Ahead of her sophomore album, Olivia Rodrigo releases her second single, “bad idea right?” and its accompanying video. The single was produced and co-written with her frequent collaborator Daniel Nigro, the mastermind behind Rodrigo’s breakthrough debut, SOUR.
The follow-up to “vampire” — a June release that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has five VMA nominations — is a frenetic and wildly fun track compared to the piano-driven lead single. Rodrigo’s forthcoming sophomore album, GUTS, is out September 8 via Geffen Records.
“Bad idea right?” looks at getting back with an ex against all better judgment. As the song unfolds, the 20-year-old artist narrates her feverish inner monologue with self-aware humor and confessional candor. The dizzying backdrop of chaotic guitar riffs, pounding drumbeats, and giddy gang vocals only emphasizes the playful songwriting.
“‘bad idea right?’ started with us making a joke song about me hooking up with an ex-boyfriend, but then we realized we were actually onto something,” Rodrigo says. “We were throwing the weirdest things at the wall — in one of choruses there’s a part that sounds like an instrument in the background, but it’s me gradually screaming louder and louder.”
With its aesthetic partly inspired by early-’90s B-movie horror-comedy, the music video follows Rodrigo on a journey to an ex’s house– equal parts surreal, harrowing, and fantastically absurd. The Petra Collins-directed video also features the singer’s friends the singer’s friendsMadison Hu, Iris Apatow, and Tate McRae.
“We wrote the chorus as a joke but we loved it so much we made it into a full fledged song lol!” Rodrigo posted to Instagram promoting the single.
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