![]() ![]() I’m really excited for the live show - I feel like the album is shaping up to be a really fun set. It’s hard to imagine how cathartic this one is going to feel for you when you first perform it live. So it was a very therapeutic experience, writing this song. ![]() ![]() I go to songwriting to get those feelings out that aren’t super comfortable to express in everyday life. That was something that was just really bubbling inside of me - it’s kind of an angry song, and I think I have a lot of trouble expressing feelings like anger and regret, those are particularly tough ones for me to express. And I think that’s a common feeling, whether or not someone’s famous. I think it’s just a song about feeling used, and all of the anger and regret and heartbreak that comes with it. Where did those themes come from? Had they been rattling around in your mind for a while? I’m curious about the messaging of the song - your take on someone using you, and leeching off of your fame. And so I really liked it for that, and it was always one of my favorites. I think as the album was coming together, we were coming up with a bunch of songs that we really liked, but this one always stuck out to me as something that I felt like was honoring my singer-songwriter roots, but felt like an evolution - in a good way that wasn’t too stark. We always said that it was kind of our version of a rock opera. At what point did it become obvious that this would be the lead single? I love how the song opens up after the first chorus into this huge, multi-part, theatrical statement. But I’m really happy with the way it came out. It was quite a long production - it’s pretty lush, so it took us a while. And I took it to my producer Dan, and we finished it up together and rewrote some things and produced it. I remember writing it and feeling like something special was there. Olivia Rodrigo: I wrote it on the piano, the original version, in December of last year, and I really liked it. note: this interview has been edited for clarity.)īillboard: How did “Vampire” come together? “I just feel really lucky to have so much support coming from all angles.” Below, Rodrigo explains how the song became her new single, and the period of growth she experienced since Sour that will inform GUTS. “Putting out a new song is a little bit daunting, but ultimately really exciting,” Rodrigo says. It sounds purposely huge, and like it’s about to be inescapable. “Vampire” represents a go-for-the-gusto pop statement that both pushes Rodrigo’s songwriting forward while also providing plenty for Sour fans. Created with her main Sour collaborator, writer-producer Daniel Nigro, “Vampire” begins as a betrayal-strewn piano ballad in the vein of “Drivers License,” but then busts open into a pop-rock epic full of jittery percussion and wounded, dramatic vocal runs - something like My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade, refracted through a generation raised on Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. ![]()
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