Olivia Rodrigo isn’t mincing phrases about a “bloodsucker, famef—ker” on her new track, “Vampire” — however can Joshua Bassett in spite of everything rest simple?
More than two years after going viral along with her hit “Drivers License,” which spawned unending on-line discourse about a potential love triangle between Rodrigo, Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter, the 20-year-old “Brutal” songstress dropped the first single from her sophomore album on Friday, June 30, and lovers believe she has new inspiration.
Several signs point to Rodrigo penning “Vampire” about DJ Zack Bia. “I must’ve recognized it was once unusual / You simplest pop out at night time / I used to assume I was smart / But you made me glance so naive,” she sings in the chorus. “The method you sold me for portions / As you sunk your teeth into me, oh / Bloodsucker, famef—ker / Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire.”
While she was once first noticed with Bia in April 2022, several experiences recommend that they started striking out across the time of the Super Bowl in February 2022. Us Weekly confirmed in August 2022 that the pair had known as it quits, which places their romance at roughly six months.
“I see the events and the diamonds now and again after I close my eyes / Six months of torture you offered as some forbidden paradise,” the lyrics to “Vampire” read. “I liked you in reality / You gotta giggle at the stupidity.”
Shortly ahead of Rodrigo started dating Bia, he was linked to Madelyn Cline. (He confirmed at the “BFFs” podcast in January 2022 that he had been “hanging out” with the Outer Banks big name, however they weren’t “officially dating.”) In “Vampire,” Rodrigo sings about an age difference — Bia is seven years older than her — and notes every other lady who is nearer to his age. (Bia became 27 earlier this month and Cline is 25.)
“Oh, what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, f—ked up little thrill / Can’t determine simply the way you do it and God knows I never will / Went for me and no longer her / ‘Cause girls your age know higher,” she says.
Rodrigo hasn’t publicly addressed who she penned “Vampire” about, however she mentioned in an Apple Music interview that she wrote the track together with her manufacturer Dan Nigro in December 2022.
“I wrote the song at the piano, super sit back, in December of remaining 12 months. And my producer Dan and I ended it in January and completed writing it,” she explained. “And I’ve simply all the time been really obsessed with songs that are very dynamic. My favorite songs are high and low, and reel you in and spit you again out. And so we would have liked to do a song where it simply crescendoed all of the time and it reflects the pent-up anger that you've for a scenario.”
While some enthusiasts have already flooded Bia’s social media pages with color — writing comments like, “Do you simplest pop out at night most likely” and “What tf do you might have in common with any individual under 20?” — different listeners are suggesting Rodrigo might be singing about ex Adam Faze.
The Disney alum dated the producer for less than one year — news in their break up broke in February 2022, roughly seven months after they were seen together for the first time in June 2021. (There are Twitter customers suggesting June 30 could be the two-year anniversary of when their relationship began.) Like Bia, Faze, now 26, is older than Rodrigo. At the time of their romance, Rodrigo used to be 18.
It’s additionally price noting that Rodrigo is a self-proclaimed Twihard — and “Vampire” could draw some inspiration from the Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart movies relatively than her real-life romances.
As the net chatter continues, Rodrigo prepares to drop her second album, Guts, on September 8. “I had [the title picked out] if truth be told when I was making Sour. I’m like, ‘I want the following one to be Guts.’ I had it in my head. I’m like, ‘Four letters, all caps, identical to Sour.’ I love it. I simply suppose it’s a captivating phrase. People use it in such a lot of attention-grabbing contexts, like spill your guts. Hate your guts, I believe is a in reality attention-grabbing term,” she told Zane Lowe. “[It] method bravery, but it surely also means intuition, like concentrate to your gut. I just think it’s all of these things that coincidentally had been issues that I’ve in reality been thinking about in this chapter.”
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She also famous that the album chronicles her “nineteenth 12 months” — a excellent sign for Bassett, who persisted on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series after Rodrigo’s go out amid her musical luck.
“A year that, for me, was full of loads of confusion, mistakes, awkwardness and excellent old-fashioned teenager angst,” she informed fanatics earlier this month. “I can't specific how excited I'm to embark in this new chapter of my life with you guys.”
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