#WhatsWrongWithMe is the hashtag for “what’s wrong with me,” the Olivia Rodrigo duet with Robert Smith of The Cure that anchors the second half of her June 12, 2026 album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. It is the first guest vocal appearance on any Rodrigo studio album, arriving after months of Cure-coded easter eggs in her singles rollout.
The Song
“what’s wrong with me” is track 10 on Rodrigo’s third studio album, released June 12, 2026 on Geffen Records. Lyrically, Rodrigo trades verses with Smith on a relationship coming apart and the mental-health cost of holding it together — the ambivalence sitting in the title itself. Musically, it leans heavily on Smith’s signature Cure atmospherics: gauzy guitars, a lonesome bass figure, and the interplay between his baritone and Rodrigo’s higher register.
Quick Facts
- Artists: Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith (The Cure)
- Released: June 12, 2026 (Geffen Records)
- Album: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (track 10)
- Producer: Dan Nigro
- First live performance: Primavera Sound, Barcelona — June 6, 2026
The Primavera Sound Reveal
Rodrigo debuted the song with Smith during her headline set at #PrimaveraSound in Barcelona on June 6, 2026, six days before the album dropped. She had teased that a “very special guest” would join her, and the Smith reveal drew a roar from the crowd; clips of the duet’s live premiere spread across TikTok and X within minutes and became the album cycle’s biggest pre-release moment. Rolling Stone, Variety, and Consequence all led with the surprise appearance.
The Cure Thread
The collaboration reads as the payoff to a running Cure motif across the album cycle. Lead single #DropDead opens with a direct reference to “Just Like Heaven,” and the second single is titled “The Cure.” Rodrigo has spoken repeatedly in interviews about Smith as a formative songwriting influence — the #OliviaIsComing rollout was thick with Cure-adjacent imagery — and “what’s wrong with me” cashes those references in with Smith actually singing on the record.
Cultural Impact
For #OliviaRodrigo, the duet marks a deliberate widening of her aperture: her first two albums SOUR and GUTS pointedly featured no guests, and breaking that pattern with a Cure frontman rather than a peer pop star signaled where her tastes actually sit. For Smith, the appearance introduced The Cure’s catalog to a younger streaming audience already primed by the “Drop Dead” sample — Rodrigo’s fan base and The Cure’s legacy fandom collided in the song’s comments, streaming numbers, and Genius annotations. Critics singled it out as an emotional high point of the album.
Variations & Related Tags
The track trended under #WhatsWrongWithMe, #OliviaTheCure, and the umbrella #OliviaIsComing, #OliviaRodrigo, and #DropDead.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Wrong_with_Me
- https://variety.com/2026/music/news/olivia-rodrigo-robert-smith-duet-whats-wrong-with-me-cure-1236768701/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/olivia-rodrigo-the-cure-robert-smith-whats-wrong-with-me-1235573569/
- https://consequence.net/2026/06/olivia-rodrigo-robert-smith-whats-wrong-with-me-you-seem-pretty-sad-for-a-girl-so-in-love-stream/