The new Olivia Rodrigo album is fast approaching—June 12, if you didn't know—and that means we're about to get a whole new treasure trove of lyrics to pore over. Olivia is known for her devastating verses, and this album will be no different. On the first single, "drop dead," she sings about having a crush in the most visceral way, "If you let me stay the night, well, I think I might just have to stay forever." Yeah, we're in for a roller coaster and a gut punch.
Below, Cosmo staffers share the lyrics they're still thinking about years later.
"And now every time a siren sounds, I wonder if you’re around, because you know I’d do it all again."
"It’s like Shakespeare.” — Corinne Bickel, Social Media Specialist, quoting “favorite crime” from SOUR
“It took you two weeks to go off and date her, you didn’t cheat, but you’re still a traitor."
"That one cuts. If you know you know, unfortunately.” — Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, Director, Social Media & Video, quoting “traitor” from SOUR
"They all say that it gets better the more you grow, what but if I don’t?"
"This one kills me. Her questioning, is this the best I’m ever going to be? What if this is the best version of myself? Brutal, relatable, especially in a song called ‘teenage dream.'" — Emma Baty, Deputy Editor, Entertainment, quoting “teenage dream” from GUTS
“Maybe I’m too emotional, but your apathy is like a wound in salt."
"The real sting is the contrast: one person is raw and hurting, the other is completely unbothered. That imbalance, not the conflict itself, is often what cuts deepest in relationships. Indifference can feel more cruel than anger because at least anger acknowledges you exist.” — Mili Patel, Designer, quoting “good 4 u,” from SOUR
“If someone tells me one more time, ‘Enjoy your youth’ I’m gonna cry."
“I think everyone these days feels an insane pressure to enjoy every second of our lives—especially our youth. It makes me feel like if I'm not capitalizing my beauty, energy, able-bodied ness, and general freedom from the avalanche of responsibilities and adulthood mundanities coming at me once I hit 40 that I'll have wasted the "best years of my life". I become more concerned and obsessed with how I live my life than actually living it—and that makes me want to cry.” —Khadija Horton, Senior Designer, quoting “brutal” from SOUR
“Loving you is loving every argument you held over my head, brought up the girls you could have instead."
"GUTS was on indefinite replay in my car’s speakers when the album released. I would silence anyone in the passenger seat when the bridge to this song came on—scream-singing it out the window felt like sending a curse to the man that did this to her!” — Kaia Carioli, Associate Fashion Editor, quoting “logical” from GUTS
"Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy, not me, if you ever cared to ask."
"There’s no emptier feeling than going from being so close with someone—sharing your entire life and being their partner in the most mundane, everyday moments—to then knowing nothing about their world. You’re left piecing things together from photos and posts, when you used to know every small detail of their day-to-day, and they no longer care about yours. It completely wrecked 21-year-old me." — Jasmine Hyman, Assistant Beauty Editor, quoting “good 4 u” from SOUR
“It takes strength to forgive, but I'm not quite sure I'm there yet."
"I don’t hold many grudges, but when I do, just know the person had to have wronged me tremendously. In cases like that, I’m brought back to Olivia’s final few lines in ‘the grudge.’ What really gets me is her heart-wrenching delivery through a broken whisper. That being said, Olivia, let me know the best address to forward my therapy bill to." — Sam Olson, Assistant Editor, quoting "the grudge" from GUTS
"It's bittersweet to think about the damage that we do, 'cause I was going down, but I was doing it with you."
"This hits close to home. She was so young when she wrote it, but she eloquently captured a feeling I couldn’t put into words as someone four years her senior. The song in its entirety is devastatingly beautiful and feels like a tattoo—so good it hurts." — Sam Olson, Assistant Editor, quoting "favorite crime" from SOUR
