Turning again time. Olivia Rodrigo mirrored on her previous relationship and alluded to the Joshua Bassett drama in her SOUR movie Driving Residence 2 U.
Launched practically one yr after her debut album dropped in Might 2021, the Disney+ documentary — which hit the streaming service on Friday, March 25 — adopted the Excessive College Musical: The Musical: The Sequence star on a street journey from Salt Lake Metropolis to Los Angeles. Rodrigo, 19, defined to viewers that this was the identical route she took whereas writing and recording SOUR.
Alongside the way in which, the songstress made varied stops to play new preparations of her songs “in these locations that meant a lot to me.” The 77-minute-long movie took followers by means of the method of constructing SOUR from the primary track she wrote for the report — “Happier” — to the final — “Hope Ur OK.”
In fact, she additionally mirrored on the worldwide success of her debut single “Drivers License” and the drama that adopted. Professionally, Rodrigo defined that “one week” after the track was launched, she made the choice to report the complete album. Personally, she might have by no means imagined what would come as followers decoded the lyrics.
Eagle-eyed HSMTMTS followers had theorized that the track was about her cut up from costar Bassett, 21. Though the Disney+ stars by no means publicly confirmed their relationship, viewers had been satisfied that they had been collectively whereas starring within the present’s first season.
Particularly, listeners homed in on one line of lyrics that learn: “And also you’re most likely with that blonde lady / Who at all times made me doubt.”
On the time, Bassett had been noticed with Sabrina Carpenter — who occurs to be blonde — so followers had been satisfied Rodrigo was singing about her obvious ex and his rumored flame.
“I completely perceive individuals’s curiosity with the specifics of who the track’s about and what it’s about, however to me, that’s actually the least essential a part of the track,” Rodrigo instructed Billboard after the track got here out. “It’s resonating with individuals due to how emotional it’s, and I believe all the things else isn’t essential.”
As Rodrigo, Bassett and Carpenter, 22, (her track “Pores and skin” was rumored to be a direct response) continued to launch new music, the drama didn’t die down. In actual fact, months after SOUR got here out, she spoke additional after the aftermath of “Drivers License.”
“I put it out not understanding that it could get that response, so it was actually unusual [when] it did. I simply keep in mind [everyone being] so bizarre and speculative about stuff that they had no concept about,” Rodrigo instructed Selection in August 2021. “I don’t actually subscribe to hating different ladies due to boys. I believe that’s so silly, and I actually resent that narrative that was being tossed round.”
Bassett, for his half, waited practically a yr to inform his reality. He appeared to deal with your entire scenario, noting “it’s not as latest because it appears,” in a December 2021 interview with GQ amid the discharge of his songs “Disaster,” “Secret” and “Set Me Free.” In the identical journal article, he claimed, “[Rodrigo] hasn’t spoken to me since ‘Drivers License’ got here out.”
In Driving Residence 2 U, Rodrigo might not have addressed anybody by identify, however she did converse at size concerning the previous relationship that impressed SOUR and talked concerning the “Drivers License” drama head on.
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