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Olivia Rodrigo Rocks Out to Lorde’s ‘What Was That’ in Washington Square Park

Olivia Rodrigo praised Lorde's new song, "What Was That," sharing a video of herself rocking out to the track in Washington Square Park.

Less than 24 hours after the New Zealand pop star dropped her comeback single “What Was That,” the “Vampire” singer shared her review of the track while posting a video of herself jamming out to it in New York City. In a TikTok posted Friday (April 25), Rodrigo films herself frolicking around Washington Square Park — an homage to the music video for “What Was That,” which dropped the day prior and also found Lorde strutting through the famous location — while passionately singing along to every lyric. In 2024, she praised Lorde’s 2013 debut album Pure Heroine during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussion, saying, “I love that record so much, and I remember listening to it as I first started writing songs and just being blown away by her lyrics that are just about being a teenager living in the suburbs … It just made being young and doing these seemingly unimportant things feel so sacred.”

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