Olivia Rodrigo debuted a new song featuring Weyes Blood at a secret LA show. Find all the details below.
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Rodrigo is gearing up to share her third studio album ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’, which is set to arrive via Geffen on June 12 – pre-order/pre-save your copy here.
So far, she’s shared the lead single ‘Drop Dead’ and debuted it live during her surprise appearance in the middle of Addison Rae’s set at Coachella. Now, some fans have had a taste of the album’s next single, which appears to feature Weyes Blood.
The singer held an intimate, invite-only show at LA’s The Echo on Friday night (March 25) where phones were banned. During the gig, she brought out Weyes Blood to debut the new track, which she had previously described as “karaokable if you’re sad.”
Fans in attendance reportedly said the song was a “heartbreaking ballad” that sees Rodrigo “yearning and begging someone to stay.”
Olivia Rodrigo held an invite-only show at The Echo last night.
She debuted a new song from ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’, described by fans as a “heartbreaking ballad” where she’s “yearning and begging someone to stay,” and brought Weyes Blood onstage. pic.twitter.com/fg6T5uxAPR
— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) April 25, 2026
damn, olivia performed live at the echo for only one night and everyone wished that they can go(including me) pic.twitter.com/kUji7gR785
— Noni C (@pinkxchem) April 25, 2026
OLIVIA HAS A SONG FEATURING WEYES BLOOD ON HER NEW ALBUM… I DON’T THINK Y’ALL UNDERSTAND HOW MAJOR THIS IS pic.twitter.com/sIYZy6wpkH
— miguel (@cowboyinwoods13) April 25, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo brought out Weyes Blood alongside two others during her private show at the Echo. Weyes Blood seemingly did the backing vocals on the new song Olivia performed and was brought onstage to do them as well. pic.twitter.com/oG91OgH4Nl
— Olivia Rodrigo HQ (@OliviaRodrigoHQ) April 25, 2026
‘Drop Dead’ 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.
She’s since revealed she failed to play the track to Smith when she had the chance. In a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Rodrigo said: “Oh my god, I actually don’t know if I played it for him, he might hear it today. I played him a bunch of other songs on the album, I don’t know why I didn’t think to play this one for him though I should.”
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!”
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