Olivia Rodrigo Searches for ‘The Cure’ in New Video, Leaning Into a Decades-Long Obsession

The new Olivia Rodrigo video places her in a nurse’s uniform, searching for a cure for what look like broken hearts. 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 track, “The Cure,” is the second single from her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.

Rodrigo has never hidden her fixation on the band The Cure. Robert Smith joined her onstage at Glastonbury 2025 to play “Just Like Heaven” and “Friday I’m in Love.” In a British Vogue cover story, Smith revealed they stay in close contact and spent time recording 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,” he said. The lead single “Drop Dead” already worked in a reference: “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/And I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here.”

Rodrigo told Zane Lowe she let Smith hear several songs from the album but not that one. The album, out June 12 on Geffen Records, follows Guts and Sour. Its inspirations include the Sex and the City couple Miranda and Steve, a pairing she’s returned to enough times to watch every episode of the series three times. The Unraveled Tour begins this fall and now holds 86 dates across North America and Europe.