Olivia Rodrigo Brushes Off Question About Seeing Taylor Swift’s Tour

Olivia Rodrigo swiftly redirected the dialog when requested whether or not she’s made it to one in every of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour exhibits.

“I haven’t yet,” Rodrigo, 20, informed The New York Times in a profile printed on Thursday, August 24, citing her busy schedule as the explanation she hasn’t been noticed in Swift’s VIP tent. (Rodrigo informed the outlet she was heading to Europe the week the interview was performed.)

Since she burst onto the scene, Rodrigo has been candid about her many musical inspirations — and has counted Swift, 33, as one of many largest. Rodrigo even earned reward from her idol in 2020 after protecting the Lover observe “Cruel Summer.”

“THE TALENT,” Swift wrote by way of her Instagram Story on the time. “Love This!!! Thanks for this beautiful performance @olivia.rodrigo @mtv.”

An overwhelmed Rodrigo later took to Twitter along with her response to Swift’s shout-out, joking that she needed to border a screenshot of the Story and “hang it above my firstborn’s crib.”

Rodrigo and Swift finally related in individual on the 2021 Brit Awards, exchanging handwritten notes to at least one one other. “It’s so crazy to me these people I looked up to are now my peers,” Rodrigo gushed to Ryan Seacrest in March 2021 after the meetup.

However, the pair’s friendship appeared to shift following the discharge of Rodrigo’s debut album, Sour, two months later. Eagle-eyed followers seen that Swift and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff had been subtly given songwriting credit on Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” and “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back.”

While neither Swift nor Antonoff, 39, truly labored with Rodrigo on the tracks, Rolling Stone reported in May 2021 that “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” is an interpolation of Swift’s Reputation ballad “New Year’s Day.” (Some listeners had been additionally satisfied that the digits chosen by Rodrigo for the tune’s title had been a nod to Swift’s fortunate quantity, 13.)

As for “Deja Vu,” Rodrigo revealed that the only was loosely impressed by “Cruel Summer,” telling Rolling Stone’s “The Breakdown” she needed to “do something like” Swift’s 2019 hit.

Speculation of stress between the 2 artists continued earlier this 12 months when Swift introduced Sabrina Carpenter because the opening act of her Eras Tour concert events in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Rodrigo and Carpenter, 24, had been famously concerned in an alleged love triangle with Joshua Bassett, which is claimed to be the idea of Rodrigo’s debut single, “Drivers License.”

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While Rodrigo hasn’t but witnessed Swift’s three-hour stadium present, a number of A-listers had been noticed within the crowds all through the U.S. tour. Kyle Richards, Channing Tatum, Sofía Vergara and extra turned up for Swift’s performances at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles — however all eyes had been on Karlie Kloss in the course of the closing live performance on August 9. (Swift and Kloss, 31, had been BFFs for years earlier than an alleged falling out in 2017.)