Olivia Rodrigo will drop the first single from her third album, “Drop Dead,” on April 17.
The singer revealed the news on her Instagram Tuesday alongside a photo of her blowing a bubble with gum, with the name of the single embroidered on her shirt.
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Last week, Rodrigo announced that her third full-length album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” will release on June 12. She recorded the album alongside producer Dan Nigro, whom she worked with on her first two albums, “Sour” and “Guts.”
Though little has been shared about the album itself, Rodrigo teased its themes in a British Vogue cover story last month, saying it’s full of “sad love songs.”
“It was a creative challenge to write from a joyful place,” she said. “When you’re experiencing that you’re connected to someone, or feeling really good, you’re not in your head thinking about bittersweet poems!”
British Vogue writer Amel Mukhtar heard three songs from the album and described them as “instantly transporting, cinematic and so intimate.” From Mukhtar’s story, one song is about “the spirituality of finding the man of your dreams,” while another “traces the withdrawal symptoms of separation” and was inspired by Miranda and Steve’s relationship on “Sex and the City.” A third tune is about the realizing that “love won’t fix you” and is described by British Vogue as “dancier” and “experimental,” with an “orchestral end.”
“You’re getting to the core of all of your issues: how you feel about yourself, your insecurities, what makes you joyful,” Rodrigo added about love. “It feels like the most raw form of you, which is so scary and terrifying and uncomfortable, sometimes, but beautiful at times.”
