The pop star teased some long-awaited new music on the two-year anniversary of “Drivers License”
Olivia Rodrigo marked the two-year anniversary of her breakout single, “Drivers License,” with a message wanting towards the long run — and new music.
On Instagram Tales yesterday, Jan. 8, Rodrigo shared a brief video of her and producer Dan Nigro laughing and headbanging alongside to some fairly tender and delicate piano chords. “Engaged on so many new songs I’m excited to indicate u!” Rodrigo wrote. “Thank u for all the things.”
That was the extent of the message, with Rodrigo declining to supply any specifics as to when this new music could be launched. It’s doubtless, although, there could possibly be new music this 12 months, with Rodrigo writing in a Spotify Wrapped message final November, “I’m so excited for subsequent 12 months, and all the new issues and new music that 2023 will deliver.”
In the meanwhile, followers must content material themselves with “The Bels,” a vacation music Rodrigo wrote when she was 5 years previous and at last launched final 12 months. That’s just about the one new music Rodrigo has shared because the arrival of her celebrated debut album, Bitter, in 2021. (She does nonetheless have a recurring function on Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Collection and recorded some music for that final 12 months.)
Rodrigo spent a lot of 2022 on the street in help of Bitter, the place, together with enjoying her personal hits, she peppered her setlists with covers of songs like Veruca Salt’s “Seether,” No Doubt’s “Only a Lady,” and Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” Rodrigo additionally helped induct Carly Simon into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame final 12 months and took the stage with Billy Joel for renditions of “Deja Vu” and “Uptown Lady.”