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Olivia Rodrigo isn’t mincing phrases a couple of “bloodsucker, famef—ker” on her new track, “Vampire” — however can Joshua Bassett lastly relaxation simple?
Greater than two years after going viral along with her hit “Drivers License,” which spawned countless on-line discourse a couple of potential love triangle between Rodrigo, Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter, the 20-year-old “Brutal” songstress dropped the primary single from her sophomore album on Friday, June 30, and followers consider she has new inspiration.
A number of indicators level to Rodrigo penning “Vampire” about DJ Zack Bia. “I ought to’ve recognized it was unusual / You solely come out at evening / I used to assume I used to be good / However you made me look so naive,” she sings within the refrain. “The best way you offered me for elements / As you sunk your enamel into me, oh / Bloodsucker, famef—ker / Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire.”
Whereas she was first noticed with Bia in April 2022, a number of stories counsel that they started hanging out across the time of the Tremendous Bowl in February 2022. Us Weekly confirmed in August 2022 that the pair had known as it quits, which places their romance at roughly six months.
“I see the events and the diamonds typically once I shut my eyes / Six months of torture you offered as some forbidden paradise,” the lyrics to “Vampire” learn. “I liked you actually / You gotta chuckle on the stupidity.”
Shortly earlier than Rodrigo began courting Bia, he was linked to Madelyn Cline. (He confirmed on the “BFFs” podcast in January 2022 that he had been “hanging out” with the Outer Banks star, however they weren’t “formally courting.”) In “Vampire,” Rodrigo sings about an age distinction — Bia is seven years older than her — and notes one other lady who’s nearer to his age. (Bia turned 27 earlier this month and Cline is 25.)
“Oh, what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, f—ked up little thrill / Can’t work out simply the way you do it and God is aware of I by no means will / Went for me and never her / ‘Trigger women your age know higher,” she says.
Rodrigo hasn’t publicly addressed who she penned “Vampire” about, however she mentioned in an Apple Music interview that she wrote the monitor along with her producer Dan Nigro in December 2022.
“I wrote the track on the piano, tremendous chill, in December of final yr. And my producer Dan and I completed it in January and completed writing it,” she defined. “And I’ve simply all the time been actually obsessive about songs which are very dynamic. My favourite songs are excessive and low, and reel you in and spit you again out. And so we wished to do a track the place it simply crescendoed the complete time and it displays the pent-up anger that you’ve got for a scenario.”
Whereas some followers have already flooded Bia’s social media pages with shade — writing feedback like, “Do you solely come out at evening maybe” and “What tf do you’ve got in frequent with somebody underneath 20?” — different listeners are suggesting Rodrigo might be singing about ex Adam Faze.
The Disney alum dated the producer for lower than one yr — information of their cut up broke in February 2022, roughly seven months after they had been seen collectively for the primary time in June 2021. (There are Twitter customers suggesting June 30 might be the two-year anniversary of when their relationship began.) Like Bia, Faze, now 26, is older than Rodrigo. On the time of their romance, Rodrigo was 18.
It’s additionally price noting that Rodrigo is a self-proclaimed Twihard — and “Vampire” may draw some inspiration from the Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart movies fairly than her real-life romances.
As the net chatter continues, Rodrigo prepares to drop her second album, Guts, on September 8. “I had [the title picked out] really once I was making Bitter. I’m like, ‘I need the subsequent one to be Guts.’ I had it in my head. I’m like, ‘4 letters, all caps, identical to Bitter.’ I adore it. I simply assume it’s an fascinating phrase. Folks use it in so many fascinating contexts, like spill your guts. Hate your guts, I believe is a very fascinating time period,” she instructed Zane Lowe. “[It] means bravery, however it additionally means instinct, like hearken to your intestine. I simply assume it’s all of this stuff that coincidentally had been issues that I’ve actually been desirous about on this chapter.”
She additionally famous that the album chronicles her “nineteenth yr” — a superb signal for Bassett, who continued on Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Collection after Rodrigo’s exit amid her musical success.
“A yr that, for me, was full of a lot of confusion, errors, awkwardness and good quaint teen angst,” she instructed followers earlier this month. “I can not categorical how excited I’m to embark on this new chapter of my life with you guys.”
