Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan have officially joined forces. The pair released a remix of“Expectations”on Thursday, October 15, and paired it with a music video that’s already all over your feed. David Byrne of Talking Heads stars as fictional game-show host Johnny Johnson in the campy, retro-styled visual, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.
The original“Expectations”appears on Rodrigo’s third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which hit number one on the Billboard 200. For the remix, Roan wrote an entirely new verse, flipping the song’s dating-frustration theme toward an unimpressive female suitor. It’s also a milestone moment: this marks Roan’s first-ever feature on another artist’s track.
The two Grammy winners share producer Dan Nigro and have a long history of touring and festival appearances together, so this collaboration feels like it was always meant to happen. With lyrics like“Oh, Olivia does remixes now”and“Past mistakes are just new information,”the track is packed with quotable moments. Which part of the video is your favorite, the game-show set or Chappell’s verse?
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