Olivia Rodrigo Debuts “Stupid Song” Video as Third Album Arrives 3 Years After Guts

Q: As her new album details a relationship's full arc, what does this mean for her and Louis Partridge now?

It means Olivia Rodrigo and Louis Partridge are no longer together, and the album effectively confirms that the relationship has run its course. Rodrigo has described *You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love* as the story of her first “adult relationship,” tracing it from infatuation through anxiety, jealousy and, ultimately, heartbreak. Reporting around the album has widely linked that relationship to Partridge, whom she began dating in late 2023. The record’s two-part structure — moving from “Girl So in Love” to “You Seem Pretty Sad” — reinforces that arc from romance to collapse. The additional reporting suggests the split happened in late 2025, with the breakup becoming clear by December. Rodrigo has said she made late changes to some songs to reflect the relationship’s end and the realization that the relationship itself was the source of her unhappiness. She has also framed the album as a “time capsule” of that period and said she is ready for it to stop being solely hers, signaling emotional distance and a desire to move on. For Rodrigo now, that appears to mean closure and a shift in focus. In recent interviews she has emphasized friendship and community over dating, and there have been reports linking her socially to others, including Cameron Winter. For Partridge, the album cements the public understanding that the romance is over, even if he has not commented in comparable detail.

3 articles · Updated · Pitchfork · Jun 12

“Stupid Song” arrived with a new video showing Olivia Rodrigo roaming New York City with a group of ballerinas as her third album dropped Friday.
The track is the album’s third single, following “Drop Dead” and “The Cure,” tying the video release directly to the launch of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
Last week, Rodrigo previewed another album cut, “What’s Wrong With Me?,” in a surprise Primavera Sound set, performing it as a duet with the Cure’s Robert Smith.
The new record follows 2023’s Guts and 2021’s Sour, extending Rodrigo’s studio run with her third full-length release.