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Olivia Rodrigo performs in the headline slot on the Pyramid Stage at the end of day five of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 29, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. Established by Michael Eavis in 1970, Glastonbury has grown into the UK's largest music festival, drawing over 200,000 fans to enjoy performances across more than 100 stages. In 2026, the festival will take a fallow year, a planned pause to allow the Worthy Farm site time to rest and recover. Leon Neal/Getty Images Days after releasing a stellar new song exclusively via CD at one indie record shop, Olivia Rodrigo has officially dropped “Serena Joy” on all platforms.
With its layers of jubilant Devo-like synths, “Serena Joy” sounds sonically similar to the You Look Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love track “Expectations,” only the new gem is inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale, with lyrics like “If they do it to them/They’ll do it to you.” She co-wrote it with her longtime collaborator Dan Nigro, who also produced the track.
In a recent video interview with ETalk, Rodrigo said “Serena Joy” was initially recorded for Girl So in Love, but it was ultimately cut. “I actually really love that song,” she said. “It didn’t fit on the record. The record was very much a chronicle of a relationship — beginning, middle and end. And that song didn’t really fit in the story I was trying to tell. But I hope that it’ll be a part of something else down the line.”
Rodrigo first released “Serena Joy” exclusively on CD, now on eBay for more than $300 (and currently unavailable via Discogs). That CD was only available for purchase at Tustin, California’s Analog Music Shop, seven-and-a-half miles away from her upcoming inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival in Irvine’s Great Park.
“When we heard that Olivia Rodrigo was bringing an all-women music festival to Orange County, we were honestly just excited to see something this special happening right here in our hometown,” the record shop wrote on social media. “As one of the closest record stores in the area, we wanted to find a way to support Daisy Chain Fields.”
