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Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Gary Oldman higher be careful (although Robert Pattinson can chill out.) Olivia Rodrigo returned to music with “vampire,” the primary single off her upcoming Guts, the follow-up to her commercially profitable, award-winning debut. The track doesn’t maintain again.

Within the sultry video, the songstress lounged at nighttime on a mattress of grass, clutching a mic and carrying an ethereal white mini costume. “Blood sucker, soul f***** / bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire” she croons as she realizes with dismay that she’s truly on a stage, which finally bursts into flames as a horrified viewers watches. Olivia additionally hosted a livestream occasion forward of the track and music video’s midnight launch on June 30, taking photographs with followers whereas carrying a shocking black slipdress with off the shoulder straps.

Olivia introduced her new music on Jun. 13. “My new track ‘vampire’ is out June thirtieth!” she wrote, whereas sharing the one artwork. Followers who additionally referred to as the Heartbreak Hotline at 323-622-SOUR heard a preview of the track, with Teen Vogue calling it a “slower, piano-centric ballad” like her breakthrough hit, “Drivers License.”

“Marking the primary new music from the record-breaking younger artist because the Might 2021 launch of Bitter, ‘vampire’ is the sound of an artist firmly in management, imbued with a way of maturity and a daring confidence,” Geffen Data mentioned in a press launch. The track was written with producer Daniel Nigro, the previous guitarist for indie rock band As Tall As Lions who additionally labored on Olivia’s Bitter. Nigro additionally labored on Olivia’s upcoming sophomore album, Guts.

“I completely love working with Dan,” she instructed Billboard in February 2022. Now we have such a very good groove collectively. We’re at all times sharing concepts backwards and forwards and have been carving out time to work collectively within the studio. The craziness of ‘Bitter’ being out on the planet was one thing that actually solely Dan and I may relate to, and I feel that has introduced us nearer collectively. I belief him a lot and actually benefit from the music we’ve been making.”

“For me, this album is about rising pains and attempting to determine who I’m at this level in my life,” Olivia mentioned in a press launch for Guts. “I really feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20—it was such an intense interval of awkwardness and alter. I feel that’s all only a pure a part of development, and hopefully, the album displays that.”

The brand new single could present that regardless of the expansion, she’s nonetheless a Twilight fan. “My favourite album is the Twilight soundtrack and no one can change my thoughts,” she tweeted in March 2020. Two years, later, a fan reposted certainly one of Olivia’s Instagram Tales, apparently taken whereas the singer was on tour. “Obsessive about the truth that Olivia Rodrigo wears Edward Cullen in-ear displays on tour,” mentioned the fan. After Olivia shared the paintings for the one – a black-and-white photograph of her profile, with two purple bandages on her neck – her good friend, Conan Grey, posted a scene from Twilight to advertise the track. Taylor Lautner, one of many stars of the vampire-werewolf franchise, commented on Olivia’s photograph, asking, “Ok WHO TF BIT YOU.” The official Twilight IG account additionally commented, “Been ready for this present day! Goals actually do come true.”

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