Olivia Rodrigo is on the cover of DAZED. The singer is on the cover of the outlet’s “Action Issue” to promote her new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Highlights from the interview are below.

On the first single off the album, “drop dead”: “I wanted to capture that feeling of meeting someone you really like for the first time, and all of the excitement and nerves and anxiety that comes along with that.”

On whether it was challenging to write a more joyful love album: “For sure. That was the initial challenge of the album. Fiona Apple once said, ‘When I’m happy, why would I want to stop what I’m doing and sit down at the piano?’ which I think is funny and very true. But all of the best love songs or poems have an element of sadness or longing or fear in them. There’s even an element of anxiety in “drop dead” – like, ‘Oh God, I hope this person likes me.’ Even in our most joyous moments, there’s always this thought in the back of your head: ‘Is this gonna last forever?’ That’s the dichotomy of life. The scale is always balancing itself out.”

You can check out even more from the interview here. you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love drops on June 12.

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