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"Deja Vu" received acclaim from music critics, many of whom considered it a strong follow-up to " Drivers License" (2021) and praised its lyrics. Vincent receiving writing credits for its interpolation of Swift's 2019 song " Cruel Summer".Īn incorporation of various pop sub-genres, "Deja Vu" is about heartbreak and explores Rodrigo's anguish about her ex-partner repeating things they did in his new relationship. Rodrigo wrote the song with its producer Dan Nigro, with Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and St. It was released on April 1, 2021, through Geffen and Interscope Records, as the second single from her debut studio album, Sour (2021). “The rest of it feels minuscule compared to that." Deja Vu" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo. “Somehow, all of that totally pales in comparison to turning 20,” she says. She did well.’ I think she’d be really happy with who she is.”īut despite her stratospheric rise to fame after her album “Sour,” the song topics seem a bit dated to her now. “That girl feels like a different person. Now that she’s 20 and living her own adult life, her thoughts about the girl that wrote about heartbreak at 17 are ones of compassion and grace.

I could sit here and be like, ‘I don’t get why people do that,’ but I do it so often.” “It’s an interesting thing to think about,” she offers. Perhaps she’s referencing Bassett here and her mega-hit “Drivers License,” but when asked if she’s currently single or taken, she also takes a roundabout approach.

The most painful moment of my life turned into my most successful.” I think I believed in these false ideas for a little while. “I was under the impression,” she says, “that the younger you are, the more successful you’ll be in the music industry.

“I’m not going on 17, going through my first heartbreak, crying, with words just pouring out of me,” she says.Ī post shared by Vogue for clinging to boyfriends and going through heartbreak, she does touch on the subject briefly but prefers to frame it as a part of growing up in the industry. “I would hang out with my friends every single night and have a sleepover, or I’d cling to a boyfriend, anything to not process what was actually happening in my life,” she says, adding that she would prefer to be songwriting now. She also says that the trap young stars find themselves in is often due to the young party lifestyle. “I wake up and make my little matcha and I make bacon for myself, and then I sit at the piano and try to write something, even if it’s s**t,” she says of her daily routine and her songwriting practice. Now, as we learn in the interview, she’s moved to Manhattan in her own little apartment and sees herself living out her “Sex And The City” days as a cross between Carrie and Charlotte, except she loves going to the vinyl record store and buying old Bruce Springsteen live recordings from Toronto. “I remember being in meetings when I was 13, and they were asking me what I wanted my brand to be, and I was just like, ‘I don’t even know what I want to wear tomorrow.’” A post shared by Vogue with Vogue for their new August 2023 cover story, which dropped Thursday, she says of her early days in the business, “You don’t realize how young you are when you’re young, being on sets, surrounded by 40-year-old guys, talking about the traffic and the weather, learning to make small talk like an adult.”
