{"id":358876,"date":"2026-03-22T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:36:08","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-says-experimental-new-album-is-full-of-sad-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358876\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo says “experimental” new album is full of “sad love songs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> has teased that her \u201cexperimental\u201d new album will be full of \u201csad love songs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speculation has been mounting this week that the singer is gearing up to release\u00a0new music, with\u00a0cryptic pink album teasers having been discovered by fans in Los Angeles and London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo released her last album \u2018Guts<\/a>\u2019 in 2023, itself the follow-up to her critically acclaimed breakthrough record \u2018Sour<\/a>\u2019 two years earlier. Since then, she has played countless huge headline shows, including her\u00a0Pyramid Stage headline set at Glastonbury 2025<\/a>, where she brought out The Cure<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Robert Smith<\/a>\u00a0as a special guest.<\/p>\n

The singer has now been interviewed in the new edition of\u00a0British Vogue<\/a>, with the feature describing what they have heard of the new record as Rodrigo at her \u201cmost experimental\u201d, with one track being labelled as \u201csmooth, trippy soft rock\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo herself told the publication that the album consists\u00a0of \u201csad love songs\u201d,\u00a0adding: \u201cI\u00a0realised\u00a0all my\u00a0favourite\u00a0romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0found a lot of inspiration from being in London,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0spent so much time here over the course of making this album. It has a lot of songs that are London vibes, about experiences that\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0had here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a creative challenge to write from a joyful place. When\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0experiencing that\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0connected to someone, or feeling\u00a0really good,\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0not in your head thinking about bittersweet poems!\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for Rodrigo\u2019s extended stays in London can be attributed to her relationship with the British actor Louis Partridge, known for House Of Guinness and Enola Holmes.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the\u00a0British Vogue\u00a0piece,\u00a0Robert Smith\u00a0opened up\u00a0about his relationship with Rodrigo<\/a>, revealing that he became a fan after hearing her breakout single \u2018Drivers License\u2019, and went on to buy both \u2018Sour\u2019 and \u2018Guts\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough most of the songs on those two albums are not really \u2018aimed at my demographic\u2019, they are all so good that it is hard not to fall in love with them,\u201d Smith wrote in the piece.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that the two artists had\u00a0remained\u00a0friends since their live team-up at\u00a0Glastonbury, and\u00a0hinted at a potential upcoming collaboration.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe calls me up quite a bit to talk about clothes and fashion \u2013 and we\u00a0have enjoyed\u00a0a couple of memorable nights in the studio together,\u201d Smith continued. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to hear what she does next!\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0Rodrigo released her live duets with Smith as part of her \u2018Live From Glastonbury 2025\u2019 album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to her love of The Cure, Rodrigo\u00a0said in December that\u00a0she has recently found inspiration<\/a>\u00a0from the likes of\u00a0New Order<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Joy Division<\/a>, as well as\u00a0The White Stripes <\/a>and Bikini Kill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before then, she said in 2023 that she had been\u00a0to watch The Cure and Depeche Mode live with her dad<\/a>, and added that her parents were\u00a0mainly into\u00a0\u201cgrunge, rock and alternative\u201d music when she was growing up, which rubbed off on her.<\/p>\n

During a conversation with\u00a0NME\u00a0in 2021<\/a>, Rodrigo said both her mother and father were \u201cmusic heads\u201d and had encouraged their daughter\u2019s artistic\u00a0endeavours\u00a0from an early age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music,\u201d she explained at the time. \u201cI think, honestly, you can see little influences of\u00a0all of\u00a0those genres in my [debut] album [\u2018Sour\u2019].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo has teased that her \u201cexperimental\u201d new album will be full of \u201csad love songs\u201d. Speculation has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,641],"class_list":["post-358876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}