song's conclusion, Rodrigo alludes to the film again: "Yeah, sometimes the fire you founded / Don't burn the way you'd expect / Yeah, you thought that this was the end."
Critical reception
Music critics
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were positive about "Can't Catch Me Now" and believed its folk-influenced production suited Rodrigo.
''
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''s Rob Ledonne described the song as emotional and compelling, and he thought it proved that folk music could also showcase her talent and marked "one more step towards Rodrigo's world domination".
Alex Hopper of ''
American Songwriter
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'' believed it was alluring, shocking, and "one of her most interesting songs to date".
Though he thought "Can't Catch Me Now" represented a change in Rodrigo's sound, it also felt natural of her and Nigro.
Critics believed "Can't Catch Me Now" resembled the ballads on her own albums, and ''
Billboard
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''s Jason Lipshutz opined it formed an earnest addition to the soundtrack and her discography.
Some reviewers, like Anderso, Vito, and ''
The New Zealand Herald
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''s Alana Rae, praised Rodrigo's vocal performance.
Liberty Dunworth of ''
NME
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'' called her voice "haunting", and Wang believed it "soars into the treetops".
Ledonne, Anderson, and Vito thought the melodies were luxurious,
and others described the acoustic instrumentation as intense.
Accolades
"Can't Catch Me Now" received awards and nominations. The song won the 2023
, and in 2024, the
Gold List award for Best Original Song and the Society of Composers and Lyricists Award for Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production. It received nominations for Best Original Song at the 2023 North Carolina Film Critics Association and the 2024
Gold Derby Film Awards, as well as the 2024 Guild of Music Supervisors Award for Best Song Written and/or Recording Created for a Film. "Can't Catch Me Now" was shortlisted for
Best Original Song
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at the
96th Academy Awards
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, but it was not nominated.
Commercial performance
"Can't Catch Me Now" debuted at number 56 on the US
''Billboard'' Hot 100 issued for November 18, 2023.
In Canada, the song peaked at number 42 on the
Canadian Hot 100 issued for December 2, 2023, and was certified platinum by
Music Canada
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.
It reached number 12 on the
UK Singles Chart
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.
"Can't Catch Me Now" received a silver certification in the United Kingdom from the
British Phonographic Industry
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, and the
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declared it her 16th-biggest song in the country in February 2024.
In Australia, "Can't Catch Me Now" charted at number 23 and was certified platinum by the
Australian Recording Industry Association
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(ARIA) for selling 70,000 equivalent units.
The song entered at number 15 in New Zealand.
It peaked at number 43 on the
''Billboard'' Global 200.
"Can't Catch Me Now" also reached the top 50 at number 5 in Ireland,
number 25 in Lithuania,
number 37 in Norway,
number 44 in the Czech Republic,
number 45 in the Netherlands,
and number 50 in Slovakia.
The song received gold certifications in Belgium,
Brazil,
and Poland.
Music video
Leonn Ward directed the
music video
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for "Can't Catch Me Now", which was released on November 13, 2023.
The
cinematic
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video intersperses clips of Rodrigo with scenes from ''The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes''.
It begins with a camera tracking shot being guided inside an isolated cabin, where she performs the song on a guitar while perched on a bed.
After strolling through the cabin, Rodrigo leaves it and runs through a field of grass in a white sleek dress during the bridge. She also sings the chorus during this sequence: "You'll see my face in every place / But you can't catch me now."
Scenes depicting Blyth and Zegler portraying their characters play out simultaneously. In the final scene, sunlight falls upon Rodrigo.
Live performances and other usage
Rodrigo performed "Can't Catch Me Now" live for the first time at the
KIIS-FM Jingle Ball
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on December 1, 2023. ''
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''s KiMi Robinson remarked that even though the song was only a month old at the time, the fans sang along as if it had been out for much longer, and
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's Sarah Tate thought it "continued to build energy and defiance" during her set. 10 days later, Rodrigo reprised the song on ''
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''. Clad in a white slip dress, she initially sat on a stool amidst bare trees and a fog-covered set before standing up while delivering the chorus with a backing band of four musicians and singers in the shadows.
Gil Kaufman of ''Billboard'' believed the theater was filled with electrifying pop energy.
Rodrigo included the song on the
set list
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for some dates of her 2024 concert tour, the
Guts World Tour
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. ''
Miami New Times
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It was acquired by Village Voi ...
''s Celia Almeida considered it a highlight of the show.
Kelly Clarkson
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covered "Can't Catch Me Now" on ''
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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'' on April 25, 2024, in an olive green cargo dress with her hair styled in soft waves.
She was supported by a vocalist providing harmonies and a team of instrumentalists. Writing for ''Billboard'', Rania Aniftos described it as "flawlessly delivered".
Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from
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.
*
Dan Nigro
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– producer, songwriter,
mixing,
engineer
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, guitar, keyboards, bass,
Mellotron
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*Olivia Rodrigo – songwriter
*Paul Cartwright – string arrangement, viola, violin
*Dylan Waterhouse – engineer
*
Chappell Roan
Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan (born February 19, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. A pop music artist, she writes most of her own songs and has described her style as "dark pop with ballad undertones."
Wh ...
– background vocals
*
Randy Merrill
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–
mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
Note
References
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