SECRETS

***SECRETS*** (stylized in all caps) is the third album by Olivia Rodrigo that was released on November 21st 2025 , through Geffen Records.

## Background.

Olivia stated on September 2nd 2025 on a Billboard Interview that behind the scenes of her GUTS WORLD TOUR , She had been writing songs that were based off her dreams , what would've been , could've been and should've been during her teen years.

Olivia described the dreams as vivid , about things that she could've done during her teen years , for instance she described one of her dreams wherein instead of being in school she ran away with her friends and lived on an island for the rest of their years.

These "dreams" supposedly inspired the creation of SECRETS

On September 8th which was the anniversary of her sophomore album , GUTS , Olivia told fans on Instagram how grateful she was with the album and thanking everyone listening to it , as well she teased an upcoming of another record at the end.

October 3rd , Olivia had shared a Google Drive on her Instagram with a snippet of a noise with footsteps running away presumably from a monster , and on October 5th , the Google Drive updated with a snippet of Olivia swimming through purple water in a galactic kind of aesthetics with the reflection of stars and moons in the waters revealing the star-filled aesthetic of the record.

In the snippet, Olivia found a radio as Olivia placed two batteries with the words "SECRETS" in as a snippet of the album's lead single , "nevermind" played and the snippet ended.

On October 7th , the Google Drive updated with a video of Olivia running through a city , however each building she passes suddenly falls down attempting to crush her , as Olivia jumps into a crowd as Olivia wakes up as she sees a bed , Olivia jumps into the bed as she wakes up on a new planet as a snippet of the album's second single , "rusted radio" played.

On October 9th , The Google Drive updated with a video of Olivia in a mansion as Olivia supposedly gets a cloud and eats it as cotton candy , however once Olivia hears footsteps , Olivia dives into a lake as Olivia gets up from the lake , Olivia finds herself in a field with multiple flowers as Olivia sees a pixelated figure a snippet of the album's third single , "odd dreams" played.

On October 11th , Billboards were spotted with *"OLIVIA RODRIGO - nevermind. 10.17.25"* as Olivia soon shared a picture of her in a brand new outfit with morse as the caption , the morse was translated into *"you will first find a chapter of my wished life on october 17 :)"* as Olivia soon shared another picture of her trapped in vines with the caption is morse once more , the morse was translated into *"to you i was a choice , another toy , a puppet for you to detest , to make them feel less , to you I was a girl but now I see i was a pearl , to you i was nothing but something to say nevermind too."*

on October 15th , Olivia announced the "nevermind MV" to come out on the 17th on her Instagram , Olivia also told fans to look out for easter eggs for the next single.

on the 17th , the MV officially dropped along with the audio on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music , the song debuted on #2 and rose to the #1 in thirty five minutes on the Hot Billboard 100 as the song was met with 73.5 million streams and 34,000 sales.

The song also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 now being her fourth #1 on there.

Rolling Stones applauded Olivia for her fine use of metaphors and her improved songwriting from GUTS and SOUR.

Olivia also played the song on the live lounge.

On the 22nd , Olivia teased the next single as Olivia shared an Interactive puzzle in the Google Drive where fans found the emojis , "📻🤮😭" and the words "*i'm running away somewhere in an old van , don't you know tears and wine go hand in hand , and without you i'm the best I can , playing on my rusted radio!"* as on the 23rd

, Olivia had another Interactive puzzle where fans could pop star shaped balloons to reveal an echo eventually if they pop 27 balloons they would get a snippet of the next single which would be "rusted radio" *"Don't think without you i'm living in misery , I made my own victory , sipping on strawberry wine and sharing stories with your wife , i hold my own crown and its mine made by wasting my own time , now I sit on the beach playing the music you don't like on my rusted radio!!"*

Olivia soon on her Instagram (October 27th) announced "rusted radio" as the second single , Olivia also shared a snippet of the "rusted radio MV" as Billboards were hung up with the words *"OLIVIA RODRIGO - rusted radio. 11.4.25"* and some Billboards with *"want to get spite out on someone? listen to rusted radio on nov 4 while burning their car!"* as Olivia went on a few interviews as well to promote the song.

The song and its MV dropped on November 4 2025 , as the song first debuted on #5 and peaked at #2 on the Hot Billboard 100 , it was met with 72.9 Million Streams.

The song was used in Olivia's later promotion for the album , Olivia describes it in a Billboard Interview as a rebellion against someone who thinks you were going to be lost in life without them , a rebellion against the view that Olivia should just give up with her current position in singing and the rebellion against the view of Olivia being defined just by her previous relationships just because she writes songs about it.

Olivia describes it as it and "burning polaroids at 4:am" as her favorite songs from the album.

On November 8th , Olivia decided to allow fans to finally know the name of the album and see the supposed cover , Olivia on her Instagram shared an Interactive snippet where fans found the words "SECRETS" and once they did they would get the image of the album cover.

On November 10th , Olivia officially announced the album.

*"Hey, I need to share a secret with you... you know what- nevermind your gonna hear it anyways on your rusted radio or maybe in your odd dreams? well , SECRETS is coming out on November 21st , I hope you enjoyed our first too mysterious little games , because everything is gonna change."*

On November 12th , Olivia had a livestream where she discussed the production of the SECRETS album.

*"well- imagine it like a diary filled with what I wished i did during my teen years and wished i could do right now , its like something that was pulled from my head!"*

On November 14th , Olivia had a livestream where she discussed the reason for "SECRETS"

*"I called the album secrets its because- , we all have things were ashamed off and we are SECRETLY hoping that we could fix it , and we are secretly hoping that we could undo things , and in our head we have secret moments we made."*

On November 16th , Olivia announced the album's third single which was "odd dreams" , Olivia had a partnership with Starbucks with the "odd dreams drink" and the "nevermind i want donuts" along with their "rusted radio rolls" , Olivia had a few Billboards hung up as well. *"OLIVIA RODRIGO - odd dreams. 11.19.25"* and *"wanna cry over things you didn't do during your teen years and now are reminiscing because of that? OMG SAME! lets listen to odd dreams by olivia rodrigo while doing it on the 19thh :))!"*

On the 18th , Olivia set a livestream where people would wait with a countdown for the odd dreams mv.

on the 19th , the song dropped along with the "odd dreams MV" the song first debuted on #7 and peaked at #4 on the Hot Billboard and was met with 79.32 million streams.

The song was regarded by Olivia to be one of the saddest pop-rock songs she's ever did in her current carreer.

## Release and Reception.

The album fully released on November 21st 2025 , the album debuted on #3 and peaked at #1 on the Hot Billboard 200.

The song debuted with 96/100 on Metacritic and met with 490,000 album units first sold in its first week and 730,000 sold in its first month. The album was regarded by Rolling Stones to be "The Best Pop-Rock Of The Year" and praised Olivia for her hard cutting lyrics in the album and her mature approach to life in the album.

The album was nominated for Best Rock Album Grammy however it did win Best Alternative Music Album Grammy.

The "odd dreams MV" was nominated for Best Music Video and won Best Visual Effects.

## Gallery

nevermind single coverrusted radio coverodd dreams coveralbum cover
## Tracklist.

on the deluxe edition , which was later made to an EP was released on December 2nd , 2025.

"then cry about!" and womanhood were released as singles soon after being submitted to radio stations.

## Trivia.

* Olivia's favorite songs on the record are "rusted radio" and "burning polaroids at 4:am"
* Olivia's least favorite song off the record is "crying at a concert" however she loves it still.
* Olivia said she wrote a deluxe track late at night , this track is guessed by fans to be "deleting file 35"