Olivia Rodrigo teases new music in Spotify Wrapped message
Olivia Rodrigo has continued teasing her hotly awaited second album, casually mentioning in her Spotify Wrapped message that “new music” is on the playing cards for 2023.
The brief video message was despatched to Rodrigo’s high listeners on Spotify, coinciding with the launch of this yr’s Spotify Wrapped effort.
Addressing her followers straight, she says within the message: “I simply wished to say thanks a lot for listening to my music this yr. I actually, actually couldn’t be extra grateful and I’m so excited for subsequent yr, and the entire new issues and new music that 2023 will deliver.”
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Rodrigo has spent a lot of this yr hyping up the successor to her smash-hit debut album, ‘Bitter’. Again in February, she revealed that she’d already selected its title, and had “just a few songs” lined up for it. Then, in an interview with Elle, she teased that LP2 would have a extra optimistic really feel, joking that she’s “undoubtedly not as unhappy” as she was when she was writing ‘Bitter’.
It was confirmed in August that Rodrigo had begun recording her subsequent launch, teaming up as soon as extra with ‘Bitter’ producer Dan Nigro.
The pair labored intently collectively on that first report, which arrived final Might through Geffen and promptly shot Rodrigo to stardom. Along with giving the US’ Billboard 200 chart the largest first-week figures it’d seen for 2021, Rodrigo made UK chart historical past as the primary feminine artist with three of the highest 5 singles in the identical week, and later the youngest artist to land a UK Quantity One on two concurrent charts – a billing she saved two weeks in a row.
The album additionally earned a slew of accolades, together with three Grammys and 6 wins at this yr’s Billboard Music Awards. It earned a five-star evaluate from NME, and was adopted by two Disney+ specials: the live performance movie ‘Bitter Promenade’ and the documentary ‘Driving Residence 2 U (A Bitter Movie)’.
When she wasn’t writing for her second album, Rodrigo spent a lot of 2022 on the highway, making waves along with her dozens of buzzy cameos and happenings. At this yr’s Glastonbury, for instance, she teamed up with Lily Allen to carry out ‘Fuck You’ in protest of the US Supreme Court docket. That was adopted by a shock gig in Manchester, the place Rodrigo lined Natalie Imbruglia‘s ‘Torn’; she would later carry out it with Imbruglia herself in London.
On the US leg of the tour, Rodrigo welcomed out such visitors as Alanis Morissette (to assist cowl ‘You Oughta Know’), and Avril Lavigne (for a canopy of ‘Difficult’). At one present in Canada, too, she introduced Conan Grey out to affix her on a canopy of ‘The One That Obtained Away’ by Katy Perry. Different exhibits noticed her tackle No Doubt’s 1995 hit ‘Simply A Woman’, in addition to a canopy of ‘Seether’ by Veruca Salt that earned reward from the band themselves.