- Olivia Rodrigo is British Vogue’s latest cover star.
- She teased three tracks from her upcoming highly anticipated third album, which fans have called OR3.
- One of the tracks was inspired by Miranda and Steve’s relationship on Sex and the City.
Olivia Rodrigo has officially joined the line of pop girlies who have found a muse in HBO’s Sex and the City, and with its current revival among Gen Z, who can even blame her?
The Grammy winner finally gave her dedicated Livies a taste of what’s to come on her highly anticipated third album, which they’ve collectively deemed as OR3, during her April 2026 cover story interview with British Vogue.
According to the mag, the name of Olivia’s third album has yet to be revealed, but focuses on “the obsession and anxiety” that surrounds romance. In an email, Liv revealed that the project is full of “sad love songs,” adding, “I realized all my favourite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them.”
While playing the opening track—which is described as “smooth, trippy soft rock” with lyrics about finding the man of your dreams—she dished, “The person that the song is about is great.”
The writer noted that another “dreamy” and “hazy” song detailed the “withdrawal symptoms of separation” in a relationship. Olivia revealed the track was inspired by Miranda Hobbes and Steve Brady’s on-again, off-again romance on Sex and the City.
More specifically, the singer-songwriter was inspired by a scene in season 2, episode 18, where Miranda reunited with Steve, who was her ex at the time, and said, “Whenever something funny happens, I always want to tell you about it.”
O-Rod then played a third song, which includes orchestral strings, and admits it’s “what I think being in love feels like.”
“You’re getting to the core of all of your issues: how you feel about yourself, your insecurities, what makes you joyful,” Olivia said of the third song. “It feels like the most raw form of you, which is so scary and terrifying and uncomfortable, sometimes, but beautiful at times.”
While the names of each song—let alone OR3—haven’t been revealed, Olivia previously let Cosmopolitanin on her creative process for the album.
“On tour, it’s actually really difficult for me to write songs. I have so many friends who can grab their guitar in any random dressing room and write a great song, but I’ve just never been that way,” she explained in October 2025.
She added, “I always find that I’m the most inspired when I can be at home and feel really grounded and comfortable in my surroundings.”
“I didn’t write a ton of stuff that I think will make it into the world while I was on tour,” she added. “I love writing to get my thoughts out, but I’m not sure any of it was really good. I’ve really been doing most of the meat and potatoes in my writing at my house in L.A.”
Well, if you need us, we’ll be spiraling over these tidbits until Olivia drops her lead single.
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