“Heated Rivalry” star Connor Storrie introduced Olivia Rodrigo for her second performance on Saturday Night Live, where she debuted a brand new, unreleased song from her upcoming album.
Rodrigo performed the track titled ‘begged’ while seated on a swing, a visible that mirrors the duvet art for her third album, “you seem pretty sad for a lady so in love,” which features her upside-down on a swing. The album is about for release June 12.
The song is a subdued, melancholic ballad centered on longing and uncertainty. “All that I would like is to know undoubtedly that you simply just have eyes for me,” Rodrigo sang. “All that I would like is to sit down here silently and watch movies on TV.”
The lyrics proceed in a similarly intimate tone, with Rodrigo singing, “What a shame you’re not here / here to witness my devotion and my limitless well of needs,” and later, “I feel trapped inside my life.”
Rodrigo recorded the album with longtime collaborator Dan Nigro, who also worked together with her on “Sour” and “Guts.” She previously described the brand new project as a set of “sad love songs,” written from a more reflective emotional place.
Earlier within the night, Rodrigo pulled double duty as host, opening the show with a monologue that revisited her Disney Channel beginnings on “Bizaardvark” and included a musical parody of her breakout hit “drivers license,” reworked right into a DMV story about getting a Real ID.
The performance follows a busy stretch for Rodrigo, who recently joined Addison Rae onstage at Coachella and likewise played a one-night-only show at The Echo in Los Angeles last week. Rodrigo first broke out in 2021 with “Sour,” followed by 2023’s “Guts,” quickly becoming one in every of pop’s most commercially dominant young artists, earning three Grammy Awards and an Album of the Yr nomination for each albums.
Watch the complete performance below.