Songfacts®:

• Love's a wild ride, and Olivia Rodrigo gets real about its crazy twists and turns in this track. She sings about a relatable feeling: loving someone so deeply that you're blinded to all their flaws and the drama that comes with it. Love can mess with your head, make you ignore the facts, and toss logic out the window.
• The song kicks off with Rodrigo enduring so much from a boyfriend who treats her like a pawn in his game. Talk about a master manipulator - he has her wrapped around his finger.
  
  But it doesn't stop there. Rodrigo paints a picture of a relationship where she's fed lies until she starts doubting reality itself.
  
  And then there's that moment when you question everything, "'Does two plus two really equal five?" Rodrigo is made to believe she's the love of his life even when it's obvious he's playing games.
  
  In the outro, Rodrigo assigns herself some of the blame for not ending it.
• Rodrigo recorded "Logical" for her second album, Guts. Both this song and the record's lead single, "Vampire," are about Rodrigo being gaslit by an older man. She seethes on "Logical":
  
  Said I was too young
  I was too soft
  Can't take a joke
  Can't get you off
  
  Rodrigo even uses the same metaphor on both songs to describe how her ex-boyfriend would normally act.
  
  On "Logical":
  You built a giant castle
  With walls so high I couldn't see
  
  On "Vampire":
  How's the castle built off people you pretend to care about?
  
  Also, she ends the second verse of "Logical" with:
  
  The way it all unraveled
  And all the things you did to me
  You lied, you lied, you lied, oh
  
  On "Vampire" she sings:
  How do you lie without flinching?
  How do you lie? How do you lie? How do you lie?
  
• So who is this dude? In her late teens, Rodrigo had two whirlwind romances with guys older than her.
  
  First in line was producer Adam Faze, who was 24 when Rodrigo was 18. Their love story lasted a solid seven months. Then came socialite Zack Bia, who was 26 while Rodrigo was 19.
  
  Rodrigo fans have been piecing the puzzle together, thinking she might be spilling the beans on her romance with Bia. They believe the first verse holds the key to this love mystery:
  
  Hear all the rumors lately
  That you always denied
  And I fell for you like water
  Falls from the February sky
  
  Rodrigo and Bia's hot romance sizzled for six months, kicking off at a Super Bowl afterparty in February 2022. And before Rodrigo, Bia was in a two-year relationship with singer-songwriter Madison Beer until they called it quits in 2019. Beer even dropped a track, "Selfish," that seems to throw shade at their relationship.
• Rodrigo co-wrote "Logical" with her producer Dan Nigro and singer-songwriter Julia Michaels (Justin Bieber's "Sorry," Hailee Steinfeld's "Love Myself," Selena Gomez's "Lose You to Love Me").
  
  "I'd been wanting to write the song 'Logical' for a really long time," Rodrigo told Rolling Stone. "I've had that little line, 'love is never logical,' for a really long time, I think it's very poignant and Double-L, which I like. One day, we just got in the studio and wrote it, and I love all of the metaphors and the visuals that you see when you hear the song. I think it's quite interesting in that way, and the bridge is probably my favorite part of the song. I like the bridge."
• Nigro's production plays a crucial role in untangling Rodrigo's complex emotions. The piano ballad builds layer upon layer, strategically pulling back at just the right moments to intensify the emotional punch.
  
  As the song winds down, the outro strips away most of the instruments, shining a spotlight on Rodrigo's vulnerability. It's in this raw moment that she takes some of the blame for allowing her ex to mistreat her.
• Olivia Rodrigo met her best friend Madison Hu when they starred together in the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark. "Logical" is based on a discussion they had about one of Hu's relationships during a night out. "She actually said in conversation 'it's just not logical, it's just not logical,'" Rodrigo told Radio 1's Live Lounge. "I actually stole her life experience for the song. I was like, 'wow that's interesting, let me write that down. So I owe her a lot."