“Jealousy, Jealousy” from Sour, “Lacy” from Guts, and “My Way” from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love explore themes of jealousy that appear on all three of Olivia Rodrigo’s albums.
In a cover story interview with Pitchfork published on Monday (June 22), the pop star explained why jealousy, especially towards other women, has become such a dominant emotion in her life and music. “It’s something I’ve felt strongly about since I was a little girl,” she begins, going back to her beginnings as a child actress and her rise to fame in Disney’s Bizarre Verk and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
“It’s like, ‘If you don’t want to do this, I’ll get another cute 12-year-old girl to do it for you,'” she continued. “I think some weird programming in my brain tripped the wire. I don’t think it was specific to my experience, and I think it was a bigger play on women.”
“As I get older, I realize more and more that female friendships are the most important thing to me,” Rodrigo added. “And that intensity that you get from them is so important.”
Despite suffering from jealousy, Rodrigo never let it get in the way of his passion for advocating for women and girls. After establishing herself as an activist with Fund 4 Good, which raised more than $2 million for abortion funds and other charities supporting women’s education and freedom during her 2024 Guts World Tour, the Grammy Award winner has now announced that she will be launching her own festival philanthropy.
The event, dubbed Daisy Chain Fields, will feature a lineup of other female artists including Chapel Lawn, Kate Eye, Stevie Nicks, Doechii, and Rodrigo. All net proceeds will be donated to organizations supporting women and girls.
“Actually, in a weird way, I feel like this is my calling,” she told Pitchfork about the festival. “I…have been dreaming of doing this festival for a long time.”
The interview and festival announcement came shortly after You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love was released in early June. The project, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, sold 485,000 equivalent album units in its first week, marking Rodrigo’s best first week ever for an album and the second-highest first week for an album in 2026 (behind BTS’s Arirang).
See Rodrigo on the cover of Pitchfork below.
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