![]() ![]() The music gets louder and more frantic, and Rodrigo’s expression becomes increasingly concerned. The chorus repeats, this time with clips showing the two young women mirroring one another, repeating each others’ actions, and staring at each other. Rodrigo goes on to sing “Do you call her?/Almost say my name/’Cause let’s be honest/We kinda do sound the same.” The video begins to show her in all the places the new girl is pictured–proving that her ex is taking his new girlfriend to all the places that he went with Rodrigo.Īt this point, Rodrigo seemingly alludes to the dramatic love-triangle between her and actors Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter with the shady lyric “Another actress/I’d hate to think that I was just your type.” The boxy screens show videos of this new girl in colorful and romantic locations. Rodrigo sings “When she’s with you/do you get deja vu?” before a psychedelic beat-drop and a clip of her walking into a room full of old-fashioned televisions. She drives away only to arrive home and put on the same dress, singing the lyrics to the chorus:“So when you gonna tell her/That we did that too?/She thinks it special/But it’s so reused.” She pulls up to an ivy-covered home and peeks in the window to see a girl (played by Talia Ryder) dancing around in a green dress. The lyrics describe dates she’s gone on with her ex-lover, saying “Car rides to Malibu/Strawberry ice cream/One spoon for two/And trading jackets.” In the video, she is featured driving an old-timey convertible and eating ice cream. Rodrigo has fascinated us all once more with her artistic music videos and her relatable, heart wrenching songs. The lyrics to “deja vu” can be accessed here.In January, 2021, Olivia Rodrigo broke the internet with her hit song ‘Driver’s License.’ On April 1st she dropped her new song ‘Deja Vu,’ and it was no April Fool’s joke. As of the beginning of May 2021, the video has almost 50 million views and over 1.8 million likes. Rodrigo heads home, where there are TVs stacked up playing videos of the girl she saw but when Rodrigo rewinds the video, it is her in the dress and not the other girl, so Rodrigo smashes all the TVs. So I wanted to do a Killing Eve-esque video, that’s like female stalkery.” Directed by Allie Avital and released on the 1st April 2021, the video was shot in Malibu and shows Rodrigo driving a car and eating ice-cream as shr drives to a house and watches a girl in a green dress. I’m like obsessed with Jodie Comer, she’s incredible and I love that show so much. The music video for “deja vu” was inspired by the British series “Killing Eve”, which Rodrigo revealed via an Instagram Live, stating: “I’m obsessed with Killing Eve, it is my favorite show ever. I really love painting pictures with songs, so we’ve tried to be really vivid with the lyrics.” ![]() So we kind of wrote it together, and created this whole like world. So he’s like “What else do you have?” and I was like “I have this like line written” and he really liked it. I had this like line in my phone written for like a while “when she’s with you, do you get deja vu?” I was in the studio with Dan, and we were trying to write like a sad song, but it just wasn’t coming. It’s this super universal thing that happens to everyone that we just don’t talk about a ton. You break up with someone, and they get with somebody else, and you kind of see them living the life you lived with them. So, I thought it would be a cool like play on words to kind of use deja vu as a metaphor for like how, it’s a very universal thing that happens. “I’m sort of obsessed with the concept of deja vu, like I really love that concept. ![]() Speaking to Rodrigo, Zane Lowe enquired about the inspiration behind the song, to which Rodrigo responded: ![]() Written by Rodrigo and writer and producer Dan Nigro, the indie pop song acts as a second part to Rodrigo’s first release “drivers license”, however this song sees Rodrigo wish her ex-partners current girlfriend luck with the relationship, as she recalls how her ex is doing the same things with his current girlfriend. “deja vu” is the second single from American singer Olivia Rodrigo and her upcoming debut studio album “Sour”, which is due to be released on the 21st May 2021. ![]()
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