She’s again! Olivia Rodrigo has returned with new music two years after dropping her Grammy-winning debut album Bitter. The singer marked the start of a brand new musical period with the discharge of “Vampire,” the lead single from her sophomore album Guts, due out September 8. (We’re sensing a bloody theme right here.) She additionally shared a music video directed by Petra Collins, who helmed her “brutal” and “good 4 u” visuals.
“For me, this album is about rising pains and making an attempt to determine who I’m at this level in my life,” Rodrigo mentioned in an announcement. “I really feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20—it was such an intense interval of awkwardness and alter. I believe that’s all only a pure a part of development, and hopefully the album displays that.”
“Vampire” is simply merely our first glimpse on the venture. It begins as a moody piano ballad earlier than it grows and swells; Rodrigo begins belting and the guitars begin shredding. With lyrics like “Bloodsucker, famefucker / Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire,” she sings of somebody who took benefit of her fame and performed along with her emotionally.
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“I used to be upset a few sure scenario and went to the studio alone and sat down on the grand piano, and the chords and melody and lyrics simply poured out of me—virtually like an out-of-body expertise,” Rodrigo mentioned in one other assertion. “It’s a track about feeling confused and damage, and at first I assumed it was meant to be a piano ballad. However when Dan and I began engaged on it, we juxtaposed the lyrics with these massive drums and loopy tempo adjustments. So now it’s like a heartbreak track you may dance to.”
Equating rising up with spilling your guts is an apt comparability for Rodrigo, whose debut album captured the uncooked struggles of adolescence, from the depth of breakups to navigating the treacherous territory of social media. The gripes of rising up had been much more excessive for the singer, who turned hypervisible in her late teenagers when she dropped her megahit “Drivers License” and have become the middle of romantic drama (involving her ex Joshua Bassett and his then-girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter). Rodrigo, now 20, has developed since then.
“I’m positively not as unhappy as I used to be after I wrote Bitter,” she advised ELLE.com again in March 2022. “I’m so excited to make my subsequent file and discover extra colours and textures and emotions and develop as a human being much more. I’m actually stoked for that.” And so are we.
Beneath, learn the complete lyrics to “Vampire.”
Hate to present the satisfaction asking the way you’re doing now
How’s the fortress constructed off folks you faux to care about
Simply what you wished
Have a look at you, cool man, you bought itI see the events and the diamonds typically after I shut my eyes
Six months of torture
That you simply offered as some forbidden paradise
I cherished you actually
Gotta snicker on the stupidityCuz I’ve made some actual massive errors
However you make the worst one look fantastic
I ought to’ve identified it was unusual
You solely come out at night time
I used to suppose i used to be good
However you made
Me look so naive
The way in which you offered me for components
As you sunk your enamel into me, oh
Bloodsucker, famefucker
Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampireEach lady I ever talked to advised me you had been unhealthy, unhealthy information
You known as them loopy god I hate the best way I known as them loopy too
You’re so convincing
How do you lie with out flinching
(How do you lie, how do you lie, how do you lie)Oh, what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, fucked up little thrill
Can’t work out simply the way you do it and god is aware of i by no means will
Went for me and never her
Cuz women your age know higherI’ve made some actual massive errors
However you make the worst one look fantastic
I ought to’ve identified it was unusualYou solely come out at night time
I used to suppose i used to be good
However you made me look so naive
The way in which you offered me for components
As you sunk your enamel into me, oh
Bloodsucker, famefucker
Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampireYou mentioned it was real love
However wouldn’t that be laborious
You’ll be able to’t love anybody
Cuz that will imply you had a coronary heart
I attempted you show you how to out
Now i do know that i can’t
Cuz the way you suppose’s the form of factor
I’ll by no means perceiveI’ve made some actual massive errors
However you make the worst one look fantastic
I ought to’ve identified it was unusual
You solely come out at night time
I used to suppose I used to be good
However you made me look so naive
The way in which you offered me for components
As you sunk your enamel into me, oh
Bloodsucker, famefucker
Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection on TV, films, music, books, and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 p.c likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.