IIn just two weeks, three Disney stars have embraced the old and the young in their bizarre 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 “Driving License”, a pain song that not only immediately filmed at number 1 on Panel Hot 100 but also broke the Spotify record twice for most daily streams of a non-holiday song. The song quickly became an overnight phenomenon, with TikTok users creating millions of videos that recreated the video or explained the drama behind it.
The background story of the song snatched from the titles was only added to the audience’s obsession. Rodrigo has been a Taylor Swift fan ever since child, and Swift’s compositional style clearly inspired Rodrigo, who exploited details specific to his life to tell the universal story of lost love. “I got my driver’s license last week, just like I always talked about it, because you were so excited to go all the way to your house,” she sings, later talking about seeing the guy. everywhere, especially in all white cars. . Fans quickly picked up on this, pointing out that Rodrigo said in an interview that his rumors about the former flame (and High school musical co-star) Joshua Bassett taught her how to drive in her white car.
But maybe the most telling verses come when Rodrigo sings, “I bet you’re with that blonde girl who always made me doubt / she’s much older than me, it’s all I’m insecure about,” because after as it turns out, Bassett was recently seen with a blonde girl who is “much older” – four years old, which is practically a decade for a 17-year-old like Rodrigo.
Enter Sabrina Carpenter, the recording artist and star of The girl meets the world and Netflix Work it. She is rumored to be a “blonde girl” because she and Bassett were seen together at the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer and dined in California – a year after Bassett wrote a love song about Rodrigo called “Anyone Else”. ”In the Salt Lake City apartment during filming HSMTMTS, with which Rodrigo nods: “I don’t think you meant what you wrote in that song about me” in the “driver’s license.” Rodrigo and Bassett seemed to be on good terms until the end of April, when Rodrigo I liked Bassett’s tweet urging his followers to “remind someone that you love him right now.” But in August, Rodrigo posted on TikTok about “failed relationships.”
In an attempt to express his opinion on the story, Carpenter, 21, released “Skin” last week, which has no self-awareness, especially considering that it is the most in age in this situation. On “Skin”, she sings, “Maybe then we could pretend there is no gravity in the words we write / Maybe you didn’t mean that, maybe” blonde “was the only rhyme” and then later, “You can try to get under mine, under mine, under my skin / While he is mine. Bassett later praised the song on Instagram, writing: “It’s been stuck in my head since I heard it !!!”
Oh, Bassett has a song, too. It’s called “Lie Lie Lie” and, even though he wrote on Instagram Story that it’s about a “friend”, fans think it’s about Rodrigo. In it, he sings, “So you tell them it’s my fault / You’re the victim this time,” and in his accompanying music video Bassett hangs from a car window, reflecting what Rodrigo is doing in her music video.
Both Rodrigo and Carpenter cited Lorde and Swift as inspirations for composition – “Taylor Swift is my composer idol and I wouldn’t be half the woman and composer I am today without her,” Rodrigo told NME. Carpenter said in an interview, “I think Lorde is an incredible singer and someone I always watch and also musically does something like that in her own band.” As for Bassett, he says John Mayer is his inspiration.
Somehow, by the grace of God or good publicists, or possibly both, all three artists released their own song about the love triangle in a matter of weeks. Not only that, but Rodrigo and Bassett seem to put their hatred aside as they promote HSMTM: Holiday Special in December, even praising each other’s prolific compositional skills.
“Somehow, by the grace of God or good publicists, or possibly both, all three artists released their own song about the love triangle in a few weeks.”
Rodrigo, Bassett and Carpenter are far from the first young lovers to stage their real-life drama. In 2008, an 18-year-old Swift continued The Ellen show to tell her host and millions of observers that little boy Joe Jonas broke up with her in a 25-second phone call and wrote a song about it – “Forever and Always”, which won the Grammy album Fearless. There were other songs, such as “Better Than Revenge”, in which Swift sang about another girl who “steals” her boyfriend. “She’s not a saint and she’s not what you think she is, she’s an actress / She’s better known for the things she does on the mattress,” Swift sang. The Jonas brothers set fire to “Much Better”, which nodded to Swift and all the “tears on the guitar” and how “much better” the new girl was. The “much better” girl rumored was the actress Camilla Belle, who does not write plays, so maybe we will never know her part of the story. (However, when Swift gets bad press, Belle usually sends a tweet.)
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 play the blues or throw a similar Spears in a music video. Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan and Aaron Carter commented to each other in the press SNL about their love triangle, but in terms of songs, there were Duff’s “Haters,” where he sang, “You say your friend is sweet and good / But you have mine eyes.”
Rodrigo may not have caught the guy in the end, but she did made get Swift’s approval. “I say this is my baby and I’m very proud,” Swift said He commented on Rodrigo’s Instagram photo.