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“I actually cried when I heard his version of this song. I’m stoked!!”: David Byrne has covered Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License

DAVID BYRNE AND OLIVIA RODRIGO.

That thing Olivia Rodrigo was teasing the other day with her updated website depicting a US driver's license? It turns out that she wasn’t trailing her third album after all, but an intriguing covers project.

The first song to be released as part of it will be David Byrne’s interpretation of her breakthrough hit, er Drivers License. It will be the first of a number of covers leading up to the fifth anniversary of her debut album Sour, in May. Rodrigo announced the project on Instagram yesterday, saying: “SOUR is turning 5 years old this year! and to celebrate, I’m so excited to announce an upcoming series of reimagined SOUR covers from some of my favourite artists ever.”

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