What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and Olivia Rodrigo has been making headlines
all week for her chart topping breakup song “Driver’s License,” and while so many
people are invested in this love triangle, there’s a lot more to know about Olivia!
Let’s get into it.
Olivia Rodrigo’s song “Driver’s License” went number one across almost all streaming
platforms this week and with good reason!
The song is incredible.
She’s also gained almost a million new followers on Instagram and caught the attention of other
major artists.
But many people have been focused on the lyrics in Olivia’s song and the rumored love triangle
between her, her co-star Joshua Bassett, and Sabrina Carpenter.
And don’t worry, if you’re interested in that saga, we’ve got you covered with
another Clevver video that I’ll link above for you.
But right now, we’re here to talk about Olivia, leaving all the drama behind.
Olivia stars in the Disney + show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, but what
some might not know, is that she actually writes music for the show.
It’s no surprise after listening to “driver’s license” and hearing her songwriting abilities,
but it’s still extremely impressive, especially for a 17 year old.
She wrote the song “All I Want,” which her character Nini sings on season 1 of the
show.
Olivia also co-wrote "Just For A Moment" with Joshua Bassett for the soundtrack.
“All I Want” went viral on TikTok with Olivia even making her own TikTok to the song.
And while “Driver’s License” may be her first chart topper, “All I Want” actually
made it to number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was later certified gold.
Back in November, Olivia shared the exciting news writing “lil song I wrote in my living
room is gold! and it’s on a plaque! and my moms shadow is on the plaque too! so cool!”
And while most fans know Olivia from her role on the Disney + High School Musical show,
she’s actually been a part of the Disney family since 2016.
From 2016 to 2019, she played Paige on the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark alongside
Madison Hu and Jake Paul.
“I’m Paige and we have a favor to ask.
See the subs… nope.
Hey guys I’m Frankie, nope sorry.
Ahhh!”
Madison and Olivia are still besties, even after the show ended.
And Olivia also showed off her singing voice on Bizaardvark too.
She and Madison sang the theme song together!
And while everyone has been obsessing over Olivia’s potential past relationship with
Joshua Bassett, she actually also dated one of her Bizaardvark castmates.
According to Us Weekly, she was linked to her co-star Ethan Wacker from July 2018 to
August 2019.
But before you start wondering if “Driver’s License” could possibly be about Ethan and
not Joshua, Ethan actually replied to a fan about this on TikTok writing “Nope, I treated
her well.”
Well that settles that!
Last but not least, Olivia is a diehard Taylor Swift fan.
Over the years, she hasn’t been afraid to flaunt her love for Taylor on social media.
And last April, she even performed a cover of Taylor’s song Cruel Summer.
Naturally, Olivia freaked out when Taylor reposted her cover on her Instagram Story.
At the time, Olivia said she was “screaming” and “crying like a baby” and just when
you think it couldn’t get any better than that, it does.
Earlier this week, Olivia posted about how excited she was to be behind Taylor on the
iTunes charts.
And none other than Taylor Swift herself commented on Oliva’s post writing “I say that’s
my baby and I’m really proud.”
As a Swiftie and fellow musician, it doesn’t get any better than the queen of beautiful
breakup songs recognizing your work.
And who knows, maybe these two will work together some day, that would be incredible.
According to PopBuzz, Olivia took a note out of Taylor’s book and negotiated her record
label contract so that she would own all of her own masters from the beginning of her
career.
We love to see it.
And Olivia is only just getting started, according to the outlet she’s planning on releasing
an entire EP this year!
We’ll keep you guys posted if we hear any new music news.
But for now, if you want more on Olivia’s reaction to Taylor Swift gushing over her
song, click right over her for another Clevver News video.
Also, let us know down in the comments if you think we’ll be getting even more music
from Olivia soon, I sure hope we do!
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on Instagram @Sussan_Mourad, bye guys!