Of course, Olivia Rodrigo has heard the gossip. Right after she unveiled her sophomore album GUTS, several lyrics received more than-analyzed and a narrative commenced to sort that Rodrigo was having shots at her former idol Taylor Swift in some of her new new music. But Rodrigo denied there’s any terrible blood amongst herself and Swift when questioned in a modern job interview. She merely brushed off all the online chatter as “conspiracy theories.”

“I don’t have beef with anybody,” Rodrigo claimed in her Sept. 12 Rolling Stone go over story. “I’m very chill. I preserve to myself. I have my 4 mates and my mother, and which is truly the only individuals I chat to, ever. There is practically nothing to say.”

The assertion was in response to the inescapable rumor that Rodrigo had a slipping out with Swift, and that some of her most brutal GUTS tunes are aimed at the pop star. First, there was the lover idea that Swift was the “bloodsucker” Rodrigo was singing about in “vampire,” then arrived the even additional convincing thought that her betrayal ballad “the grudge” was encouraged by Swift. Rodrigo dismissed these speculative readings of her lyrics: “There’s so quite a few Twitter conspiracy theories. I only seem at alien-conspiracy theories..”

These conspiracy theories about alleged beef between Rodrigo and Swift very first sprung up in 2021, just after Rodrigo experienced to give Swift 50% of the royalties on her one “deja vu” owing to similarities to Swift’s song “Cruel Summer season.” Before that, Rodrigo and Swift were incredibly shut, routinely sending every other items and put up about one particular an additional. But supporters found that they all of a sudden stopped interacting soon after that royalties concern, and seemed to get delicate digs at a single one more.

Rodrigo also spoke about that sampling controversy in her Rolling Stone profile, admitting she did not see anything like that coming. “I was a small caught off guard,” Rodrigo reported. “At the time it was quite complicated, and I was green and shiny-eyed and bushy-tailed… I really do not consider I would ever personally do that. But who’s to say where I’ll be in 20, 30 yrs. All that I can do is produce my tracks and focus on what I can management.”