Olivia Rodrigo’s ferocious single “vampire” created enough sound to wake the dead, but the rumor mill bordering the track has been even louder than the belting refrain. Initially, lovers assumed the scathing lyrics were being directed at a person of Rodrigo’s ex-boyfriends, but upon deeper dissection, an even more shocking principle started to materialize. The speculation is that Rodrigo was influenced by her alleged feud with Taylor Swift when penning the tune about a vampiric entity who has been bleeding her dry. Well, Rodrigo has listened to the rumors, and at last dealt with them in a new job interview.

The Swift principle was fashioned a few times immediately after “vampire” was produced at the conclusion of June, as admirers acquainted with the problem posted their convictions that the track have to be about Swift. While the subject of the song alone is an ex-boyfriend, the theorists feel Rodrigo wrote it that way to throw folks off the track’s accurate concentrate on. The perception is that Rodrigo is employing the tune to express her stress about royalties drama with Swift, which resulted in Rodrigo obtaining to give her childhood idol 50% of the credits and royalties for her track “Deja Vu” owing to its similarity to Swift’s “Cruel Summertime.”

When Rodrigo was questioned about his theory during a Sept. 2 interview with The Guardian, she did not seriously want to get into it. “How do I solution this?” Rodrigo claimed. “I indicate, I under no circumstances want to say who any of my songs are about. I’ve hardly ever performed that right before in my career and likely will not. I feel it is improved to not pigeonhole a song to becoming about this just one point. I was pretty amazed when people today considered that.”

The “vampire” principle is aspect of a much larger fan speculation that Rodrigo and Swift may possibly have experienced a slipping out not too long ago. Prior to the Bitter royalties drama, Rodrigo and Swift had been exceptionally near. Rodrigo normally gushed around Swift and her songs as a superfan, and Swift reciprocated by getting images with Rodrigo and supporting her releases. On the other hand, the two have notably stopped interacting at any time because the royalties concern. When Swift declared Sabrina Carpenter as the opener for the Latin American date of her Eras Tour, Rodrigo’s lovers took it as a slight. Carpenter is widely believed to be the rival Rodrigo sang about in her debut solitary “drivers license.”

As Rodrigo has said, she’s hardly ever heading to expose who her music are actually about, so lovers are just remaining with their theories on this a single.