The star takes the long way down as she falls in and out of love on her third studio LP.
Olivia Rodrigo
Nick Walker
Olivia Rodrigo covers a lot of ground on new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which dropped Friday (June 12).
Beyond making good on the promise that her third LP would feature “sad love songs,” the pop star saves more space than you’d think for a number of exuberant pop anthems, making for some of the project’s best moments. Either the soaring “Stupid Song” or summery “U + Me = <3,” for instance, could easily follow the equally joyous Billboard Hot 100-topping “Drop Dead” and “The Cure” as You Seem Pretty Sad‘s next single. The album also unexpectedly veers past its central idea of struggles taking place within a relationship into full-on breakup territory at the end, as detailed in the finale, “Cigarette Smoke.”
