Why Olivia Rodrigo isn’t afraid of heartbreak anymore | Interview

Why Olivia Rodrigo isn’t afraid of heartbreak anymore | Interview

Olivia Rodrigo chats with triple j’s Concetta and Luka about heartbreak, falling in love, and making her latest album ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’.

00:00 Intro
00:14 Feeling happy as a clam
01:04 Making ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’, changing musical tastes, and wanting to make a different kind of album to ‘SOUR’ and ‘GUTS’
01:27 Love for Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’
01:50 Why the bad parts are the most fun parts of yourself to show
01:59 Songwriting to dig into the “uglier, jealous, petty, sad, heartbroken parts” of who you are
02:18 ‘drop dead’ lyrics “one night I was bored in bed / and stalked you on the internet”
02:36 ‘honeybee’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘La La Land’, wanting to capture the feeling of an old Disney movie, and slow dancing
03:16 Why The Cure’s Robert Smith had to be her first collab (“There’s nobody cooler in the whole world”)
03:49 Unraveled Tour + Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival announce but no Australian show dates?? What’s the go?
04:13 Love for Australia & needing an Aussie brunch spot that stays open till 3.30pm
04:41 Concetta thanks Olivia for the album ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’
05:45 A message for anyone who’s scared of falling in love, or putting themselves out there, or being heartbroken