“So when you gonna tell her that we did that too?” she asks the guy as layered synth lines twinkle around her, “She thinks it’s special, but it’s all reused.”
The same could be said of the clever songwriting and production tricks Rodrigo repeats in “Deja Vu” — the way she makes a musical phrase of someone’s laughter (as she did with the chime of a car alarm in “Drivers License”), for instance, or her deployment of an unexpected swear word in the song’s bridge (à la the crucial F-bomb she dropped last time).
And anyway, “Deja Vu” — the second single, Rodrigo announced Thursday morning, from her debut album due May 21 — has plenty of its own beautifully rendered detail.
Co-written and produced by Dan Nigro, who also did “Drivers License,” the new single paints a vivid scene right from the get-go: “Car ride to Malibu / Strawberry ice cream, one spoon for two,” Rodrigo sings wistfully, “And trading jackets / Laughing ’bout how small it looks on you.”
She goes on to rhyme “Watching reruns of ‘Glee’” with “Being annoying, singing in harmony” — real theater-kid dream-weaving here — before making clear that these treasured memories are just part of a well-established pattern for her ex.
I bet that she knows Billy Joel
’Cause you played her “Uptown Girl”
You’re singing it together
I bet you even tell her
How you love her
In between the chorus and the verse
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Olivia Rodrigo reveals Pete Davidson is her ‘biggest celebrity crush’ after on her 18th birthday
Olivia Rodrigo is continuing to dominate the charts with her hit debut single Driver’s License, which recently claimed its 7th consecutive week atop the Billboard Hot 100.
Biggest crush: Olivia Rodrigo recently revealed that Pete Davidson is her ‘biggest celebrity crush,’ during a Tuesday interview with Radio.com (pictured in August, 2019)
The 18-year-old said: ‘Pete Davidson, who is my biggest celebrity crush, was singing it and comparing me to Taylor Swift, who is my idol like… it was just insane. It was my 18th birthday too, so it was just a crazy day.’
She wrote on Twitter at the time: ‘DRIVERS LICENSE SNL SKETCH IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER IM SHAKING’
It comes after Davidson, 27, faced scrutiny for briefly dating Kaia Gerber, 19, back in 2019, just weeks after her 18th birthday.
He’s also become infamous for his romantic flings with the likes of Kate Beckinsale, 47, and Margaret Qualley, 26, as well as his whirlwind engagement and subsequent split with Ariana Grande, 27.
Olivia Rodrigo Beats BTS’s Most Impressive Record On Billboard’s Global Chart
As The Weeknd makes a serious play for the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s ranking of the most popular songs in the world with not one, but two tracks, Olivia Rodrigo keeps him at bay with what is turning out to be the hottest single of the year. By holding him off and remaining atop the Billboard Global 200 yet again, the singer beats a record set not long ago by the biggest band on the planet.
Rodrigo is steady at No. 1 for a seventh week on the Billboard Global 200, the charting company’s weekly list of the most-consumed songs in the world, which looks at both sales and streaming metrics. She rules again with “Drivers License,” which has been the longest-running leader on the recently-established tally for a while, but now the woman behind the tune makes history on the new ranking (it was only introduced in mid-2020) in another manner.