Do you remember when “Driver’s License” came out, and it felt like the entire internet was speculating about who Olivia Rodrigo wrote the song about? There were countless theories about the singer and her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star Joshua Bassett being in a hypothetical love triangle with Sabrina Carpenter. It was wild, and fans were grasping for every rumor they could get. Now, with the singer releasing her latest single “Vampire” that kind of theorizing has picked up again, but Rodrigo opened up about why she can “understand it.”
As Rodrigo gets ready to release her second album GUTS, she reflected on her autobiographical music, and how people like to speculate about who the songs are about. With the release of her smash-hit “Vampire,” which includes lyrics about someone being a “bloodsucker, fame-fucker,” people are once again making assumptions about her relationships. While pondering why fans do this the singer told Vogue:
