Olivia Rodrigo is opening up about the meaning behind one of her new tracks.
The 23-year-old singer-songwriter dropped her new studio album on Friday (June 12), you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, including “stupid song.”
‘I was really inspired by this book Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux,” she revealed during a Popcast interview.
“She’s having this affair with this person and she’s not quite happy, she’s kind of going insane. Everything she does, she’s reminded of this person, the longing overcomes her. I was really inspired by all of the ways in which love makes you insane and miserable. I think that there’s a lot more to mine there than, ‘Yay, oh my God, he’s so hot, he loves me.’”
“I’m a thread on your shirt that is coming undone I feel right, I feel wrong, I feel totally insane / And I want you more than any stupid song could ever say,” she declares on the track.
She also performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and said of the track: “It means a lot to me. I think when you’re trying to like write about something that’s as deep and all-encompassing as romantic love, it’s just like every song feels a little bit frivolous. So, that was me trying to capture that.”
Listen to “stupid song”…
Read the lyrics to “stupid song”…
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