{"id":452439,"date":"2026-05-30T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452439\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:25:13","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-changed-her-new-album-after-her-rumored-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452439\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo Changed Her New Album After Her Rumored Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivia Rodrigo may have a good reason to be sad for a girl so in love. In a new interview with the New York Times\u2019 Popcast podcast<\/a>, the singer said she changed her upcoming new album<\/a>, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, by writing more breakup songs than intended and going back to make other tracks much sadder \u2014 and even \u201ccreepy.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hosts Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli revealed that Rodrigo\u2019s new album follows the narrative of a love story<\/a> that ends in ruins. True to form, Rodrigo didn\u2019t confirm her split from Louis Partridge, which has been rumored since December. However, she did say the tracklist reflected her real life, being separated<\/a> into two sides: \u201cgirl so in love\u201d and \u201cyou seem pretty sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the most part, it is chronological and in the order in which it happened in my life and it\u2019s the first time that\u2019s happened,\u201d she remarked. \u201cI write songs to process my feelings, so every day when I come and I sit at the piano or I go to the studio, it\u2019s like, \u2018What is burning in me to say right now?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She also said that the final product differed from her initial vision thanks to an unexpected wave of sadness, fueling breakup speculation further. \u201cAs someone who was very known for writing breakup songs and being angry and sad, I wanted to prove to myself that I didn\u2019t have to be miserable to write a song that I liked,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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However, even from the beginning, she wanted to embrace the most depressing aspects of love before that became a reality. \u201cI was always kind of curious about trying to mine these more depressing feelings out of these love songs,\u201d she said. \u201cI think initially, I thought that was what the record was going to be, just all love songs but trying to inject some sadness into them. And then obviously sadness in a real or more whole way crept its way into the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodrigo said she and her collaborator, Dan Nigro, wrote more traditional breakup songs towards the end of the creative process, which inspired them to reevaluate some of their happier fare that was created. \u201cWe had the fun challenge of going back and actually tweaking some of the love songs on the record and making them a little more honest and more sad and creepy,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

In fact, she said that \u201cHoneybee\u201d might be the saddest song on the record despite residing on the \u201cgirl so in love\u201d half. The album comes out on June 12, but maybe stock up on tissues now. <\/p>\n

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