Olivia Rodrigo may be the latest singer to unexpectedly skyrocket into superstardom seemingly overnight, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from her demeanor. In a recent GQ profile, Rodrigo acknowledged the disorientation of her massive success in 2021, but also seemed to speak with the knowing, levelheaded voice of someone well beyond her more recent household-name celebrity status.
“Something that I learned very early on is the importance of separating person versus persona,” she explained in the interview. “When people who don't know me are criticizing me, they're criticizing my persona, not my person. But that's really difficult, though, too, because my persona is being as genuine and honest as I possibly can, so it's this weird dichotomy.”
