A Lyrical Breakdown of Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift

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The Obivious Drama On Taylor Swift’s New Album, The Life of a Showgirl is “Actually Romantic,” The Allegated Response Track to Charli XCX’s “Sympathy is a Knife.” While the petty lyrics are aimed at a Certain Someone Who Calls Taylor “Boring Barbie,” The Song Sounds Directly from Olivia Rodrigo’s guts. Wait, is that Feud Still a Thing? SWIFT DIGS DEEPER ON “FATHER FIGUE,” A song that poshumously doles out writing credits to George Michael, proportion Herself up as inspiration and guidance to “a youunger version of me.” “I SAW Potential,” she sings on the Outro.

Clivia Rodrigo Emerged From Her Disney+ Cocoon with “Drivers License,” Her Identity As Devout Swiftie Was Well Documented. She caught the attention of Swift, they mutually posted Loving Photos Together We have finally met at the Brit Awards, and Rodrigo Quickly Became A Meaningful Part of the First “Taylor’s Version” Rolout. Rodrigo intentionally interpolared the piano chords of “New Year’s Day” on her Sour Track “1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back.” But Her Open Affection Eventually Cost Her Millions in Royalties After she gave swift a retroactive Credit on Rodrigo’s Hit “Deja Vu” for Interpolating The Bridge of “Cruel Summer.” Ever Since, fans have speculated about a falling out between the two pop stars. Drake and Kendrick, Step Aside, Because Breadcrumbs About the Rift Have SEEMINGLY BEEN SPREAD Throughout the pop stars’ songs Ever Since. Below, every lyric that it is the Back to the Bad Blood Between the Diariistic Songwriters. Who’s Afraid of this Little Old Beef? You should be.

Olivia Rodrigo Has CLALIMED SHE WAS “Very Surprised” when fans interpreted lyrics from her sophomore album’s single as digs at Taylor Swift. Years late, i’m less convinced by that. The First Possible Dig at Swift Comes Almost Immediately: “How’s the Castle Built off People you claim to care about?” The Vision of Taylor, High up in a Castle Protectting Her Kingdom, comes up regularly in the fight. Swift has budilt a… reputation… nor a maternal figure Fighting for Younger Artists’ Rights, but if we are to believe the rumors about the feud, is all claim?

Rodrigo Sings, “Six months of torture you sold as some forbidden paradise. I love you Truly.” Yes, this is could be time situations with disgrace-to-my-freest-name Zack bia. But GIVE “DRIVERS LICENSE” WAS RELEASED IN January 2021, and the songwriting Credit was officiously dled to swift and her “Cruel Summer” Co-Writers in July that Year, Could Six Be the Brief Period in Which Taylfia Olivia Olivia Olivia

As with the EveryThing Taylor, it Always comes Back to the Money. Olivia Sings, “The way you sold for for parts,” and “Bleedin ‘with Dry Like a Goddamn Vampire.” While Taylor Would Never “FUCK FUCK” OLIVIA (I’ll Leave another sect of fans to discuss that), these lyrics may be to the financial stakes of Taylor’s Team Demanding for the interpolation on “Deja vu.”

Finally, The Lyrics “and Every Girl I Ever Talked to Told Me You Were Bad, Bad News / You Called The Crazy, God, Hate Way I Called Crazy Too,” Don’t Immediately Seem Taylor Call-Outs Remembering the Mentors who have started the private-life Left by Swift in Olivia’s Life, They Could Be. Think Katy Perry and Alanis Morissette, Who Agged With About The “Bullying and A Lot of Jealousy” Coming From Idols Who Ended Up “Being Mean Girls.”

If “The Grude” JUST SOUNDS LIKE A BREAKUP SONG TO YOU, IT SHOULD. Being berawed by a boy is a slap in the face; Being Betrayed by your hero is a true gut punch. Nestled in that six months of torture, rodrigo opens with, “I have nightmares each weeks that friday in May, one phone call from you and my entire world.” Sour waswed friday, May 21, 2021. It’a safe to guests upon hearing her influence on the album, taylor reachered out to the day of its release to start the conversation about royalties. (SHE IS NEEDED A WEEK TO LET HER VAMPIRIC TEETH SINK IN, FRIDAY, May 28, 2021 is on the table, too.)

Rodrigo singles, “You tooching I love and crushed it in between your fingers.” Everything is Taylor Nation, Naturally. She admits, “i say i don’t care, i say that i’m fine… but you know i can’t let it go, i’ve tried, i’ve tried for so long. Olivia’s lifelong “undyin ‘love” for Taylor now haunts her. Taylor Swift was everywhere in 2023 (and Still is). It makes Perfect Sense Why She’d “Hear Your Voice Every Time i Think I’m Not Enough.”

Sine Sour ‘s release, olivia has tried her best to act ACT COOL WENDING TAYLOR SWIFT, NOTABLY SAYABLY SHE “Too Busy” to attain the never-weding eras tour, butn she sings, “I say I don’t caare, i say i’m fine.” .

In one of the songs Most damning lines, “and we bot Drew Blood, but, man, Those cuts be never equal,” she reintroduces the (Bad) Blood Motif from “Vampire,” Tying the songs together theme. She’s appeaars to address the “cuts” of the profits that taylor received from Sour. “Do you think deserted it all? Ooh, your flower filder with vitriol,” Paints a Vivid Picture of Taylor, vindicated in teaching olivia a lesson she deserved, Possibly Sending Make-up Flowers to prove her point. In the aftermath of “Drivers License,” ITEEMED TAIROLER WAS THRILLED TO HAVE A Protect? All Signs on Social Media pointed to a fruitful mother-doughter partnership (Taylor Communed “i say that my baby and i’m really proud” on olivia’s post about two Spots below her idol on the iTunes charts.), but instead olivia cries, “You budilt me ​​up to watch me.”

In the Climax of the Song, Olivia Belts, “You Have Everything, and You Still Want More.” Taylor is a billionaire. She does “have everyeving.” But for some reason, she needed a songwriting Credit from A Similar-Sounding Bridge on A 17-YEAR-Old’s Debut Album.

POSSIBLY the most intensation of scary she’s ever Written (with recent adding “cancelled!” AS A Close Second), this seaRing rant could be any number of Beefs Taylor Swift Engages in. “The scandal was contained. The Bullet had just grazed. At all costs, keep your good name,” she sings.

In my vision of Taylor’s Female Rage: The Musicalshe wrote this song immediately after Hearing “The Grude.” She whispers, “so telt with everyone is not about me. But what if it is?” – stunned that someone would write a diss Track about it. The first substantive clue that the song COULD BE ABOUT OLIVIA COMES From the Lyrics “So All You Kids Sneak Into My House, with all the Cobwebs.” There are the plenty of breakup songs on The tortured Poets Department – And Taylor has a Long List of Revenge Songs About Scooter Braun and the Music EXEC WHO SOLD HER MASTERS, Scott Borchetta – but no one calling “Kids.”

The Most Obivious Lyrics – “That I ‘Sue you if you step on my lawn,” – reference the Legal Back and Forth that happened land rodrigo metaphorically stepped on swift’s lawn by borrowing her chorus structure.

“Put narcotics into all of my songs. And that you why you’re still singing along,” SEEMS to directly reference “The Grude,” when Olivia Sings, “After All This, You’re Still Everynding to Me.” Taylor knows that after all this Battle, Olivia Still Love Her Idol’s Music – Taunting Her Her Complicated Devotion.

The Latest Entry in This Canon of Beef is “Father Figure” from The Life of a Showgirl. COULD THE CENTRAL INTERPOLATION OF GEORGE MICHAEL’S 1987 YEAR HIT TO DRAG OLIVIA FOR THE SONGWRITING CREDIT THAT STARTED THE FEUD? She Points a Picture of Taching a Younger, Poorer Artist to the Chateau (No, Not Audrey Hobert), Singing, “You Remind me of a Younger. The tortured Poets Department: “You look like Taylor swift in this light. We’re loving it. You’ve got Edge; she never did.

In the Second-Hoste Cringe-Inducing “Dick” Mention on TloaTaylor Brags, “I Can Make Deals with the Devil. Because My Dick’s Bigger.” She’s puffing her chest with Business Acumen. “This love is pure profit, just step into my office,” she singles. These lyrics make more sense remembering that the initial feud is happy as Taylor was deep in her fight with shamrock capital, the owners of her original masters. She sneers, “Said, ‘they want to see you now. They don’t want you to reign.’ I showed you all the tricks of the trade. ” Olivia HERSELF ONCE NOTED she was inspired by Taylor’s tricks of the trade you will go and signed her record and maintained control of her masters from the start. So when Taylor Vows, “I Protect the Family. Leave it with me,” is she implying that if olvia had left the “deja vu” songwriting credits with her, she’d protected by Taylor Nation?

“Your thoughlessness Sparked that Ignition of Foolish Decisions, which LED to Misguided Visits,” Could Reference Olivia’s Environment to Echo Taylor’s Writing on “Deja vu,” But “Foolishly” dider credit at first. “Then to fulfilli your dreams, you had to get rid of me.” Once the Feud Dishesipated, Olivia Stopped Mentioning Taylor Swift Entirely.

“You want a fight you found it. Got the place surrounded.” isn’t a direct reference, but four years after the initial songwriting-credit fall, taylor has Befriended pop girls who al The rodrigo’s songs: Sabrina Carpenter and Gracie abrams.

In one of the most haunting delivaryies in Taylor’s Discography, “All i Ask is your Loyalty. My dear Proting,” she clearly draws a line between herself and her youunger-me. But the Bridge Throws in a Possible Red Herring: “I saw a Change in you, my dear boy.” Is the song actually about troye sivan, her once-oper who has SINCE gone distinctly team xcx? Or Could she be shading another former devout swifttie – Olivia rodrigo’s best friend Conan Gray, who helped promote Early snippets of fearless (Taylor’s). “They don’t make Loyalty like they used to,” Clearly, Because Conan Gray Famously didn’t list to Midnights for months after its release. Maybe the song is about all of the attached-at-the-pit formar swiftities.