Olivia Rodrigo debuted a new track, ‘Begged’, during her stint as musical guest and host of Saturday Night Live. Check it out below.
Rodrigo appeared on the show last night (May 2), where she briefly joked about her Disney Channel beginnings on Bizaardvark and her former co-star Jake Paul, as well as giving a musical parody of ‘drivers license’.
For her first musical performance of the night, she played her latest single ‘drop dead’, with Debbie Harry of Blondie introducing her to the stage.
Then, Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie introduced her second song, which turned out to be ‘begged’, an unreleased track from her upcoming third studio album ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’, which comes out on June 12 via Geffen.
She’d previously debuted the track – which features Weyes Blood on backing vocals – during an intimate, phone-free show in LA, while she had described it as “karaokable if you’re sad.”
Rodrigo performed the song seated on a swing, nodding to the cover art for the upcoming album. Check out both songs below.
Rodrigo’s new album is the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Guts’ and is expected to be both “experimental” and full of “sad love songs”.
Recently, Rodrigo shared more insight into what to expect from her new album, saying it is centred around the feelings of “jealousy” and “longing” that arose from her first “big girl relationship”. So far, she has only dropped one track, the lead single ‘Drop Dead’.
She broke the song out live during Addison Rae’s set at Coachella and later performed it at a surprise appearance at a New York City open mic event.
Since then, she’s sparked rumours of a collaboration with Geese frontman Cameron Winter after they were seen together at a restaurant.
Rodrigo has also cited The Cure, New Order, Joy Division, The White Stripes and Bikini Kill as sources of inspiration for the new music, and announced a massive 2026 and 2027 tour, which includes four nights at The O2 in London.
In other news, Rodrigo is the latest artist to appear on the front of the Barcelona FC jersey, which the team will wear as they go head-to-head with Real Madrid later this month.
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