![]() ![]() Rodrigo isn’t new to having folks speculate over the subjects of her songs. But convinced by the lyrics of the grudge.” “I wasn’t on board with vampire being about Taylor swift. “Olivia Rodrigo’s new song ‘The Grudge’ is absolutely about Taylor Swift, right?” tweeted one fan, sharing screenshots of the song’s most pointed lines. The lyrics stood out to many listeners as being reminiscent of Rodrigo’s rumored feud with the elder star, who previously seemed fond of Rodrigo and championed her early success with “Drivers License” prior to the “Deja Vu” debacle. “Ooh, your flowers filled with vitriol/ You built me up to watch me fall/ You have everything and you still want more.” “I have nightmares each week ’bout that Friday in May/ One phone call from you and my entire world was changed,” she sings. The piano ballad finds the 20-year-old pop star reflecting on a soured relationship with someone whom she once admired, admitting at the end that “even after all this, you’re still everything to me.” 8) along with nine other new songs and two previously released singles, “Vampire” and “Bad Idea Right?” on Rodrigo’s sophomore album Guts. She also chose not to confirm or deny whether or not her song “Vampire” was about her onetime idol, though she did confess to feeling “very surprised when people thought” the scathing track was about Swift.Įnter: “The Grudge,” which dropped Friday (Sept. In a recent New York Times profile, for instance, Rodrigo said she’d been too busy to catch a show on Swift’s Eras Tour. Incidentally, the two stars first interacted when Swift shared Rodrigo’s cover of “Cruel Summer” to her Instagram stories and praised it by writing: “THE TALENT! Love This!!! Thanks for this beautiful performance Rodrigo responded excitedly on Twitter, “I AM GONNA FRAME THIS SCREENSHOT AND HANG IT ABOVE MY FIRSTBORN’S CRIB.At the beginning of her music career, Rodrigo passionately identified as a super fan of the “Anti-Hero” singer and even interpolated Swift’s “New Years Day” on another Sour song, “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back.” But since the “Deja Vu” situation, she’s gone radio silent about her Swiftiehood, and even seems to evade questions about Swift in interviews. No doubt a studio session shouldn’t be too far behind! While Swift and Rodrigo have yet to release a song together, Rodrigo did pop up in Swift’s rollout for her Fearless rerelease, and the pair exchanged handwritten letters when they finally met in person at the 2021 BRIT Awards. Rodrigo’s “1 step forward, 3 steps back” interpolates Swift’s song “New Year’s Day” from her album Reputation. ![]() “Deja Vu” is now the second song off of Sour to have a Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff writing credit. Rodrigo and her producer Daniel Nigro are already credited on the track. ![]() Vincent - the three writers credited on “Cruel Summer” - to “Deja Vu” into the metadata on both Spotify and TIDAL, Rolling Stone points out. The young pop star has now made that moment of inspiration official by adding writing credits for Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and St. I feel like they’re super electric and moving, so I wanted to do something like that.” I love the yell-y vocal in it, the harmonized yells she does. It’s widely known that Olivia Rodrigo was heavily inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” while making “Deja Vu.” As she explains in an episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown: “I love ‘Cruel Summer.’ That’s one of my favorite songs ever. ![]()
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