Here’s what we know about it, including the ‘happy coincidence’ about its name

A brand new Olivia Rodrigo single? Say much less. When Rodrigo introduced that she’d be releasing her second single from her upcoming album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love on Friday, her devoted fandom erupted with pleasure. Rodrigo referred to as the upcoming launch, titled “The Cure,” her favourite track on the album and certainly one of her favourite songs she’s ever made.

The 23-year-old pop star made the preliminary announcement on Tuesday, when she posted a photograph of the single’s art work on Instagram: a Polaroid of Rodrigo holding some red string in a cat’s cradle kind of wayaptly spelling out the track’s title.

But Rodrigo didn’t stop there. She continued teasing the upcoming single, this time with a snippet of the music video that can be set to drop. In the clip shared on Wednesday, girls in nurse uniforms and chunky white heels are seen making their manner towards powdery pink doorways that learn “OR” in her now signature curly-girl font. Rodrigo, along with his tussled, dark-brown locks, seems to be to be main the cost towards the working room.

So what’s the single even about? Are there any clues in the Polaroid Rodrigo shared? And what, if any, is the Cure frontman Robert Smith’s position in all of this? Yahoo is breaking down all the pieces Rodrigo’s fandom is aware of — and is speculating about — forward of “The Cure” launch. Let’s drop in…

Robert Smith’s affect

Rodrigo has made her admiration for the Cure and its frontman, Robert Smith, well-known. She described the frontman as “perhaps the best songwriter to come out of England” and “a personal hero” of hers — earlier than bringing him out as a shock visitor throughout her headlining Glastonbury set final June. The duo — who charmingly strummed their guitars and alternated verses on not one however two timeless tracks by the Cure: “Friday I’m in Love” and “Just Like Heaven” — have since maintained a candy friendship.

Smith told British Vogue for Rodrigo’s April cover story: “She calls me up quite a bit to talk about clothes and fashion — and we have enjoyed a couple of memorable nights in the studio together. … I can’t wait to hear what she does next!”

How does this all relate to Rodrigo’s upcoming single? Well, the track’s title has some followers speculating that Smith himself may have been involved in producing the track. After all, Smith stated he’d hung out in the studio with Rodrigo — and Rodrigo name-dropped “Just Like Heaven” in her track, “drop dead,” the main single off her new album: “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’” she sings, “and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standing right here.”

Could a type of studio periods have been dedicated to writing and recording “The Cure”? It’s not unimaginable! And it’s it simply a coincidence that Rodrigo plans to launch a observe titled “The Cure” on a Friday? (See the Cure’s song, “Friday I’m In Love.”)

Well, it truly is. During an appearance on iHeartRadio’s Elvis Duran Show on Thursday, Rodrigo stated that “The Cure” has truly nothing to do with the band: “It just was a happy coincidence, I suppose.” and

Nods to Red String Theory

Another selection that’s positively not a coincidence: The use of crimson string in Rodrigo’s art work for “The Cure.” In an interview with Cosmopolitan final month, Rodrigo coyly confirmed that “the string is important in the themes of the album.”

The Red String Theoryalso called the Red Thread of Fateis a perception drawn from East Asian mythology that claims individuals destined to be in one another’s lives are related by an invisible crimson string. It’s the concept that no matter time, circumstance or place, should you’re meant to satisfy, you’ll.

One fan on X speculated about Rodrigo’s track“Instead of the typical invisible red string that you have with your lover, she is the only one that’s holding it. She now realizes that love can’t fix you unless you yourself are ‘the cure.'”

Fans can in all probability rely on at the very least some craving on the observe, as Rodrigo recently told Audacy Music“I realized all my favorite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in them.”

An replace to the pink wall

Rodrigo’s now well-known mural in Los Angeles additionally bought a facelift! While the most important, concrete wall nonetheless reads, “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,” it seems to have been repainted in a crimson, curly font resembling a sew sample. Additional lyrics surrounding the most important mural have additionally popped up close by, including the lyrics “why can’t you come stitch me up?” and “it’ll never be the cure.”

“I KNEW IT I KNEW THIS HAD TO BE RELATED TO THE RED STRING THEORY,” one fan wrote of the new mural. Another added, “WE ARE NOT READY FOR THIS.”

Online, followers additionally assume that each one indicators level to “The Cure” being the closing track on you appear fairly unhappy for a lady so in love. This perception stems from one thing journalist Amel Mukhtar wrote in the British Vogue cover story she penned after interviewing Rodrigo.

“The final song is about that realization: Love won’t fix you. It’s dancier, the most experimental I’ve ever heard her. The orchestral end catches me off-guard and it’s so beautiful in this setting it almost brings me to tears,” Mukhtar wrote.

The observe is “the climax of the record,” Rodrigo told iHeart Radio. “It’s just sort of about how when you’re younger, you think falling in love with someone will fix all of your problems, and then, when you face love in reality, you realize that’s not the truth.”

She added: “It’s just coming to me to terms with things that I wanted to fix with myself, or things that I thought that love would solve.”