Olivia Rodrigo makes heartbreaking admission about new album after Louis Partridge breakup

Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that she changed up several love songs on her upcoming album after her breakup with Louis Partridge.

The 23-year-old singer made the revelation on Popcast by The New York Times, explaining that she wrote the songs in real time while living through the relationship herself. 

After the split, she returned to some of the earlier tracks and changed parts of them to better reflect her feelings.

Now, the record, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is being marketed as an emotional journey of a relationship from its happiest moments to its eventual breakdown.

"Dan (Nigro, co-writer and producer) and I, after writing breakup songs and stuff, we had the fun challenge of going back and actually tweaking some of the love songs that are on the record and making them a little more honest and more sad and creepy," she shared.

She said the changes helped shape the album into a more complete story rather than separate moments from different periods of her life.

"I was really happy with the way it turned out... We kind of like, postmortem, we went in and changed things and made it a whole body of work rather than, you know, like little moments."

The album’s first six tracks are mostly love songs, Rodrigo insists. She described the track Purple as the turning point where uncertainty begins to appear before the record moves fully into heartbreak territory. 

"The song Purple was originally a love song," she continued. "It's like six songs and (then) it's Purple and that's when the doubt creeps in and then (second single) The Cure."

Rodrigo also revealed that Purple was originally written as a straightforward love song before it evolved into something more emotional.

Despite the album’s storyline, Rodrigo said she does not see it as a traditional concept album. Instead, she described it as a “capsule” of her life during that period.

The singer also touched upon her songwriting process, saying it is deeply personal and based on whatever emotions she is experiencing at the time.

"I've never been a person who's like, 'I'm going to make a concept record,'" she said. "I write songs to process my feelings so every day when I come and I sit at the piano, or I get the guitar, I go to the studio, it's like, 'What is burning in me to say right now?' It also comes from the heart and it's not super calculated in that way."

Rodrigo and Partridge reportedly ended their relationship in December after dating for around two years. Earlier this year, the singer also denied rumours claiming she had scrapped the entire album following the breakup.

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is scheduled for release on June 12.