{"id":62662,"date":"2026-04-17T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/olivia-rodrigo-releases-new-single-drop-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:11:27","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-releases-new-single-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/olivia-rodrigo-releases-new-single-drop-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo Releases New Single &#8216;Drop Dead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The track is our first official glimpse of her upcoming album <em>You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/olivia-rodrigo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-rodrigo\" data-tag=\"olivia-rodrigo\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> is pining hard on \u201cDrop Dead,\u201d the lead single from her highly-anticipated album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-announces-new-album-you-seem-pretty-sad-1235531647\/\">You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cDrop Dead\u201d opens with fluttery synths, as Rodrigo sings, \u201cI know that the bar closes at 11\/I hope you never finish that beer.\u201d She references her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cure-robert-smith-olivia-rodrigo-friday-im-in-love-1235375272\/\">recent collaborator <\/a>Robert Smith, name-checking the Cure\u2019s \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d (\u201cYou know all the words to \u2018Just Like Heaven\u2019\/And I know why he wrote them now that you\u2019re standing right here\u201d) before the song erupts in blissful lines about falling in love with a dude on the internet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRodrigo <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW1iDmpgSz7\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>\u201cDrop Dead\u201d on April 7. Just like the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/You%20Seem%20Pretty%20Sad%20For%20a%20Girl%20So%20in%20Love,\" target=\"_blank\">lead-up<\/a> to the album reveal, she\u2019s been teasing the new track on Instagram, posting snippets of it on reels (one<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW7jNT0h2_s\/\" target=\"_blank\"> featured a photo<\/a> of several pints of Guinness with the sentence \u201cI hope you never finish that beer,\u201d while <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXF4RRPB6_Y\/\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a> featured Rodrigo riding on a train, with the words \u201cIt\u2019s feminine intuition\u201d). <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love<\/em>, which her fans have dubbed <em>GSIL<\/em>, arrives\u00a0June 12 via Geffen Records. It marks her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/olivia-rodrigo-phoebe-bridgers-gracie-albums-album-three-1235494392\/\">third album<\/a>, following 2023\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/olivia-rodrigo-guts-vampire-lyrics-meaning-1234819181\/\">Guts<\/a><\/em> and her smash 2021 debut, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/olivia-rodrigo-sour-review-1170714\/\">Sour<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cNo matter how hard I try to write love songs they always come out laced with a little melancholy,\u201d Rodrigo said upon announcing the new album. \u201cI am so proud of this record and I can\u2019t wait for you to hear it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRodrigo has yet to drop tour dates behind <em>GSIL<\/em>, which will follow her momentous <em>Guts<\/em> World Tour that wrapped in August 2025 (the double LP <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/olivia-rodrigo-live-at-glastonbury-review-1235478399\/\">Live at Glastonbury<\/a><\/em> showcased her incredible year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/pop-queens-are-rock-gods-olivia-rodrigo-charli-xcx-1235341269\/\">touring the festival circuit<\/a>). On May 2, she\u2019ll work double duty on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/olivia-rodrigo-matt-damon-will-ferrell-saturday-night-live-1235543644\/\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-new-song-drop-dead-1235543566\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The track is our first official glimpse of her upcoming album You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love Olivia Rodrigo is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}