

In it, she calls out her ex for doing all the things he did first with her with his new girlfriend and questions whether the other girl knows it. Where "drivers linsense" was Rodrigo's moment to cry about her breakup, "deja vu" is where she gets angry. “My next singles are reflective of that and there’s also a lot of aspects of a breakup that aren’t sadness and stuff like that.” “I want people to see more about who I am as a person and get to know me better,” the star admitted. I’m super stoked and also really nervous.”Īfter the hype of "Drivers License," Rodrigo wanted to make sure fans know she had more to offer. “I think people are gonna get to see another aspect of my music and my songwriting. “I can’t give away too many details, but it’s definitely not like ‘drivers license’ at all, which I’m really excited about,” she said when chatting with MTV on March 29. Rodrigo didn't reveal much else about her new song, but she did promise it would be much different from her debut. The next day, a tweet surfaced which teased the lyrics, "let's be honest." "Strawberry ice cream, one spoon for two" one tweet promoting the song read. Rodrigo started teasing the lyrics to "deja vu" several days before releasing the song, partnering with Spotify to do so. If you pay attention to Olivia Rodrigo's "deja vu" lyrics, you might catch a clue. Her follow-up single "deja vu," arrived on April 2, and of course fans are already speculating about who the song was written about. She started this with capitalized letters in album lyric books, and has since evolved to further symbolic hints for her fans.Three months after the release of her debut single "drivers license," Olivia Rodrigo is back with more music magic. Swift is famous for including Easter eggs in her songs as nods to hidden and deeper meaning to her fans. Swift notably sent the “good 4 u” artist a ring and a letter after Rodrigo covered one of her songs. Rodrigo and Swift also formed a friendship early in the former’s career. Rodrigo revealed in a different interview with MTV that she studies Swift’s songwriting to inspire her own tracks. Her hidden lyric is another way that she’s following in Taylor Swift’s footsteps. Rodrigo’s secret message is a meta-reference in that the “I love you” that she said came between the second verse and the chorus of her own song. The secret message in Rodrigo’s song can be heard in between the following lyrics: “Now I bet you even tell her how you love her / in between the chorus and the verse / I love you.”

I thought that would be a cool way to talk about deja vu and make it fun and relationship-y.” Olivia Rodrigo revealed a secret message in her song ‘deja vu’ That’s a universal, relatable thing that doesn’t get talked about a ton. Rodrigo continued: “That can be frustrating. They’re living the same life you lived with another partner.” “To talk about when you break up with someone and they move on, sometimes you’ve watched them on social media or whatever. “I thought it would be a cool way to talk about deja vu,” she commented. She expressed that she thinks the phenomenon of “deja vu” is interesting.

I thought it’d be interesting to write a song, using deja vu. The song originated with one simple lyric Rodrigo had in the notes app on her phone: “One of the little hook lines that I had was, ‘When she’s with you, do you get deja vu?'” I know you get deja vu, she hurls at the ex-love, a line delivered with all the angst of a certain pop icons. At the time, Nigro asked Rodrigo what else she had. “We were actually trying to write another sadder song and it wasn’t working,” she said. They revealed that they created the song back in August 2020. Rodrigo and her producer Dan Nigro discussed the making of “Deja Vu” in an interview with Rolling Stone. | Mat Hayward/Getty Images for iHeartMedia Olivia Rodrigo explained her ‘deja vu’ song lyrics in an interview Olivia Rodrigo performs on the Daytime Stage at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Festival at AREA15 on Septemin Las Vegas, Nevada. Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her career with hit singles like “drivers license.” She followed in the footsteps of her idol Taylor Swift by incorporating a hidden message in the lyrics to her song “deja vu.” The Disney+ actor revealed in a new interview that she has a line she whispers in her second single.
