Lyrically, Olivia Rodrigo has many identities. There is the melancholic aspect of her that relies on slow, piano-pushed chords to narrate her heartbreak. In the meantime, she also has an angsty facet that normally takes purpose at all those who disrespected her. She’s emotionally fed up and fatigued, and that hearth unfurls into punchy, substantial-vitality verses that feel therapeutic to scream together to. The singer fused the two these variations on her comeback solitary, “Vampire.”

“Vampire” is an amazing reminder that Rodrigo justifies her seat at the pop table. The observe, which was produced on June 30, is the initial flavor of her future album Guts. She very first teased the single on June 13, where by she shared a lilac-hued include of her with band-aids (from a seeming vampire bite) on her neck. The inclusion of purple, which she largely used in her Bitter period, created fans believe this solitary would be a continuation of the 2020 album. That speculation only heightened once it was unveiled she co-wrote the monitor with producer Daniel Nigro, whom she worked with on Bitter.

Although she does adopt identical sonic traits from her debut album on “Vampire,” the vitality guiding this launch feels different. The manufacturing sounds abundant and operatic.

In an job interview with Billboard, Rodrigo revealed the song’s theatrical audio was intentional. “We usually explained that [“Vampire”] was type of our model of a rock opera,” she claimed. “I feel as the album was coming collectively, we were being coming up with a bunch of music that we seriously preferred, but this one particular generally trapped out to me as a thing that I felt like was honoring my singer-songwriter roots, but felt like an evolution — in a excellent way that was not too stark.”

Creation-wise, it appeared Rodrigo analyzed the sonic highs in “drivers license” and a slight contact of “Brutal” to make this launch appear alive. On “Vampire,” she employs gothic-design and style piano riffs and punk-ish harmonies to simply call out an exploitative ex. She’s appear to understand that he was a “fame f*cker” who made use of her for his advantage, and his self-serving perspective left her emotion drained — like a vampire bite. Her jabs at her ex-companion are offended, a tad whimsical, and so very good.

Though she’s looking through her ex for filth on the track, the new music online video tells a diverse tale. There, she takes advantage of the context of general public fame to demonstrate that even at her worst, individuals will however feed on her for pure amusement. The Petras Collins-directed online video starts with Rodrigo accomplishing in a cloudy forest, which has a related essence to Twilight. As she sings the remaining lyric of the refrain, she’s injured by a falling stage gentle and stands covered in blood.

“You stated it was real like / But would not that be tricky? / You just cannot enjoy any individual / ‘Cause that would necessarily mean you had a heart,” Rodrigo wails as she proceeds to accomplish. Stability then tries to escort her off the stage, and she runs out of the location prior to they could do so. She carries on sprinting right until she’s around the freeway and abruptly levitates into the sky, almost signifying she’s getting freed from the ‘blood-sucking vampires’ who only valued her for her expertise.

Test out the songs online video for “Vampire” beneath.