Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records in 2020. She wanted a record deal to give herself ownership of the masters of her music. On January 8, 2021, she released her first song, "Drivers License", which she co-wrote with producer Dan Nigro. A week of its release, "Drivers License" was became popular, and broke Spotify's record twice. One for most daily streams ever for a non-holiday song with over 15.7 million global streams on January 11 and over 17 million global streams the next day. It went on to break another Spotify record for the first song in history to hit 80 million streams in seven days. The song came out at number one on "Billboard" Hot 100, and reached number-one in many countries. Rodrigo said that "It's been the absolute craziest week of my life ... My entire life just, like, [changed] in an instant."