Olivia Rodrigo says her upcoming single The Cure is not only her favourite track on her new album – it’s one of her favourite songs she’s ever made.
The pop star is set to drop the second track from You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love on Friday (22.05.26).
She excitedly announced on Instagram alongside the cover art: “‘the cure’ comes out this friday. it’s my favorite song on the album and one of my favorite songs I’ve ever made. couldn’t be more excited for you guys to hear it. presave up now (sic).”
It marks the second single from the follow-up to 2023’s Guts, following April’s Drop Dead.
Olivia drew heavily on the feelings of “jealousy” and “longing” in her first “big girl relationship” for her new album.
The 23-year-old singer – who was recently romantically linked with Geese frontman Cameron Winter, months after her two-year relationship with Louis Partridge was reported to have come to an end – revealed her third LP is “experimental” and features a number of “sad love songs”.
Speaking to Audacy Check In, she said: “I think the challenge for me was to write songs about romantic love positively.
“I think when I set out to write this album, I was really in love – sort of my first ‘big girl’ relationship – [and] writing a song about happiness is a lot harder than writing a song about heartbreak.
“It was sort of challenging myself to make a love song and also talk about some of the more negative feelings that go along with being in romantic relationships, like longing and yearning and jealousy and missing your partner when they’re away.”
The title of the record came from a conversation Olivia was having with her producer, Dan Nigro.
She explained: “I was having a conversation with my producer Dan about something and he was like, ‘Oh, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,’ just in conversation.
“I was like ‘That’s it. That’s gonna be the album title.’ I’m really happy with it. It really captures, I think, the entire thesis statement of what I was trying to do.”
Olivia will release You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love on June 12.
Before the record was announced, the Good 4 U singer admitted she was drawn to “sad love songs”.
She told Britain’s Vogue magazine: “I realised all my favourite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them.
“I felt a similar way about falling in love, that the second I’m in a really great relationship, I’m gonna start feeling good about myself, and this stuff is going to fall into place. But it just doesn’t work like that.”