Olivia Rodrigo has released a new non-album track called "Serena Joy," named after a character from "The Handmaid's Tale" who eventually regrets enabling a repressive patriarchal society. The release coincides with preparations for Daisy Chain Fields, Rodrigo's all-female music festival taking place in Orange County, California, and reinforces the feminist themes she has increasingly embraced in her recent work and public statements.

The song debuted on Friday as an extremely limited CD single, with just 500 copies pressed and sold exclusively through Analog Music Shop in Tustin, California, all of which sold out the same evening. The record store said Rodrigo gave it a three-day head start before wider release, framing the gesture as support for both independent record shops and the festival's mission. A digital version is expected to follow on Monday. The track's existence first surfaced in June, when fans spotted its title among 18 songs considered for Rodrigo's album "You Look Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love," which she later confirmed didn't fit the album's narrative arc but that she hoped would surface elsewhere.