Welcome to Chillers, the ongoing series where we take a look at songs that give me goosebumps. Beginning in 2026, new entries will be posted weekly on WordPress with an automatic cross-post to Bluesky.

Vampire was one of the biggest hits from Olivia Rodrigo’s wildly successful follow-up to SOUR, the aptly titled GUTS. Like much of the album, the track centers on a complicated relationship, but this time Rodrigo sharpens the emotional edges into something venomous and cathartic.

The narrator sings with bitterness, regret, and a clarity born only after the damage has been done. She mocks the women who tried to warn her, laments the version of herself she abandoned, and confronts the painful truth that she allowed someone else to drain her dry — the “bloodsucker,” the “fame fucker,” the metaphorical vampire who took and took until nothing remained.

It’s a retrospective on the way love can make us blind, willing to ignore glaring faults until the aftermath forces the truth into focus. Vampire is both a confession and a reclamation — a furious exhale after realizing just how much was taken.

It hits hard. And it deserves its place here among the songs that give me chills.