Olivia Rodrigo Releases New Single “the cure” From Third Album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

Olivia Rodrigo put out a new single, “the cure”, alongside details of her third studio album. The LP, titled you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, will be released on June 12 through Geffen Records. The track comes with an official video directed by Cat Solen and Jaime Gerin.

The clip was built inside a handmade cardboard hospital. Rodrigo moves through cold, sterile hallways, searching for an antidote to a broken heart. Lana Kim, Jett Steiger, and Brandon Robinson produced the video via Ways & Means.

Last month, Rodrigo issued the album’s first single, “drop dead”. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first artist to have the first three singles from each of her first three albums enter the chart at the top spot. That underlines the kind of commercial certainty she now brings to a release cycle.

Rodrigo has also announced The Unraveled Tour, which starts in September. Over a million tickets were sold globally, with extra dates added after demand spiked. In Brooklyn, the run expanded from four announced shows to a 10-night residency at Barclays Center. She set a venue performance record at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome with 10 dates, and at London’s O2 she is scheduled for 11 nights. That puts her alongside Prince, the Spice Girls, One Direction, Ariana Grande, Elton John, and Rihanna as one of the few acts to reach double-digit runs at the venue.

Rodrigo’s second album, GUTS, was described by Rolling Stone as “an instant classic”. Her debut, SOUR, spent a full year in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, the longest run for a debut album in that chart tier this century. The new single suggests she is working within a similar orbit, but with a specific visual language that leans into handmade surrealism instead of glossy pop conventions.