Olivia Rodrigo has returned with her new single ‘Drop Dead’. Find all the details below.
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The new track comes from her upcoming album ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’, which will arrive via Geffen on June 12 – pre-order/pre-save here. The follow-up to 2023’s ‘Guts’ sees her reunite with producer and regular collaborator Dan Nigro, who also produced ‘Guts’ and her 2021 debut ‘Sour’.
Rich in dreamy synth and harmonies, the track notably features a reference to The Cure, with Rodrigo singing: “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/And I know why he wrote them now that you’re standing right here”.
It comes after she brought out Robert Smith during her headline set at Glastonbury last summer, performing ‘Friday I’m In Love’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’. Rodrigo then released the duets with Smith as part of her ‘Live From Glastonbury 2025’ album.
In the music video, Rodrigo takes over Versailles in Paris, dancing around the halls with her headphones on and shredding an electric guitar. “You lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles,” she sings. “The most alive I’ve ever been.”
On Instagram, Rodrigo wrote, “I love this song so much!!! It’s the first chapter in the story of ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ and it makes me wanna skip around and roll the windows down and make out!”
Check out the video below.
The album announcement came after weeks of speculation, after cryptic pink album teasers cropped up around Los Angeles and London. In a recent interview with British Vogue, the record was described as Rodrigo at her “most experimental”, with one track being labelled as “smooth, trippy soft rock”.
Rodrigo herself told the publication that the album consists of “sad love songs”, adding: “I realised all my favourite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them.”
“I’ve found a lot of inspiration from being in London,” she added. “I’ve spent so much time here over the course of making this album. It has a lot of songs that are London vibes, about experiences that I’ve had here.
“It was a creative challenge to write from a joyful place. When you’re experiencing that you’re connected to someone, or feeling really good, you’re not in your head thinking about bittersweet poems!”
Elsewhere in the British Vogue piece, Robert Smith opened up about his relationship with Rodrigo, revealing that he became a fan after hearing her breakout single ‘Drivers License’, and went on to buy both ‘Sour’ and ‘Guts’.
“Although most of the songs on those two albums are not really ‘aimed at my demographic’, they are all so good that it is hard not to fall in love with them,” Smith wrote in the piece.
Rodrigo has since said she has been “diving deeper into The Cure’s discography”, while Smith added that he’s “enjoyed a couple of memorable nights in the studio” with the singer.
The artist also recently contributed a song for the star-studded ‘Help(2)’ charity album, which raised money for War Child.
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