The Record Executive Cracking Today’s Girl Code

Record executive John Janick is cultivating the women-dominated zeitgeist that is the current lifeblood of popular music. Case in point: Last fall, Olivia Rodrigo was nervous that her highly anticipated second album—the follow-up to 2021’s monstrously successful “Sour”—might disappoint fans. Janick invited her over to have dinner at his home with his wife and three children in their backyard. “I told her, ‘Olivia, you’re an amazing person. We signed you because you’re a generational artist. You’re going to be doing this for a long time,’” says Janick, whose label, Interscope...