Madison Beer credited Olivia Rodrigo for an uptick in music streams after the 2 girls allegedly wrote breakup tracks about mutual ex Zack Bia.
“Thank [you] miss olivia <3,” Beer, 24, commented in a since-deleted tweet on Tuesday, July 4, in response to Pop Crave’s stats that exposed her 2021 monitor “Egocentric” had seen a rise in downloads since Rodrigo, 20, launched her new single “Vampire” final week.
Beer additionally praised Rodrigo’s artistry on the monitor, which serves on the debut single off of Rodrigo’s upcoming sophomore album, Guts. When requested her “opinions” on the music, Beer tweeted: “F—king lovely. Actually assume it’s so particular and showcases her progress so amazingly. Actually Actually spectacular.”
When Rodrigo launched “Vampire” on June 30, followers instantly started to invest that the monitor was about Bia, 27. The “Driver’s License” singer and the DJ have been first noticed collectively in April 2022 earlier than Us Weekly confirmed six months later that they’d referred to as it quits.
Previous to his romance with Rodrigo, Bia famously dated Beer on and off for 2 years till their 2019 break up. Whereas Beer by no means shared the explanation for the pair’s breakup, she posted a cryptic message by way of social media on the time, writing by way of Twitter, “Earlier than you diagnose your self with melancholy and nervousness be sure you’re not simply surrounded by a—holes and individuals who don’t care about you.”
Beer later launched “Egocentric,” on which she sings about relationship an individual who received’t be sincere along with her.
Olivia Rodrigo. David Fisher/Shutterstock
“I wager you thought you gave me actual love / However we spent all of it in nightclubs / All you ever wanna do is lie / Why you all the time such a Gemini?” she sings on the monitor. (Bia’s birthday is June 9, which falls beneath the Gemini astrological signal.) The music additionally touches on attempting to assist somebody who refuses to simply accept assist. “I don’t wanna break your thread and needle / Tryna sew you, however I can’t, I refuse / Shouldn’t love you, however I couldn’t assist it / Had a sense that you just by no means felt it / I all the time knew that you just have been too rattling egocentric.”
Rodrigo’s “Vampire,” in the meantime, offers with comparable themes.
“I ought to’ve identified it was unusual / You solely come out at night time / I used to assume I used to be good / However you made me look so naive,” she croons on the refrain. “The way in which you bought me for components / As you sunk your tooth into me, oh / Bloodsucker, famef—ker / Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire.
Madison Beer, Zack Bia. Sansho Scott/BFA/Shutterstock
Each songs additionally trace at infidelity, with Beer singing, “Don’t know why I seemed the opposite means,” whereas Rodrigo declares: “I see the events and the diamonds typically once I shut my eyes / Six months of torture you bought as some forbidden paradise.”
Rodrigo, for her half, calls out an alleged age hole in her relationship. (She and Bia are six years aside.)
“You went for me and never her / As a result of women your age know higher,” she sings.
Whereas neither Rodrigo nor Beer have publicly addressed who their respective songs are about, Rodrigo gave a glimpse at her motive behind “Vampire” after it premiered earlier this month.
“Penning this music helped me kind via a number of emotions of remorse, anger, and heartache. it’s one among my favourite songs on the album and it felt very cathartic to complete,” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I’m so pleased it’s in your fingers now and I hope it helps u take care of any bloodsuckers in your life. all my thanks 4ever ❤️.”
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