Olivia Rodrigo has damaged her silence a few supposed Taylor Swift “feud” because the pair got here nose to nose on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards pink carpet in New York.
O-Rod, 20, cleared the air earlier than shimmering on the pink carpet in a disco ball silver costume, whereas Swift made a shock look as she legged it in a black thigh excessive button costume.
Hours earlier than the showbiz showdown, Rodrigo cleared the air as her second album Guts swept the charts – outselling your entire prime 10 within the UK.
Rodrigo insisted there may be “nothing to say” a few rumoured Swift feud – with the pair continuously in contrast.
Instead, the Drivers License singer cited the Bad Blood hitmaker as an inspiration early in her profession and mentioned they exchanged handwritten letters.
Fans later speculated their friendship had soured after Taylor and her co-writer Jack Antonoff got two writing credit on Olivia’s debut album Sour, for 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back and Deja Vu, which have been influenced by New Years Day and Cruel Summer respectively.
However, Olivia has insisted she has no “beef” with anybody.
Asked in regards to the rumoured feud, she informed Rolling Stone journal: “I don’t have beef with anyone. I’m very chill. I keep to myself. I have my four friends and my mom, and that’s really the only people I talk to, ever. There’s nothing to say.
“There’s so many Twitter conspiracy theories. I only look at alien conspiracy theories.”
Asked in regards to the credit, which additionally included one for Paramore on Good 4 U, she added: “I was a little caught off guard.
“At the time it was very confusing, and I was green and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Is that the phrase?”
“It’s not something that I was super involved in. It was more team-on-team. So, I wouldn’t be the best person to ask.”
One artist Olivia does admire is Dua Lipa.
She gushed: “I’m so excited for her next album, I actually can’t wait.”
Of the Levitating hitmaker’s efficiency on the 2021 Grammy Awards, she added: “It’s so f****** good. I remember watching it on the TV and melting on the floor. Killed it. So tight and clean. They must have worked their asses off making that. I literally couldn’t do it.”
And the 20-year-old star can also be an enormous fan of Lorde.
She mentioned: “I remember hearing Royals on the radio. I was like, ‘Wow, you can make a song about anything that you’re feeling.’ It doesn’t have to be this break-up song.
“She wrote an album about what it was like to be 15 in the suburbs and feeling lost.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
