according to new reports olivia rodrigo has supposedly given up millions of dollars to artists
like taylor swift and haley williams after being accused of copying their songs on her sour album
let's get into everything we know it is no secret that olivia rodrigo has had an incredible year
she's broken music industry records and performed on some of the biggest stages
during her first year as a solo artist but with that level of fame comes some controversy and
as olivia released her debut album sour fans noticed similarities to some other artists songs
olivia hasn't been shy about saying that she's been inspired by artists like taylor swift
lorde billy eilish paramore and more but things went as far as olivia giving retroactive credit
to some of these artists for their music inspiring hers so heavily for example fans noted the
similarities between olivia's song good for you and parramore's 2007 hit single misery business
and just last week it was then announced that paramours haley williams and joshua farrow had
been retroactively given songwriting credits because of the similarities reports at the time
revealed that while haley and joshua were not originally credited olivia's team had been in
touch with them about the song but this wasn't the first time that olivia had retroactively offered
writing credits to artists after fans pointed out similarities back in july it was reported
that olivia added taylor swift jack antonoff and saint vincent to the credits for deja vu
this was supposedly because of the similarities between deja vu and taylor's 2019 song cruel
summer according to buzzfeed the reasoning behind the credit is because of something called
interpolation the outlet reports that the interpolation of a song basically means
that parts of that record's composition have been re-recorded and turned into something new
this differs from a sample which is just lifting a snippet from an original song olivia had actually
originally credited taylor swift for this on her song one step forward three steps back
for recreating the piano melody from taylor's song new year's day but this was retroactively done for
deja vu and now a new billboard report is claiming that because olivia had offered songwriting
credits retroactively on some of her most popular songs she has given up a lot of money in royalties
according to the report haley williams and joshua farrow will now receive a combined royalty share
of 50 for good for you which fans know hit number one on the billboard hot 100. olivia
and her songwriter collaborator daniel nigro would then be splitting the remaining 50 same goes for
deja vu which she would be splitting the same way with taylor and her team and this all adds up to a
large sum of money like millions of dollars kind of money billboard reports that haley and joshua
could be receiving around 1.2 million dollars from the success of good for you and taylor and
her writing team could also be earning around 740 000 for their credits on two of her songs all of
this has been met with mixed reactions from fans some are coming to olivia's defense saying how
much this sucks makes no sense and how it feels like an 18 year old girl is being robbed when she
just got here this fan was particularly heated about the subject writing olivia being inspired
by them while simultaneously writing songs with completely different themes and lyrics should not
warrant them taking all this money from olivia's work i'm honestly appalled but others gave olivia
credit for doing the right thing and said that credits and money were well deserved this person
also added that this seems like it was the best way for olivia to not stir the pot writing well
at least they are doing it fair and just it's better than causing too much drama olivia and
her team haven't commented on any of this yet but according to celebrity net worth olivia is still
worth millions of dollars and most of this is from this past year alone and we know that she truly
does love these other artists and isn't afraid to admit she's gotten inspiration from them and
give credit where she feels credit is due we can't wait to see what olivia does next and if you want
to hear what adam levine had to say about this songwriting situation click right over here for
another clever news video and let me know in the comments do you think that olivia did the right
thing by giving these artists credit retroactively for now guys i'm your host carly henderson you can
find me on social media at carly henderson underscore and i hope you have a good day