Olivia Rodrigo is pining hard on “Drop Dead,” the lead single from her highly-anticipated album You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love.
“Drop Dead” opens with fluttery synths, as Rodrigo sings, “I know that the bar closes at 11/I hope you never finish that beer.” She references her recent collaborator Robert Smith, name-checking the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” (“You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/And I know why he wrote them now that you’re standing right here”) before the song erupts in blissful lines about falling in love with a dude on the internet.
In the video above, she parades around Versailles in Paris, shredding the guitar with headphones on. “You lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles,” she sings. “The most alive I’ve ever been.”
Rodrigo announced “Drop Dead” on April 7. Just like the lead-up to the album reveal, she’s been teasing the new track on Instagram, posting snippets of it on reels (one featured a photo of several pints of Guinness with the sentence “I hope you never finish that beer,” while another featured Rodrigo riding on a train, with the words “It’s feminine intuition”).
You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love, which her fans have dubbed GSIL, arrives June 12 via Geffen Records. It marks her third album, following 2023’s Guts and her smash 2021 debut, Sour. “No matter how hard I try to write love songs they always come out laced with a little melancholy,” Rodrigo said upon announcing the new album. “I am so proud of this record and I can’t wait for you to hear it.”
Rodrigo has yet to drop tour dates behind GSIL, which will follow her momentous Guts World Tour that wrapped in August 2025 (the double LP Live at Glastonbury showcased her incredible year touring the festival circuit). On May 2, she’ll work double duty on Saturday Night Live.
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