Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift. Courtesy of Olivia Rodrigo/Instagram
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 reveals.
“I haven’t but,” Rodrigo, 20, instructed The New York Instances in a profile printed on Thursday, August 24, citing her busy schedule as the rationale she hasn’t been noticed in Swift’s VIP tent. (Rodrigo instructed 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 greatest. Rodrigo even earned reward from her idol in 2020 after protecting the Lover observe “Merciless Summer time.”
“THE TALENT,” Swift wrote through her Instagram Story on the time. “Love This!!! Thanks for this lovely efficiency @olivia.rodrigo @mtv.”
An overwhelmed Rodrigo later took to Twitter together with her response to Swift’s shout-out, joking that she wished to border a screenshot of the Story and “dangle it above my firstborn’s crib.”
Rodrigo and Swift ultimately linked in individual on the 2021 Brit Awards, exchanging handwritten notes to 1 one other. “It’s so loopy to me these folks I regarded as much as are actually my friends,” Rodrigo gushed to Ryan Seacrest in March 2021 after the meetup.
Nonetheless, the pair’s friendship appeared to shift following the discharge of Rodrigo’s debut album, Bitter, two months later. Eagle-eyed followers seen that Swift and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff have been subtly given songwriting credit on Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” and “1 Step Ahead, 3 Steps Again.”
Whereas neither Swift nor Antonoff, 39, truly labored with Rodrigo on the tracks, Rolling Stone reported in Could 2021 that “1 Step Ahead, 3 Steps Again” is an interpolation of Swift’s Status ballad “New 12 months’s Day.” (Some listeners have been additionally satisfied that the digits chosen by Rodrigo for the track’s title have been a nod to Swift’s fortunate quantity, 13.)
As for “Deja Vu,” Rodrigo revealed that the only was loosely impressed by “Merciless Summer time,” telling Rolling Stone’s “The Breakdown” she wished to “do one thing like” Swift’s 2019 hit.
Hypothesis of pressure 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, have 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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Whereas Rodrigo hasn’t but witnessed Swift’s three-hour stadium present, a number of A-listers have 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 have been on Karlie Kloss in the course of the remaining live performance on August 9. (Swift and Kloss, 31, have been BFFs for years earlier than an alleged falling out in 2017.)
