When Rodrigo stated in the premiere the bridge is her favourite part, it is now clear that she is a master at creating these powerful crescendos to end her songs. Though like her debut single, it’s the concluding bridge that perfectly ties the track together. Rodrigo begins the second verse stating: “I bet that she knows Billy Joel / ‘Cause you played her ‘Uptown Girl'” and “She thinks it’s special / it’s all re-used”, singing about past memories that have now been shared with someone else.Ĭountering the bitterness of the lyrics, the chorus progresses the song with the addition of grunge-inspired over-driven guitar and drumbeats (think the production on Lorde’s ‘Hard Feelings’) as Rodrigo quips “Do you get deja vu?”. The piercing lyrics shade an ex for moving on with a new girlfriend and immersing themselves in a relationship so similar that it creates these feelings of ‘deja vu’. Yet while ‘drivers license’ basks in the melancholy of a break-up, ‘deja vu’ is powerful in its dedication to the anger residing after the initial hurt. Starting gracefully with twinkling music-box piano and innocent details of strawberry ice cream and car rides to Malibu, ‘deja vu’ highlights Rodrigo’s incredible vocals as she sings about teenage infatuation. Only three months after she broke the streaming charts with her debut single, comes the release of indie-pop song ‘deja vu’ the track precedes an eleven-track album set for release on 21 May (though the title and track list have yet to be disclosed). She started this with capitalized letters in album lyric books, and has since evolved to further symbolic hints for her fans.Olivia Rodrigo has taken her ‘drivers license’ and is now going places in the music industry. 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. 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?'” 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.