Olivia Rodrigo has teased that her “experimental” new album will probably be stuffed with “unhappy love songs”.
Hypothesis has been mounting this week that the singer is gearing as much as launch new music, with cryptic pink album teasers having been found by followers in Los Angeles and London.
Rodrigo launched her final album ‘Guts’ in 2023, itself the follow-up to her critically acclaimed breakthrough file ‘Bitter’ two years earlier. Since then, she has performed numerous enormous headline exhibits, together with her Pyramid Stage headline set at Glastonbury 2025, the place she introduced out The Remedy’s Robert Smith as a particular visitor.
The singer has now been interviewed within the new version of British Vogue, with the function describing what they’ve heard of the brand new file as Rodrigo at her “most experimental”, with one monitor being labelled as “easy, trippy tender rock”.
Rodrigo herself advised the publication that the album consists of “unhappy love songs”, including: “I realised all my favorite romantic love songs have been lovely as a result of they’d a tinge of worry or craving in them.”
“I’ve discovered numerous inspiration from being in London,” she added. “I’ve spent a lot time right here over the course of creating this album. It has numerous songs which can be London vibes, about experiences that I’ve had right here.
“It was a artistic problem to jot down from a joyful place. When you’re experiencing that you’re related to somebody, or feeling actually good, you’re not in your head eager about bittersweet poems!”
A part of the explanation for Rodrigo’s prolonged stays in London will be attributed to her relationship with the British actor Louis Partridge, identified for Home Of Guinness and Enola Holmes.
Elsewhere within the British Vogue piece, Robert Smith opened up about his relationship with Rodrigo, revealing that he grew to become a fan after listening to her breakout single ‘Drivers License’, and went on to purchase each ‘Bitter’ and ‘Guts’.
“Though a lot of the songs on these two albums are usually not actually ‘geared toward my demographic’, they’re all so good that it’s onerous to not fall in love with them,” Smith wrote within the piece.
He went on to say that the 2 artists had remained associates since their dwell team-up at Glastonbury, and hinted at a possible upcoming collaboration.
“She calls me up fairly a bit to speak about garments and trend – and we have loved a few memorable nights within the studio collectively,” Smith continued. “I can’t wait to listen to what she does subsequent!”
Final yr, Rodrigo launched her dwell duets with Smith as a part of her ‘Dwell From Glastonbury 2025’ album.
Along with her love of The Remedy, Rodrigo mentioned in December that she has just lately discovered inspiration from the likes of New Order and Pleasure Division, in addition to The White Stripes and Bikini Kill.
Earlier than then, she mentioned in 2023 that she had been to look at The Remedy and Depeche Mode dwell along with her dad, and added that her dad and mom have been primarily into “grunge, rock and different” music when she was rising up, which rubbed off on her.
Throughout a dialog with NME in 2021, Rodrigo mentioned each her mom and father have been “music heads” and had inspired their daughter’s inventive endeavours from an early age.
“I really like pop-punk music; I really like grunge music; I really like nation music and folks music,” she defined on the time. “I believe, truthfully, you possibly can see little influences of all of these genres in my [debut] album [‘Sour’].”
