Song about ‘vampires’, people who ‘use others’ would be about relationship with Taylor Swift
Olivia Rodrigo started a new career era with the launch of “Vampire” on June 30th, the first single from GUTStheir second album, set to be released on September 8 via Geffen Records.
After the release, the singer revealed that “Vampire” is “a song full of rage”, with the metaphor being attacked by a male or female vampire to talk about being used by “people” – and fans began to speculate that the song was about her relationship with Taylor Swift.
With the different theories for the lyrics, the BuzzFeed Newsexplained the possible ‘indirect’ Olivia Rodrigo in “Vampire” for Taylor Swift. Check out:
1. Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift
Amidst promotion for their 2021 debut single, “Driver’s License”, Olivia did not hide having Taylor Swift as a great source of inspiration. In fact, during an interview with the Capital FMshe called herself “the greatest Swiftie in all the world”.
Still in 2021, Taylor Swift It is Olivia Rodrigo became friends after exchanging compliments on Instagram and Olivia be presented with a ring from her “idol” as a gift. In May, they took pictures together at the BRIT Awards.
View this photo on InstagramA post shared by Olivia Rodrigo (@oliviarodrigo)
Weeks after the release of their debut album, fans noticed that taylor had been retroactively credited on the single “Deja Vu”. taylor and his team (the producer Jack Antonoff and the singer St. Vincent) claimed credit due to similarities with “Cruel Summer”. They earn 50% of the royalties for the song.
Prior to this order, Olivia had already spontaneously given co-authorship to taylor in another song: “1 step forward, 3 steps back” has already been released with Swift in the credits, because it has a chord sequence of “New Year’s Day”from disk Reputation (2017).
Taking into account the credits on the two songs of Olivia, taylor received nominations alongside the Olivia in every Grammy category in which sour he appeared. However, the Recording Academy backtracked and withdrew Taylor and his producer’s names.
although neither taylor or Olivia have won in the category Album of the Yearthe whole debacle sparked speculation of a falling out and fans noted that the two haven’t publicly interacted since.
In October 2021, the Rolling Stone USA brought together Olivia It is Alanis Morissette in the program Musicians on Musicians. at the meeting, Alanis advised Olivia to be careful with false friendships (and with “mean girls” in the music industry) and to trust more in those who knew her before fame.
“There was a lot of bullying and a lot of jealousy and a lot of people that I loved my whole life but girls were mean to me.” Olivia responded, “The same happened to me!”
In March of this year, Taylor Swift announced Sabrina Carpenter as an opening artist for the concerts on the tour The Eras Tour, including the presentations that will take place in Brazil in November. The artists became friends soon after the Grammy 2022.
the ratio of taylor with Sabrina further increased the rumors of the discussion between Olivia Rodrigosince Olivia It is Sabrina formed an alleged love triangle with the actor Joshua Bassett. The troubled relationship with her ex and the traumatic end of the relationship were themes of Olivia’s praised debut album.
There is also the excerpt “you only come out at night”, which would have to do with the most recent album by taylor, Midnightsabout sleepless nights that yielded stories told in the lyrics.
Source: Rollingstone
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