{"id":475275,"date":"2026-06-13T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475275\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:43:15","slug":"you-seem-pretty-sad-for-a-girl-so-in-love-48-thoughts-i-had-while-listening-to-olivia-rodrigos-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475275\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love\u2019: 48 Thoughts I Had While Listening to Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I\u2019ve developed a level of attachment to Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s first two albums\u20142021\u2019s Sour<\/a> and 2023\u2019s Guts<\/a>\u2014that feels a little dissonant, given that I am almost 33 years of age and Rodrigo\u2019s debut came out when she was quite literally 18. Maybe it\u2019s a classic case of arrested development, but nothing has ever felt more healing than screaming along to \u201cGood 4 U\u201d as I drove around Austin after a breakup five years ago, and if I\u2019m being honest, I still play \u201cBad Idea Right?\u201d pretty much every time I send a text that I probably shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So how does Rodrigo\u2019s third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, stand up to its predecessors? Below, quite literally every thought I had during my inaugural listen.<\/p>\n

Oh, the tiny, Gen Z-pink font opening the video for \u201cDrop Dead\u201d<\/a>!Or is Rodrigo actually some younger-than-Gen-Z micro-generation I\u2019m too old and chopped to even have heard of?Where in America do bars close at 11 p.m.?College towns, I guess.I love Rodrigo\u2019s synth-pop era.Not to mention her triumphant revival of the babydoll dress<\/a>, about which I will hear no evil.If more pop stars referenced Hole-era Courtney Love<\/a>, I genuinely believe this world would be a better place.A Pisces and a Gemini\u2026IDK about that one, diva.Then again, I am a Cancer who dated a Virgo<\/a> for almost four years, so what do I know?Emerging from a basement apartment in a hoodie with the hood up\u2026that\u2019s so New York.I love when Rodrigo gets sad about how cool other women are, because there\u2019s no trace of pick-me-ism in her complaints\u2026they\u2019re just relatable.It\u2019s all so very Jolene!Balletcore<\/a> plus pajamas is very Lily-Rose Depp and 070 Shake<\/a> to me.Why no video for \u201cHoneybee\u201d<\/a>?\u2026yet, I suppose.Eh, not wild about this track.Okay, I\u2019m back in on \u201cMaggots for Brains.\u201d<\/a>I simply cannot wait to blast this one in my car at a neighbor-angering volume as I pull out of my garage.\u201cI\u2019m a zombie in my body\u201d\u2026well, exactly!Letting-fruit-go-moldy-in-your-fridge-due-to-depression representation in these lyrics.For that matter, I need to hurry up and finish this story so I can go puree and freeze the pound of strawberries in my fridge before they officially turn on me.Loving the opening riff of \u201cU+Me=<3\u201d<\/a>Also, glad to know the <3 emoticon lives on with the younger generation!Rodrigo is so right about Cadbury being the most romantic candy.Hear me out: American candy is too sugary, Swiss chocolate is too fancy\u2026British treats are where it\u2019s at.This song is sort of giving P.S. Eliot<\/a> in a way I adore.Am I deeply washed for hoping that \u201cMy Way\u201d<\/a> would be a cover of the Frank Sinatra song?We need to simply say \u201cYou\u2019re being fucking weird\u201d to our opps more often, even if it\u2019s in the middle of a pop song.\u201cPurple\u201d<\/a> also not doing it for me, sorry.\u201cThe Cure\u201d<\/a> shares musical DNA with \u201cPretty Girls\u201d\u201d by Rene\u00e9 Rapp<\/a>, albeit with less lesbian subtext.This cutesy syringe graphic\u2026\u201cUsed to play a game in my head when I\u2019d date a guy \/ Tally up the girls that he fucked \u2019til I start to cry.\u201dAn eminently relatable diva!Damn, Rodrigo looks insanely beautiful in an old-timey nurse\u2019s outfit.This shot of what looks like Twizzlers coming out of her fingers\u2026cool yet weird.Okay, here for the low-energy banger that is \u201cBegged.\u201d<\/a>\u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Me\u201d<\/a> is inexplicably making my dog howl.Are there siren sounds in it I\u2019m not hearing?All right, \u201cLess\u201d<\/a> is too low-energy.Ooh, \u201cExpectations\u201d<\/a> won me back.So \u201980s-movie-soundtrack!\u201cI won\u2019t settle for a guy with a fake job\u201d\u2026from your lips to God\u2019s ears, Liv.I was literally about to write \u201cThis song is clearly written by a woman who\u2019s been dating men in LA,\u201d and then Rodrigo sang: \u201cDon\u2019t think my future husband\u2019s at this bar in Silver Lake.\u201dYou said it, sister.Okay, this high-dating-expectations anthem officially rocks.\u201cCigarette Smoke\u201d<\/a> is just okay to me.Overall, I\u2019d have to say my top plays on You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love are \u201cExpectations\u201d and \u201cMaggots for Brains.\u201dNot quite a total slay of a third album, but\u2026I love it anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the years, I\u2019ve developed a level of attachment to Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s first two albums\u20142021\u2019s Sour and 2023\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,3875],"class_list":["post-475275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olivia-rodrigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}