As she reached the tip of her second set of the weekend at Coachella, Addison Rae stopped to ask the viewers if they’d heard “any new music this week.” On cue, Olivia Rodrigo emerged from the again of the stage, becoming a member of the pop singer for a pair of duets.
Rodrigo first sang with Rae on the latter’s single “Headphones On,” buying and selling strains and coming collectively on the refrain. “Coachella, how a lot can we love Miss Addison?” » requested Rodrigo as soon as the tune was over. “Oh my God, I’d simply drop lifeless,” Rae added, a nod to Rodrigo’s new single “Drop Useless.” “Can we make some noise?” Rodrigo then made the reside debut of his freshly launched single, strutting to the entrance of the stage with Rae and singing the tune as a duet.
“Drop Useless” arrived early Friday morning with a music video directed by Petra Collins. Within the clip, Rodrigo wanders across the Palace of Versailles, operating from room to room earlier than strapping on a pink guitar and going wild.
The only marks the primary style of her third album, “You Appear Fairly Unhappy for a Lady So in Love,” launched June 12 by way of Geffen Information. She recorded the album with producer Dan Nigro, her longtime collaborator who labored on her first two albums, “Bitter” and “Guts.” Forward of the album’s launch, Rodrigo will serve double obligation as host and musical visitor on “Saturday Evening Reside” on Might 2. She is going to make her internet hosting debut, though she has beforehand appeared on the present as a performer alongside host Keegan-Michael Key in 2021 and Adam Driver in 2023.