Olivia Rodrigo

I think that's why it's so important.

Like some of my friends are like, well, I'm not going to marry them.

Like, why would I, you know, be in this relationship with them?

I'm like that.

It's like the way that you know yourself the most in this world.

Like you could, you know yourself so deeply and so intimately by like,

falling for people and being raw and gross and like making mistakes and I think that that's such a thing that's unique to being in a romantic relationship and so I think I was also figuring that out I think I was in a romantic relationship that was actually real and intimate for the first time and being like whoa this is holding a mirror to me and I'm seeing shit that I don't like about myself and that was a tough realization and I think that that's embedded in the cure too and um yeah I I really I really love this song it's one of my favorite songs I've ever written I think it's um yeah

Also, in the context of the album, you know, where it sits, you know, just after the middle, but it's long, you're lingering on it.

It's like, it's like you're, you're telegraphing something just simply by saying, you're gonna have to sit with this for five or six minutes.

Like, it's like, that's, you're coding the meaning in the lyrics, but you're also coding in the structure, it feels like.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's sort of like the apex of the album too.

Like I think in all the love songs leading up to it, like there's a hint of like maybe this or dissatisfaction or like, oh, I really miss them and that's why I'm sad or blah, blah, blah.

And I think when it gets to the cure, it's like the most honest part where like all the artifice is stripped away.

And it's, I love a song, obviously, I mean, I don't know,

Love writing like a power ballad that like really builds.

But like when I finished listening to it, it feels like it's some sort of like catharsis or like some sort of acceptance of like that this is your fate.

How do you know as a songwriter when something is worth writing a song about?

And especially, I mean, look, I haven't been in my 20s for at least a few years, four or five years.