Olivia Rodrigo is finding inspiration in Sex & The City on her new album.
The 23-year-old Sour singer-songwriter’s latest record, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, dropped on Friday (June 12), and there’s at least one song that directly references the characters Miranda and Steve from the hit HBO series.
“Everything feels moldy like the fruit that’s in my fridge / And everything that’s funny, I wish I could tell to him,” she sings.
In an interview, Olivia explained that the lyric is a direct reference to their romance.
“I love Sex and the City. I think I’ve watched, like, every episode maybe three times, but there’s this, like, when Miranda and Steve are getting back together, she’s crying. ‘Steve, anytime something funny happens, I just want to tell you.’ And I remember watching that and being like, ‘Oh, my God, I have to write a song about this,’” Olivia shared on The Tonight Show.
She also called it one of her favorites on the album.
“I really love it. I think that when we made that one, sonically, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, this feels right and this feels like the point in time that I’m at.’ I kind of knew, and Dan [Nigro], who I made the record with. I love rock music and I have such a reverence for rock music and it’s all that I really listen to, but I think going into it, it didn’t feel exciting to me. Like, rock in the traditional sense of power chords, distortion, that’s not here on this album. But I think a song like [“maggots for brains”] feels alternative to me without being like, ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ by Joan Jett, which is one of my favorite songs. I love that song, but it was in a more subtle way. And that was more exciting to me than writing like some really banger thing. I love those songs, maybe I’ll do that later. But making that song was like, ‘Okay, I kind of figured out what I wanted the sound to be or what was gonna be different about this record,’” she told Popcast of finding the song’s sound.
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