NEWS

***NEWS*** (stylized in all caps) is the third album by Olivia Rodrigo that was released on April 14, 2025, through Geffen Records.

## ***NEWS***Studio album by Olivia Rodrigo

* Standard
* Deluxe

## Singles

"do better"
Released: December 17th, 2024
"prison for life"
Released: February 23th 2025

## Promotional Singles

1. "strangers again"
Released: April 14th 2025

## Background:

* After releasing GUTS, her second studio album, Olivia confirmed that she was working on new music, and around 8 months later, she announced that she was working on some of her old songs, and specifically said "I'm trying to do some good work with my old work, kinda like recycling???".
* In September 2024, she posted a YouTube shorts where she promotioned her new album "MILD", which was supposed to release by April 1st, 2025, In the video, the Studio Remade Version of "prison for life"'s instrumental could be heard in the background.
* At December 16th, 2024, she posted a sneak peek of "do better" on YouTube.
* At December 17th in the evening, 2024, she released "do better" Official Video on YouTube, as her album ***NEWS'*** first single.
* December 25th morning, 2024, she uploaded "do better" Official Lyric Video on Youtube.

* December 28th, 2024, she revealed that she wasn't releasing an album called "MILD", but she didn't specify if she was or was not gonna release an album.
* December 31th, 2024, she revealed that her third album would be called "NEWS", and made its preordering available.
* At 2025' New Years Eve, January 1st, she talked about the chance releasing a second single before the album's official release date, just as she did in her album *GUTS*.

* Between January last weeks and half of February of 2025, she sneak-peeked several YouTube Shorts of her second upcoming single, "prison for life".
* February 23th, 2025, she released "prison for life" Official Video as ***NEWS***' second single, followed by the Official Lyric Video, 24 hours later.
* March 20th, 2025, she announced that ***NEWS*** would release by April 14th, of that same year.
* April 14th's morning, 2025, ***NEWS*** releases officially on all streaming platforms. She talks about "strangers again" and "strange" having a chance of being singles.
* On April 14th's evening, 2025, "strangers again" becomes officially a single, discarding the idea of "strange" being a single.

## Trivia:

* Olivia explained in an interview that some of the songs were songs that she wrote much time ago, and that she liked them so much, that she just decided to finish them and use them for the album, also saying that recycling old work and mixing it with your new one isn't a bad or lazy thing.
* Around half of the songs in ***NEWS*** were written back in 2021 (2019-2021), and even further in the past, while the other half of them were written in 2024, and some of them weren't finished by the time "do better" released.
* The album’s title can be seen in the music video for “brutal”, same as *GUTS'*.
* The album was originally going to have 22 songs in its Standard Edition, and none in its Deluxe Edition.
* Almost a year and a half after releasing the album, she announced she was working on some music, and that could or could not reuse some of the outtakes from *NEWS*. Later it was revealed that she was working on a new album called *MEAN*.

## Outtakes:

* "untrust"
* "giving up"
* "what do you want from me?"
* "everything you could ask for"
* "sunken"
* "finale"
* "skyscrappers"
* "the begging"
* "sweet but sour"
* "meltdowns"
* "fake reality"
* "just friends"

### Scrapped Names:

* "news" (Former Track 1)
* "relentless attempts" (Former Track 4)
* "nostalgia is pain" (Former Track 4)
* "homesickness" (Former Track 4)
* "plot twist" (Former Track 5)
* "why even try?" (Former Track 6)
* "done it yourself" (Former Track 8)
* "not the same" (Former Track 10)
* "shameless" (Former Track 11)
* "rebel without a clue" (Former Track 12)
* "it's complicated" (Former Track 14)
* "little naïve girl" (Former Track 17)
* "child's play" (Former Track 19)
* "past times" (Former Track 19)
* "21st century girls" (Former Track 21)
* "kept it up" (Former Track 22)
* "terror night" (Former Track 22)
* "tricks" (Former Track 22)