April 21, 2026 • 9 mins
Olivia Rodrigo's new era has arrived. Listen back to the full interview with Ryan Seacrest and the "drop dead" songstress here to get all the deets on her new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And she's very punctual. Right to your live. Oh, Olivia
Rodrigo joining us in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rare to see you again, Ryan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
And fresh off at Coachella cameo.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, it was so fun.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
So Addison Ray on stage, you come out.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What is the moment like when you know what's about
to happen but nobody else knows what's about to happen
in the five four three two go moment?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh my gosh, I was really nervous.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I was very honored to be on stage with her.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I think her show is so incredible and she puts
on such a wonderful performance. So yeah, I just I
just wanted to do her proud. And that was just
what was kind of going on in my head.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So what is it about Coachella that makes every artist
want to do something really special and an artist that
could be a headline or do something like what you did?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't know. It's just really fun. It's like
in my backyard.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm born and raised in La and so it's like
all your friends are in the audience and you're like,
I just want to do something fun with my friends,
and people always bring their a game.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So yeah, it's a very fun, fun type of festival.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So when you think about this album and we don't
know everything about it yet, you seem pretty sad for
a girl so in love? Is this something like? What's
symbolic about that? What does that mean to you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean I started writing this album at a time
in my life where I was like experiencing real romantic
love for the first time, and so I was tasked
with writing an album full of love songs. And I
went back and I kind of listened to all of
my favorite love songs throughout history or throughout you know whatever,
my Spotify playlist that I love, and I realized that
the thing that I loved so much about them is
(01:32):
not that they were really happy, but they had sort
of an element of sadness or fear or melancholy or longing,
and that's what kind of made them tug at your
heart string so much, and that's what moved you so much.
And so that was kind of the thing that I
set out to do in this album, is I wanted
to make a sad love song.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So when I figured out this title, I was like,
it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's so interesting how we can yearn to feel that
emotion when we need to feel that emotion and really
like go deep into feeling sadness when you listen to
those sad songs. I have them on my list. I
know when I'm going to go there, what I'm going
to feel, and when when you conjure that emotion for
somebody else, what do you think about, Like, how does
that make you feel that you can get that out
(02:11):
of someone that you've never met before.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I mean, I think that's a great question. Well put,
I think that that's the dream. I mean, that's sort
of the primary goal in what I do. I just
always want to make people feel understood and hopefully like
provide some sort of catharsist or something. And all of
my favorite artists do that for me, and so I
guess that's the that's the guiding light through all of it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So a liver arrigo is here.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What is something that you think someone in their early
twenties who falls in love. What is a common mistake
you see looking back of someone that falls in love
in their early twenties?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
For example, Gosh, you really shouldn't ask me. I'm no expert.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I mean I think that's a common thing. When you're
like feeling really intensely for someone that you kind of
like get like like you don't because on your friendships
as much.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You don't focus on your work or whatever. And I
think that's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I mean it's a very very easy one, but I
think that's really important. I see me and my friends
sometimes fall into that trap and it just never ends well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So when you think, when you think about the music
that's coming out, what will you do when all of
these songs are released to the world at once?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Where will you be How will you see the feedback?
How will you look at the reaction?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Because it's such a you know it, we don't know it,
everyone's anticipating it. Is it sequential, what's the story, what's
the theme? Where does it go? What direction? So how
will you handle that moment?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Probably have a drink or something, I don't know. Yeah,
it's a really weird feeling.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, I've lived with the songs for so long
and I have my own opinions about them, like you know,
in my own brain, but putting them out into the world,
and even putting out this song dropped Dead out into
the world, and like seeing the way it reverberates with people.
It's a totally different feeling, and I don't know, it's scary,
But I'm so proud of the album and I love
so many of the songs and I feel really connected
to it. So, you know, I guess it's all you
(04:02):
can ask for at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What about Okay, we don't know that where the album
is going to go, but are there more songs inspired
by vulnerability or the other side the healing aspect.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, the
album's really there's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's hard to like encapsulate it in like one word
or like one specific feeling. It's very all over the
place in a way that I like, like a journey.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, there's just so much to unpack in it, And
I don't know. I think it was about like discovery.
I guess for me, like like, uh, discovering so many
things about myself and also just being in a real relationship.
I think, like a good relationship really holds a mirror
to you and like shows you parts of yourself that
you never would have been able to see before.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So yeah, there's a lot of a lot of looking
in word.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I guess that's important in your job.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, yes, we're going to take a break with Olivia Rodrigo.
Come back here. What two point seven Kiss FM. I'm
in the three two three next. You know what that means?
Since you grew up around here to pay a bill
I kiss hang on kiss FM.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
There it is here she is on kiss drop dead.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
You know what's so interesting about a song listening to
that song, the lyrics and the songs that we've played
for over the years, is when you can put into
words succinctly a feeling somebody's having, and especially with some
clever stuff like they're just like haven the Cure reference right,
like you know what you're trying to say, but you
can actually say it. Wee a lot we don't. We
(05:36):
can't say things like that, but we can think we
feel it. You can put it into words. It's a
magic power to that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh thanks, yeah, I mean it's from what I'm always
trying to do.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I just just wrote the song about like a really
wonderful first date, and every time I listen to it,
I just like think back to that, that wonderful feeling,
and uh yeah, it's a little bit a time capsule.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's great and.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Can can one? I asked this to the group. Can
one maintain the level of excitement for the first date on?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I mean, that's the goal. I just love knowing that
Olivia Rodrigo stock someone on the internet.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Before our first date.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Kid, Yeah, I did that before every first date, and
so I go, bag, yeah you do.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So you think it's important to know as much as
you can.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I guess I guess, yeah, you just you can find
a lot of stuff. Yes, I guess there's such a
thing as going too deep. I've definitely like been saying.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You could go too deep and then you can't go
back from that.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I've been on like dates with people they're like, oh,
and my mom did this, and I'm like, I totally
know exactly like what their mom does.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We're like everything, and I'm like trying to pretend like
I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's what I was going to ask you, Like, if
you know that you love horses and then you say
I love horses, do you pretend like, oh, I mean,
do you have to you have to act like you
don't know something that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Say I know?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think my worst one is I like stock someone
on Spotify once and then like at the date, I
was like, oh my god, I love this song, Like
have you ever heard of it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
That was that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was not good, I mean not genuine.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They say in life for success, you must prepare and
everything you do, and that is total preparation for success on.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The date or in the relationship. Power and ye, shame
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's kiss FM s christ with you, Olivia Rodrigou.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Here is there anything that like, is there a track
and you able to tell us what it is? Maybe
you can, but is there a track that is on
the album that you thought it's too vulnerable to put
on or too close? It's like the combination to the
whole lock and you said, you know, I'm gonna do
it anyway.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, there's a few songs. I mean, it's it's just
a weird feeling. I mean, I I got into songwriting
just because I loved the way it made me feel
to express my emotions and it felt like Catharsis and
it felt like it just helped me process stuff. But
then it like it's a different feeling putting it out
and you're like, oh this stuff that you know, I
got to process on my own at my piano.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now it's suddenly everyone else is. It's definitely a weird feeling.
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I guess I'm I guess I'm getting used with older
that I get, and I think that it's important to
be vulnerable. I think I would hate to put out
a song that felt, you know, like I wasn't digging
that deep. But I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
When you think about the fame, the success, you know,
you're well known, people love your music, they know who
you are, do you think about things you want to
make sure you keep unchanged no matter how that evolves
with you, because it's not normal.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's not easy for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I mean, I think it gets harder to even make
music the more kind of well known you get, and
you kind of start to let people's opinions infiltrate and
you're subconscious whether or not you're aware of it or not.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And so I think that's been something that I've been
really trying to protect.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Is like the sanctity of like, you know, me just
sitting in my room and writing a song. You know,
there's something really beautiful and magical about that, and you know,
it's something to something to protect the pure like childlike.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Love of music, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So the new song is out now. The new album,
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
is out June twelfth. Very exciting. Thank you so much
for coming. It's great to see you and your kindness.
We just love it. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, thanks Ryan, Thanks you guys were so funing with you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Thank you for
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Coming in Up next your tickets to go
And she's very punctual. Right to your live. Oh, Olivia
Rodrigo joining us in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rare to see you again, Ryan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
And fresh off at Coachella cameo.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, it was so fun.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
So Addison Ray on stage, you come out.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What is the moment like when you know what's about
to happen but nobody else knows what's about to happen
in the five four three two go moment?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh my gosh, I was really nervous.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I was very honored to be on stage with her.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I think her show is so incredible and she puts
on such a wonderful performance. So yeah, I just I
just wanted to do her proud. And that was just
what was kind of going on in my head.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So what is it about Coachella that makes every artist
want to do something really special and an artist that
could be a headline or do something like what you did?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't know. It's just really fun. It's like
in my backyard.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm born and raised in La and so it's like
all your friends are in the audience and you're like,
I just want to do something fun with my friends,
and people always bring their a game.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So yeah, it's a very fun, fun type of festival.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So when you think about this album and we don't
know everything about it yet, you seem pretty sad for
a girl so in love? Is this something like? What's
symbolic about that? What does that mean to you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean I started writing this album at a time
in my life where I was like experiencing real romantic
love for the first time, and so I was tasked
with writing an album full of love songs. And I
went back and I kind of listened to all of
my favorite love songs throughout history or throughout you know whatever,
my Spotify playlist that I love, and I realized that
the thing that I loved so much about them is
(01:32):
not that they were really happy, but they had sort
of an element of sadness or fear or melancholy or longing,
and that's what kind of made them tug at your
heart string so much, and that's what moved you so much.
And so that was kind of the thing that I
set out to do in this album, is I wanted
to make a sad love song.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So when I figured out this title, I was like,
it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's so interesting how we can yearn to feel that
emotion when we need to feel that emotion and really
like go deep into feeling sadness when you listen to
those sad songs. I have them on my list. I
know when I'm going to go there, what I'm going
to feel, and when when you conjure that emotion for
somebody else, what do you think about, Like, how does
that make you feel that you can get that out
(02:11):
of someone that you've never met before.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I mean, I think that's a great question. Well put,
I think that that's the dream. I mean, that's sort
of the primary goal in what I do. I just
always want to make people feel understood and hopefully like
provide some sort of catharsist or something. And all of
my favorite artists do that for me, and so I
guess that's the that's the guiding light through all of it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So a liver arrigo is here.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What is something that you think someone in their early
twenties who falls in love. What is a common mistake
you see looking back of someone that falls in love
in their early twenties?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
For example, Gosh, you really shouldn't ask me. I'm no expert.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I mean I think that's a common thing. When you're
like feeling really intensely for someone that you kind of
like get like like you don't because on your friendships
as much.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You don't focus on your work or whatever. And I
think that's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I mean it's a very very easy one, but I
think that's really important. I see me and my friends
sometimes fall into that trap and it just never ends well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So when you think, when you think about the music
that's coming out, what will you do when all of
these songs are released to the world at once?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Where will you be How will you see the feedback?
How will you look at the reaction?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Because it's such a you know it, we don't know it,
everyone's anticipating it. Is it sequential, what's the story, what's
the theme? Where does it go? What direction? So how
will you handle that moment?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Probably have a drink or something, I don't know. Yeah,
it's a really weird feeling.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, I've lived with the songs for so long
and I have my own opinions about them, like you know,
in my own brain, but putting them out into the world,
and even putting out this song dropped Dead out into
the world, and like seeing the way it reverberates with people.
It's a totally different feeling, and I don't know, it's scary,
But I'm so proud of the album and I love
so many of the songs and I feel really connected
to it. So, you know, I guess it's all you
(04:02):
can ask for at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What about Okay, we don't know that where the album
is going to go, but are there more songs inspired
by vulnerability or the other side the healing aspect.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, the
album's really there's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's hard to like encapsulate it in like one word
or like one specific feeling. It's very all over the
place in a way that I like, like a journey.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, there's just so much to unpack in it, And
I don't know. I think it was about like discovery.
I guess for me, like like, uh, discovering so many
things about myself and also just being in a real relationship.
I think, like a good relationship really holds a mirror
to you and like shows you parts of yourself that
you never would have been able to see before.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So yeah, there's a lot of a lot of looking
in word.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I guess that's important in your job.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, yes, we're going to take a break with Olivia Rodrigo.
Come back here. What two point seven Kiss FM. I'm
in the three two three next. You know what that means?
Since you grew up around here to pay a bill
I kiss hang on kiss FM.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
There it is here she is on kiss drop dead.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
You know what's so interesting about a song listening to
that song, the lyrics and the songs that we've played
for over the years, is when you can put into
words succinctly a feeling somebody's having, and especially with some
clever stuff like they're just like haven the Cure reference right,
like you know what you're trying to say, but you
can actually say it. Wee a lot we don't. We
(05:36):
can't say things like that, but we can think we
feel it. You can put it into words. It's a
magic power to that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh thanks, yeah, I mean it's from what I'm always
trying to do.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I just just wrote the song about like a really
wonderful first date, and every time I listen to it,
I just like think back to that, that wonderful feeling,
and uh yeah, it's a little bit a time capsule.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's great and.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Can can one? I asked this to the group. Can
one maintain the level of excitement for the first date on?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I mean, that's the goal. I just love knowing that
Olivia Rodrigo stock someone on the internet.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Before our first date.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Kid, Yeah, I did that before every first date, and
so I go, bag, yeah you do.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So you think it's important to know as much as
you can.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I guess I guess, yeah, you just you can find
a lot of stuff. Yes, I guess there's such a
thing as going too deep. I've definitely like been saying.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You could go too deep and then you can't go
back from that.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I've been on like dates with people they're like, oh,
and my mom did this, and I'm like, I totally
know exactly like what their mom does.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We're like everything, and I'm like trying to pretend like
I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's what I was going to ask you, Like, if
you know that you love horses and then you say
I love horses, do you pretend like, oh, I mean,
do you have to you have to act like you
don't know something that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Say I know?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think my worst one is I like stock someone
on Spotify once and then like at the date, I
was like, oh my god, I love this song, Like
have you ever heard of it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
That was that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was not good, I mean not genuine.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They say in life for success, you must prepare and
everything you do, and that is total preparation for success on.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The date or in the relationship. Power and ye, shame
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It's kiss FM s christ with you, Olivia Rodrigou.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Here is there anything that like, is there a track
and you able to tell us what it is? Maybe
you can, but is there a track that is on
the album that you thought it's too vulnerable to put
on or too close? It's like the combination to the
whole lock and you said, you know, I'm gonna do
it anyway.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, there's a few songs. I mean, it's it's just
a weird feeling. I mean, I I got into songwriting
just because I loved the way it made me feel
to express my emotions and it felt like Catharsis and
it felt like it just helped me process stuff. But
then it like it's a different feeling putting it out
and you're like, oh this stuff that you know, I
got to process on my own at my piano.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now it's suddenly everyone else is. It's definitely a weird feeling.
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I guess I'm I guess I'm getting used with older
that I get, and I think that it's important to
be vulnerable. I think I would hate to put out
a song that felt, you know, like I wasn't digging
that deep. But I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
When you think about the fame, the success, you know,
you're well known, people love your music, they know who
you are, do you think about things you want to
make sure you keep unchanged no matter how that evolves
with you, because it's not normal.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's not easy for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I mean, I think it gets harder to even make
music the more kind of well known you get, and
you kind of start to let people's opinions infiltrate and
you're subconscious whether or not you're aware of it or not.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And so I think that's been something that I've been
really trying to protect.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Is like the sanctity of like, you know, me just
sitting in my room and writing a song. You know,
there's something really beautiful and magical about that, and you know,
it's something to something to protect the pure like childlike.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Love of music, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So the new song is out now. The new album,
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
is out June twelfth. Very exciting. Thank you so much
for coming. It's great to see you and your kindness.
We just love it. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, thanks Ryan, Thanks you guys were so funing with you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Thank you for
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Coming in Up next your tickets to go
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