Olivia Rodrigo Jokes About Taylor Swift Song Credit Issue During Concert

Having sung about how her as soon as “undying love” is now held like a grudge, Olivia Rodrigo can joke in regards to the songwriting drama between her and Taylor Swift.

Rodrigo, 20, and her co-writer/producer Dan Nigro, hosted an intimate present at The Theater at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. on October 9, in line with Billboard. The live performance gave Rodrigo and Nigro, 41, an opportunity to carry out songs off her new album, Guts, whereas sharing how the tracks got here collectively.

While discussing “Teenage Dream,” Rodrigo stated they needed to comply with her debut album, Sour, by having one other piano ballad as an album nearer. Nigro additionally famous that his then 5-month-old daughter, Saoirse, is featured on the track, although she didn’t get credit score.

“Uh-oh,” stated Rodrigo “with a knowing laugh,” per Billboard. “There’s gonna be some issues there.”

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The joke was an obvious reference to the songwriting credit score drama associated to Sour. After the album was launched, Swift, 33, and her collaborators Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent acquired a songwriting credit score for Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” because of the track’s similarity to Swift’s “Cruel Summer.” Swift additionally bought a songwriting credit score on Rodrigo’s “1 Step Forward” because of the obvious affect of Taylor’s “New Year’s Day.”

Swift and her crew weren’t the one ones retroactively credited on Sour. Paramore’s Hayley Willams and her former bandmate Josh Farro had been added to the “Good 4 U” credit because of the track’s likeness to “Misery Business,” arguably Paramore’s greatest track.

The credit score “issue” resulted in Rodrigo giving each bands/acts 50 % of the credit and royalties for the respective tracks. When talking about this expertise with The Guardian and the way it presumably affected her songwriting on Guts, Rodrigo stated, “I was so green as to how the music industry worked, the litigious side … I feel like now I know so much more about the industry and I just feel … better equipped in that regard. It wasn’t something I thought about too much.”

During that very same interview, Rodrigo addressed the fan hypothesis that “Vampire,” the primary single from Guts, was about Swift. With lyrics like “bloodsucker, fame f—ker, bleedin’ me dry like a goddamn vampire,” and Swift recruiting Sabrina Carpenter – the long-rumored different concerned within the “Drivers License” love triangle with Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett – to open for her on the South American leg of The Eras Tour, followers puzzled if Rodrigo had a falling out together with her idol.

“I mean, I never want to say who any of my songs are about. 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,” she informed The Guardian. “I was very surprised when people thought that.”