"It comes with the territory," the singer said of the gossip.
Fans are always going to wonder about how Olivia Rodrigo really feels about Taylor Swift, but the Gen Z pop star has made her peace with that.
While appearing on the Thursday (May 28) episode of New York Times podcast Popcast, Rodrigo acknowledged the perpetual speculation about where she stands with Swift, the person whom she used to praise effusively as her childhood idol before retroactively giving the Eras Tour headliner songwriting credits on Sour single “Deja Vu” in 2021, after which people noticed Rodrigo stopped mentioning Swift altogether. Many have speculated that Swift’s camp may have strong-armed the former Disney Channel star into crediting her on the Billboard Hot 100 No. 3 hit, causing a rift between the two stars.
“I don’t really read too far into it,” Rodrigo said when discussing the fan theories surrounding the situation. “I think it comes with the territory, and it’s par for the course. If I dove into every internet detective sleuth that got things right or wrong about my life or any of my relationships, I think I’d just go crazy. There’s not enough time in the day.”
She also touched on the way her prior openness about being a grade-A Swiftie seemingly backfired on her when the songwriting credit business went down. After all, it was three months after Rodrigo raved about Swift’s “Cruel Summer” while breaking down how “Deja Vu” came together for a Rolling Stone video in April 2021 that the latter song’s credits underwent the change to add Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent. (About a month after that, the credits on Rodrigo’s Hot 100 No. 1 “Good 4 U” also updated to include Paramore for the song’s similarities to the punk-rock band’s “Misery Business.”)
