Olivia Rodrigo

You're getting maybe a little talking heads.

I wrote Devo down at one point.

Some new order.

Yeah, a little New York.

But what does that sound and style signal to you that the pop punk and the sort of chords that you've been playing with previously don't signal?

Yeah, it just felt more exciting.

There was something about the restraint of it that felt nicer.

I was just really obsessed with that type of music, too, while I was making it.

I did Glastonbury with Robert Smith, which was insane.

I don't care about you, it's Friday

I'd always been a fan of The Cure, but like since meeting him and like getting to hang out with him, I like kind of went back and listened to all those like new wave bands like that.

And I was living in England at the time.

So obviously you get a lot of like English band inspo.

For me in songwriting, the sentiment always comes first.

And so I knew that I wanted to write songs about how it felt to be in love.

And love feels like that to me.

It kind of feels like that vibe, like that, that just the emotional quality of it.

I can't describe it.

It's just like, that's, that's how it felt.

It didn't feel like, you know what I mean?