What’s up guys, it’s Sussan Mourad with Clevver News, and Sabrina Carpenter just released
her new song “Skin” where fans are convinced she addressed her side of the “drivers license”
drama, and they actually might be onto something… let’s break it all down!
We all knew this day was bound to come as Sabrina Carpenter released her brand new song
“Skin” Thursday night, but it didn’t even take a major lyrical deep dive to realize
that the song is a direct response to the recent drama “drivers license” has caused.
So in case you haven’t been following along, earlier this month, Olivia Rodrigo released
her debut single “drivers license”, which has broken records, earned praise from other
major artists and even peaked at the top of literally every musical chart.
But it was the detailed lyrics of the breakup ballad that fans believed to be inspired by
Olivia’s split with her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series costar Joshua Bassett
with lyrics reading, “And you're probably with that blonde girl/ Who always made me
doubt/ She's so much older than me/ She's everything I'm insecure about.”
Many immediately pointed fingers at Sabrina Carpenter, who had notably been spending time
with Joshua over the past few months, as Olivia changed the original version of the song from
“brunette girl” to “blonde girl.”
Joshua released his song, “Lie Lie Lie” last week, which he stated is about a friend,
but Sabrina had yet to share her side of this young adult love triangle… until now.
Not only does the song reference some of the exact lyrics in “drivers license”, but
Sabrina specifically sings about “the other girl” in this alleged love triangle while
the boy they’re both pining over is on top of her skin… trust me, it gets juicer.
One of the more telling lyrics comes in the very first verse when Sabrina suggests QUOTE,
“maybe we could’ve been friends if I met you in another life,” and even addresses
the ‘blonde’ reference in Olivia’s video… yeah, she definitely went there.
“Maybe you didn’t mean it, maybe blonde was the only rhyme.”
Later in the song, Sabrina suggests that while she’s “not asking you to let it go,”
she reiterates that try as they might, QUOTE, “You can try to get under my, under my,
under my skin while he's on mine,” and, “I wish you knew that even you can't get
under my skin if I don't let you in.”
Oooft!
Toward the end of the song, Sabrina circles back on the fact that maybe one day, this
could be something they laugh about as she sings, “I just hope that one day, we both
can laugh about it when it’s not in our face; won’t have to dance around it.”
But fans were then quick to cross reference this next lyric when Sabrina sings, “Don’t
DRIVE yourself insane, it won’t always be this way.”
Naturally, Sabrina’s newest single has caused the Internet to interpret it from many different
viewpoints, with some fans unable to see the harm in Sabrina finally addressing her side.
Others had a completely different perspective, claiming that Sabrina intentionally tried
to bully Olivia with this song, like this user who tweeted, “Liv just said ‘blonde
girl’.
Sabrina decided to literally bully her.
Her entire song was ‘he’s mine’.”
Another fan wrote, “Here’s the thing, Olivia didn’t diss Sabrina, she was praising
her and instead focusing the blame on Joshua.
Sabrina rly came for Olivia,” noting that, “Olivia’s only 17!”
This fan poses another interesting side, claiming that rather than “Skin” being about one
singular person, it is more about the Internet as a collective group attempting to bring
Sabrina into the drama.
They tweeted QUOTE, “Let’s make this clear: Sabrina Carpenter & Olivia are not ‘fighting’
over Joshua.
‘Skin’ is directed towards the hate that the internet immediately threw at her not
knowing anything about her.
Even the lyric ‘I just hope that one day, we both can laugh about it’ shows it.”
But above all else, it seems fans are really hoping for these two powerful femme forces
to collide so that one day, they actually CAN laugh about it.
This fan tweeted, “Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo, I’m hoping to see a collab
next month thank you very much,” while another user said, “I believe in future Sabrina
Carpenter x Olivia Rodrigo friendship supremacy.”
So here’s to one day hoping Olivia and Sabrina can drive through the suburbs together laughing
at the time they once had the entire Twittersphere up in arms over a guy and some good ol’
internet-crafted drama!
To see what Olivia had to say when addressing the “drivers license” love triangle, click
right over here to watch another Clevver video.
Then be sure to let me know all your thoughts on Sabrina’s new song “Skin” down here
in the comments, and if you think the song really is a direct response to Olivia’s.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on Instagram @Sussan_Mourad, bye guys!