Emily Zemler
View all posts by Emily Zemler May 1, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo on 'The Tonight Show' Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images Olivia Rodrigo has been heavily impacted by the fictional relationship between Sex and the City characters Miranda Hobbs and Steve Brady. Speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, the singer revealed that “multiple songs” on her forthcoming album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, were inspired by the couple.
Rodrigo explained to Fallon that the album’s first single, “Drop Dead,” is about a “really awesome first date” and represents the “first step” of the LP. “The journey definitely ebbs and flows and goes in lots of different places from here, but this is the first chapter,” she said.
She added, “I knew I wanted this record to be about romantic love in more of a positive sense because my last two, obviously, were a little heartbroken and angsty, as they should be. So I knew I wanted to write some kind of love songs, but I also wanted to inject them with a little bit of sadness and longing and melancholy, because all my favorite love songs have that.”
She cited the Cure’s “Love Song” and Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” as two her favorite love songs, calling them “so sad.”
Rodrigo confirmed to Fallon that “there’s actually multiple songs that are inspired by Miranda and Steve.” “It’s my favorite show,” she said. “I think I’ve watched every single episode maybe three times. When Miranda and Steve are getting back together she’s crying and she’s like, ‘Steve, any time something funny I just want to tell you.’ And I remember watching that and being like, ‘Oh my God, I have to write a song about this.'”
