(L-R) Olivia Rodrigo as well as Taylor Swift participate in The BRIT Awards 2021 at The O2 Arena on May 11, 2021 in London, England. JMEnternational/JMEnternational for BRIT Awards/Getty Images
Is Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Vampire” concerning … Taylor Swift? Rodrigo discussed fan speculation that the lead ballad from Guts, on which she scathingly sings concerning an unrevealed “bloodsucker, famef—er,” is in some way concerning among her childhood years idolizers.
“How do I answer this?” Rodrigo apparently murmured to Guardian reporter Laura Snapes, when the concern concerning “Vampire” occurred throughout an interview in advance of the Sept. 8 launch of Guts.
“I mean, I never want to say who any of my songs are about,” stated Rodrigo. “I’ve never done that before in my career and probably won’t. I think it’s better to not pigeonhole a song to being about this one thing.”
“I was very surprised when people thought that,” she included the short article that was released on Saturday (Sept. 2).
Swift championed Rodrigo, that was a self-proclaimed Swiftie, really early. “I say that’s my baby and I’m really proud,” she gently shared on social networks when Rodrigo’s outbreak knockout “Drivers License” initially began showing up on graphes beside Swift’s songs. Swift gifted her a ring like the one she put on when servicing her Red cd — “She is absolutely the kindest individual in the whole world,” Rodrigo spurted at the time — as well as both fulfilled face to face as well as positioned with each other for a cute photo at the 2021 Brit Awards.
After Rodrigo’s launching cd, Sour, went down, interpolations located in her job proved costly. Rodrigo wound up retroactively sharing songwriting credit scores for “deja vu” with Swift, Jack Antonoff, as well as Annie Clark (also known as St. Vincent) for its memory of Swift’s “Cruel Summer.” She additionally provided writing credits to Swift as well as Antonoff on “1 step forward, 3 steps back” prior to Sour‘s release for including an interpolation of Swift’s “New Year’s Day” on the track.
Rodrigo as well as Swift relatively haven’t connected with each various other considering that, at the very least openly. In a current New York Times profile, Rodrigo stated she hasn’t seen a program on Swift’s Eras Tour.
Back to the track significance of “Vampire”: To her factor, Rodrigo’s verses can have been motivated by a variety of individual experiences the singer-songwriter could have come across considering that “Drivers License” made its mark in 2021 — so her response to the concern doesn’t actually address a lot whatsoever.
“Hate to give the satisfaction, asking how you’re doing now/ How’s the castle built off people you pretend to care about?” she sings in the opening of the track.
Later in the account concerning Rodrigo as well as her student cd, Guardian author Snapes, in her very own words, notes that “‘Vampire’ is primarily about a romantic relationship with an older guy.” Many of its lyrical barbs do factor towards this analysis: there’s a line guided at a “cool guy,” as well as one explaining that “every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad, bad news.” In the track’s 2nd knowledgeable, Rodrigo states, “Went for me, and not her/ ‘Cause girls your age know better.”
Read the complete item at The Guardian here.
