bad idea right?

"bad idea right?" is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo from her forthcoming second studio album, GUTS. Geffen Records released it as the album's second single on August 11, 2023. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro. "Bad Idea Right?" is a rock song with "major '90s pop rock energy" that runs for three minutes and four seconds long. Nigro handled production and vocal production. He engineered the song with Sam Stewart, Dan Viafore, and Sterling Laws. Nigro plays guitar, percussion, vocal production, bass, and drum programming, Stewart plays electric guitar, and Laws plays drums. Spike Stent mixed it with assistance from Matt Wolach. In an email announcing the song to her fans four days earlier, Rodrigo stated "the song is pretty different from 'Vampire' & shows another side of Guts that's a little more fun & playful", expressing excitement for its release. Its artwork, shared the same day, is a hazy image of Rodrigo posing behind a glass wall with its title scrawled in red lipstick in front of her face.