And it's everyone else's song to interpret, it's not your song anymore," Rodrigo said. "The success of 'Drivers License' has been a huge lesson in how you just need to, when you put a song out, you just need to let it go. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on its release, Rodrigo said she felt pressure to follow up with another hit. And so I thought it would be a cool play on words to use déjà vu as a metaphor for this very universal thing that happens when you break up with someone and they get with somebody else, and see them living the life that you lived," the "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" actress said.Īfter the success of her first single "Drivers License," which debuted in the No. "I'm sort of obsessed with the concept of déjà vu.
Rodrigo tells Apple Music's Zane Lowe in an interview released Thursday she wrote the song a month after "Drivers License" and similar to her former single, "Deja Vu" is about heartbreak. The 18-year-old star's new record "Deja Vu" is from her upcoming, yet to be titled, debut album expected May 21. Rodrigo released a new single Thursday just a couple months after giving listeners "Drivers License" in January. Olivia Rodrigo fans may be experiencing déjà vu. The song shows that she and Nigro are a team to watch when it comes to modern pop.Īlthough some may say her success comes from the assumed love triangle between her co-star Joshua Bassett, Sabrina Carpenter and herself, her music is truly successful because it is a reflection of her talent and artistry, as well as an indication of the type of artists that modem music legends like Swift and Lorde can create.įollowing in the footsteps of her idols, Rodrigo is making a name for herself as a woman in music.Watch Video: 'Drivers License': Olivia Rodrigo releases new footage, Joshua Bassett drops single “Deja vu” is an indie-pop song with DIY instrumentals that are nicely complemented by the song’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics, marking Rodrigo’s versatility. Although Swift is directly referenced in the production of “deja vu,” Lorde’s unique synth-pop sound appears to be a musical manifestation in the song - think “Green Light” from her 2017 album, “Melodrama.” The lyrics in parentheses are actually scream-sung by Rodrigo, which she stated to Rolling Stone was inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer.” The bridge also leads to the outro of the song instead of a repeated chorus, positioning the song as an expanded crescendo of lyrical and musical complexity.Īlong with Swift, Rodrigo has also listed Lorde as a musical inspiration.
What brings the musicality of the song to a peak is the bridge, where Rodrigo sings, “Strawberry ice cream in Malibu / don’t act like we didn’t do that shit too / you’re trading jackets like we used to do / (yeah, everything is all reused) / play her piano, but she doesn’t know (oh, oh) / that I was the one who taught you Billy Joel (oh) / a different girl now, but there’s nothing new / (I know you get déjà vu).”
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This creates the illusion of a ballad, which Rodrigo fans would be used to, but the song slowly transitions to a shockingly full sound with bold lyrics. Up until the second verse, the song only features a toy piano and a few other instruments before drums and the full band are added. Rodrigo and Nigro also increase the volume and intensity of the song as it progresses. Each of these little nuances adds to the depth of the song.
The hidden “I love you” is a direct reference to the second verse, and in the first verse when she sings “Being annoying / singing in harmony,” Rodrigo adds a brief harmonic vocal line for those lyrics. What makes “deja vu” one of a kind is that there is both a distinct symmetry and parity between what is happening lyrically and compositionally. This is a reference to the verse that states, “Now I bet you even tell her / how you love her / in between the chorus and the verse.” This part of the song is so faint that you have to be actively listening to hear it. One of the hidden gems of the song is a softly spoken “I love you” placed between the second verse and the chorus, which Rodrigo recorded on her iPhone. The song also includes saxophones, flutes and a toy piano, along with Rodrigo’s harmonies and scream-singing, which comes into play in the second verse as well as the bridge. The song builds from simple musical production and serene lyrics to a surprising turn of narrative, and it has a psychedelic composition consisting of drums and a mellotron, which gives off the sound of a distorted guitar. Some of the recordings used in production were actually iPhone recordings that the pair recorded separately. The song’s production, however, was a long process for the pair since they were in different locations at the time. Rodrigo and her producer, Dan Nigro, wrote the song in a studio session based around a lyric that Rodrigo kept in the Notes app on her phone: “When she’s with you, do you get deja vu?”
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