Olivia Rodrigo takes the ‘SNL’ stage to debut new song

Olivia Rodrigo debuted a new track, Begged, during her stint as musical guest and host of Saturday Night Live.

Rodrigo appeared on the latest episode where she briefly joked about her Disney Channel beginnings on Bizaardvark and her former co-star Jake Paul, as well as giving a musical parody of drivers license.

For her first musical performance of the night, she played her latest single drop dead, with Debbie Harry of Blondie introducing her to the stage.

Then, Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie introduced her second song, which turned out to be begged, an unreleased track from her upcoming third studio album You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, which is set to be released on June 12.

She’d previously debuted the track, which features Weyes Blood on backing vocals, during an intimate, phone-free show in LA, while she had described it as “karaokable if you’re sad.”

Rodrigo performed the song seated on a swing, nodding to the cover art for the upcoming album.

Her new album is the follow-up to 2023’s Guts and is expected to be both “experimental” and full of “sad love songs.”

Recently, Olivia Rodrigo also shared more insight into what to expect from her new album, saying it is centred around the feelings of “jealousy” and “longing” that arose from her first “big girl relationship” and so far, she has only dropped one track, the lead single Drop Dead.