#HoneybeeOliviaRodrigo is the tag for “honeybee,” the third track on Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, released June 12, 2026 on Geffen Records. Written by Rodrigo and produced by longtime collaborator Dan Nigro, the song debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and powered one of the softest, most-shared TikTok trends of summer 2026 — the “Baby Boy Honey Bee” carousel.
Quick Facts
- Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
- Album: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (June 12, 2026, Geffen Records) — track 3
- Producer / co-writer: Dan Nigro
- Backing vocals: Conan Gray, Dan Nigro, Lily Elise
- Chart peak: No. 9 Billboard Hot 100 (chart week of June 27, 2026)
The Song
“honeybee” (stylized in all lowercase) sits in the softer half of the You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love tracklist and features Rodrigo’s close friend Conan Gray on backing vocals. Rodrigo has said in interviews it is one of her favorite tracks on the record, and that it ties thematically to the album’s closing song, “Cigarette Smoke.” The lyric that drives the song’s TikTok afterlife — “baby boy, honeybee, god I love the way you look at me” — treats devotion as something so intense it edges into fear of losing the person.
The TikTok Trend
Almost immediately after the album’s release, TikTok users built a carousel format around the “baby boy, honeybee” verse. The dominant version pairs the lyric with photos or short clips of a baby or partner giving a doting look at the camera, riding the tension between the lyric’s tenderness and its underlying dread. The Baby Boy Honey Bee format became one of the release week’s stickiest song-to-trend translations, spreading beyond music-TikTok into parenting and couples corners of the app.
Chart Performance
“honeybee” debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart week of June 27, 2026 — one of several album cuts that entered the top 20 the same week, part of the release-week traffic driven by the lead single #DropDead and the album’s broader #OliviaIsComing rollout campaign.
Cultural Impact
Where #DropDead delivered the album’s chart-record headline, “honeybee” delivered its most-imitated micro-moment. The Baby Boy Honey Bee trend gave the softer, less-obvious tracks on the record a route to audiences who wouldn’t have found them via radio, and reinforced #OliviaRodrigo’s pattern of producing album cuts that break out on TikTok independently of official singles.
Variations & Related Tags
The song trends under #honeybee, #BabyBoyHoneyBee, and the album umbrella #OliviaIsComing, which lists YouSeemPrettySad among its aliases.