JoIn just two weeks, three Disney stars have surrounded the old and the young in their strange love triangle.
On January 7, Olivia Rodrigo, known for her performance and singing at Disney Bizaardvark and Disney + High School Musical: The musical: the series, released the “driver’s license”, a heartbreaking song that not only shot immediately at number 1 of the Billboard Hot 100, but also broke Spotify’s record twice on most daily songs of a non-festive song. The song quickly became a nocturnal phenomenon, with TikTok users creating millions of videos recreating the music video or telling the drama behind it.
The ripped story of the song’s headlines only added to the audience’s obsession. Rodrigo has been a Taylor Swift fan since he was a kid boyand Swift’s songwriting style has clearly inspired Rodrigo, who has taken advantage of specific details from his life to tell the universal story of lost love. “I got my driver’s license last week, just like we always talked about it / because you were so excited to finally get up to your house,” he sings, later singing of seeing the boy everywhere, especially in all the white cars. . Fans picked it up quickly, noting that Rodrigo said in an interview that it was rumored that his old flame (and High School Musical co-star) Joshua Bassett taught him to drive with his white car.
But perhaps the most indicative lyrics come when Rodrigo sings, “I bet you’re with that blonde girl, who always made me doubt / she’s much older than me, that’s all I’m insecure about,” because, apparently, Bassett era recently seen with a “much older” blonde girl, four years old, which is practically a decade for a 17-year-old like Rodrigo.
Enter Sabrina Carpenter, record artist and protagonist of Girl Meets World and those on Netflix Work it out. This is the rumored “blonde girl” because she and Bassett were seen together at the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer and having dinner in California, a year after Bassett allegedly wrote a love song about Rodrigo called “Anyone Else” in her Salt Lake City. apartment while filming HSMTMTS, with which Rodrigo nods: “I guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me” to “driver’s license.” Rodrigo and Bassett seemed to be in good condition until the end of April, when Rodrigo he liked Bassett’s tweet urging his followers to “remember someone you love right now.” But in August, Rodrigo posted on TikTok about “failed relationships.”
In an attempt to tell his side of the story, Carpenter, 21, released “Skin” last week, which has no self-awareness, especially considering it’s the big one in this situation. In “Skin,” she sings, “Maybe we could pretend there’s no gravity in the words we write / Maybe you didn’t mean it, maybe” blonde “was the only rhyme,” and later, “You can try to get me under mine, under mine, under my skin / As long as it’s mine. ”Bassett later praised the song on his Instagram and wrote,” I’ve been stuck in my head ever since I heard it !!! “
Oh, and Bassett has a song too. His name is “Lie Lie Lie” and although he wrote in his Instagram story that he is a “friend”, fans think he is Rodrigo. In it, he sings, “So you’re telling them it’s my fault / this time you’re the victim,” and in his attached music video Bassett hangs a car window, reflecting what Rodrigo does in his music video.
Both Rodrigo and Carpenter have cited Lorde and Swift as inspirations for composing songs: “Taylor Swift is my composing idol and I wouldn’t be half the woman and a composer I am today without her,” Rodrigo told NME . Carpenter said in an interview, “I think Lorde is an amazing lyricist and someone I always look for and also musically, he does his things in his own lane.” As for Bassett, he says John Mayer is his inspiration.
Somehow, by the grace of God or the good publicists, or possibly both, the three artists have released their own song about the love triangle in a matter of two weeks. Not only that, but apparently Rodrigo and Bassett put aside their hatred as they promoted HSMTM: the holiday special in December, even praising his prolific songwriting skills.
“Somehow, by the grace of God or the good publicists, or possibly both, the three artists have released their own song about the love triangle in a matter of two weeks.”
Rodrigo, Bassett and Carpenter are far from the first young lovers to put their real-life drama into the song. In 2008, an 18-year-old Swift continued Ellen Show to tell the host and her millions of viewers that Joe Jonas, a bandit, broke up with her in a 25-second phone call and that he had written a song about it: “Forever and Always,” which he won a Grammy album Without fear. There were also other songs, like “Better Than Revenge,” where Swift sang about another girl “stealing” her boyfriend. “She’s not a saint and she’s not what you think, she’s an actress / She’s best known for the things she does on the mattress,” Swift sang. The Jonas brothers fired back with “Much better,” which he nodded at Swift and all the “tears on the guitar” and the “much better” the new girl had. The rumored “much better” girl was actress Camilla Belle, who doesn’t write songs, so we may never know her side of the story. (However, when Swift gets bad press, Belle usually tweets).
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake also played this game with “Cry Me A River” and “Everytime.” But the alleged other man in this situation, Wade Robson, was just a dancer, so he never had a chance to sing the blues or release a Spears similar to a music video. Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan and Aaron Carter commented to each other in the press and others SNL about her love triangle, but as for the songs, there was only Duff’s “Haters,” where she sang, “You say your boyfriend is sweet and kind / But you have your eyes set on mine.”
Rodrigo may not have gotten the boy in the end, but she did did receives Swift approval. “I say this is my baby and I’m very proud,” Swift said he commented in Rodrigo’s Instagram photo.