Olivia Rodrigo speaks out about the Taylor Swift scandal

Olivia Rodrigo unleashes a fiery barrage of lyrical missiles aimed at nameless targets on her heartbreaking and gripping second album: GUTS. But if you ask the 20-year-old Grammy winner to clarify who she’s targeting with her lyrics, the singer growls, “I wanna meet his mom / Just so I can tell her her son sucks.” Bring him back! The new album isn’t going to do that. As it happens in a new Rolling Stone article, in which interviewer Angie Martocchio tries to get an answer to the burning question of whether Olivia Rodrigo is currently feuding with her mentor Taylor Swift.

“I don’t have a problem with anyone,” Olivia Rodrigo said of Taylor Swift.. They also exchanged letters. Swift gave Rodrigo the ring she wore during recording Red and the singer later acknowledged Taylor (as well as producer Jack Antonoff) as a co-writer of the songs Sour 1 step forward, 3 steps back

ke Deja vu.

Olivia Rodrigo on Taylor Swift: ‘I have nothing to say’

“I’m very calm. I keep to myself,” explained Olivia Rodrigo. Despite hot rumors that the song GUTS Discontent talked about a quarrel with Taylor Swift, as happened with A vampire. “I have four friends and my mother, and they are the only people with whom I constantly communicate. Nothing to say. There are a lot of conspiracy theories on Twitter. I only look at conspiracy theories about aliens.”

When asked how co-writing her debut came about, Olivia Rodrigo demurred. “It’s not something I was particularly involved in.”” he said, without specifying whether his hand was forced into the matter. “It was more of a team effort. So I wouldn’t be the best person to ask.”

The interview also reveals Katy Perry’s testimony about the intense pressure she felt while working on her debut album, and recalls facing similar suffering during recording. Teenager’s dream 2010. “You have your whole life to make your first record and then maybe two years to make your second. While you’re going through real psychological changes,” Katy Perry said, adding that she offered to be Olivia Rodrigo’s pop music mentor and sounding board.

For reference: Olivia Rodrigo said that although in GUTS there’s a song called Teenage Dream – and she calls Perry’s album of the same name one of her favorites – it was pure coincidence. “We were thinking about changing the name,” he said. “If anyone is looking for Teenager’s dream There’s no chance my song will show up first on Spotify.”

Olivia Rodrigo also emphasized that the goal GUTS should have made a more “game” record than his debut album, Sourwhich she said was “definitely a breakup record, much to my chagrin.”

Is Drivers License about a love triangle?

One topic that Olivia Rodrigo didn’t want to touch on was the suggestion that her breakthrough hit from this album Driver’s licensewould be inspired by a love triangle which would have featured her, her former High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star Joshua Bassett, and another Disney actress/singer, Sabrina Carpenter.

“I mean, this is a sore point. I actually didn’t read the article you’re talking about,” the actress said of the 2022 article in which Bassett claimed she was having a serious health crisis due to backlash from strangers over an alleged love triangle.

. “But yeah, it was all really crazy. Everything was decided privately. “Managed” is not the right word, but I don’t like to talk about it publicly. I take all these things seriously, but they happen in private. I’m not going to make a statement. It’s a lie. In the end, we are all human. I deal with personal things that people on Twitter don’t see.”