Olivia Rodrigo has announced her third album, ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’.
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The follow-up to 2023’s ‘Guts’ will arrive via Geffen on June 12 – pre-order/pre-save here. It will see her reunite with producer and regular collaborator Dan Nigro, who also produced ‘Guts’ and her 2021 debut ‘Sour’.
Speculation was building for Rodrigo to announce an album with cryptic pink album teasers having been discovered by fans in Los Angeles and London. In a recent interview with British Vogue, the feature described what they have heard of the new record 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 had brought Smith out during her headline set at Glastonbury last summer, performing The Cure‘s songs ‘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.
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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