Following her double-duty pull on Saturday Night Live, Olivia Rodrigo has released “The Cure,” the second single from her third album.
In the video for the new track, Rodrigo features as a nurse attempting to find the cure for what appear to be broken hearts as she sings, “My head is full of poison, and my heart is full of doubt/I got toxins in my bloodstream and you tried hard to suck ’em out/And it feels like medication, and it’s good for me, I’m sure/But it don’t matter how your love feels anymore.”
The pop-punk princess has always admired the band of the same name, even having Robert Smith joined her onstage to perform “Just Like Heaven” and “Friday I’m in Love” at her Glastonbury 2025 set. In her British Vogue cover story, Smith revealed they keep in close contact, and had spent a few sessions in the studio together.
“Although most of the songs on [her first] two albums are not really ‘aimed at my demographic’(!), they are all so good that it is hard not to fall in love with them,” Smith told British Vogue. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Rodrigo said the Cure’s “Love Song” is one of her favorite songs ever.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love‘s lead single “Drop Dead” references the Cure with the lyrics, “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/And I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here.” She later told Zane Lowe she didn’t play the song for Smith, but let him hear several others from the record.
“The Cure” follows April’s “Drop Dead,” the record’s lead single. When discussing the album’s influences on The Tonight Show she mentioned that Sex and the City couple Miranda and Steve inspired several tracks. “I think I’ve watched every single episode maybe three times,” she said. “When Miranda and Steve are getting back together she’s crying and she’s like, ‘Steve, any time something funny happens, I just want to tell you.’ And I remember watching that and being like, ‘Oh my God, I have to write a song about this.’”
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, or GSIL as Livies have designated it, is out June 12 via Geffen Records. It follows her sophomore effort Guts and debut album Sour, released in 2023 and 2021, respectively. She’ll set out on the massive Unraveled Tour this fall, now spanning 86 dates across North America and Europe following increased demand.
