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Courtesy of THE LEDE COMPANY Olivia Rodrigo is pining hard on “Drop Dead,” the lead single from her highly-anticipated album You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love.
“Drop Dead” opens with fluttery synths, as Rodrigo sings, “I know that the bar closes at 11/I hope you never finish that beer.” She references her recent collaborator Robert Smith, name-checking the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” (“You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/And I know why he wrote them now that you’re standing right here”) before the song erupts in blissful lines about falling in love with a dude on the internet.
In the video above, she parades around Versailles in Paris, shredding the guitar with headphones on. “You lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles,” she sings. “The most alive I’ve ever been.”
On Instagram, Rodrigo wrote, “I love this song so much!!! It’s the first chapter in the story of ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ and it makes me wanna skip around and roll the windows down and make out!”
Rodrigo announced “Drop Dead” on April 7. Just like the lead-up to the album reveal, she’s been teasing the new track on Instagram, posting snippets of it on reels (one featured a photo of several pints of Guinness with the lyrics “I hope you never finish that beer,” while another featured Rodrigo riding on a train, with the line “It’s feminine intuition”).
