Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure
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Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202626 min
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Olivia Rodrigo is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. In June 2026, she released her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. The day it came out, it broke streaming records on Spotify and Amazon Music, and it debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts. I talked to Olivia Rodrigo here in my studio, and I also visited her long-time producer and co-writer Dan Nigro at his studio. Dan Nigro won the Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2025, in part for his work with Olivia Rodrigo. For this episode, the two of them told...

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You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishi K. Shiraway. This episode contains explicit language.

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Olivia Rodrigo is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. In June, 2026, she released her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for A Girl So In Love. The day it came out, it broke streaming records on Spotify and Amazon Music, and debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.

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I talked to Olivia here in my studio, and I also visited her longtime producer and co-writer Dan Nigro at his studio. Dan Nigro won the Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2025, in part for his work with Olivia Rodrigo.

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