Olivia Rodrigo returns with new track, ‘vampire’

Earlier this week, Olivia Rodrigo announced plans to release her second album, ‘GUTS’, on 8th September via Geffen Records. Today, the Grammy-winning young artist has shared its lead single, the raw yet rallying ‘vampire’. It sees Olivia collaborate once again with producer and co-writer Daniel Nigro (who she worked with on breakthrough debut ‘SOUR’), but this time deliver a more mature, expansive sound.

Building from the intro’s gentle keys to increasingly urgent percussion, Olivia explains that ‘vampire’ is “a song about feeling confused and hurt, and at first I thought it was meant to be a piano ballad. But when Dan and I started working on it, we juxtaposed the lyrics with these big drums and crazy tempo changes. So now it’s like a heartbreak song you can dance to”.

Directed by Petra Collins, the track’s accompanying video is a gothic-tinged narrative that imagines Olivia performing the song as part of an ill-fated theatre production; watch it below.