Olivia Rodrigo responds to &x27;internet detective&x27; sleuths still speculating about her feud with Taylor Swift Wesley StenzelFri, May 29, 2026 at 9:39 PM UTC 0 Olivia Rodrigo; Taylor SwiftCredit: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage; Phillip Faraone/GettyKey points Olivia Rodrigo addressed speculation about possible tension between her and Taylor Swift again. "I think if I dove into every internet detective sleuth that got things right or wrong about my life or any of my relationships, I think I&x27;d just go crazy," the singer said.
Olivia Rodrigo responds to 'internet detective' sleuths still speculating about her feud with Taylor Swift
Wesley StenzelFri, May 29, 2026 at 9:39 PM UTC
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Olivia Rodrigo addressed speculation about possible tension between her and Taylor Swift again.
"I think if I dove into every internet detective sleuth that got things right or wrong about my life or any of my relationships, I think I'd just go crazy," the singer said.
Rodrigo also said it was hard for her personally after she added Swift and others as credited songwriters on some of her songs.
Olivia Rodrigo has addressed — yet again — speculation about rumored tension between her and Taylor Swift.
The "Vampire" singer responded to multiple questions about their relationship in a new interview published Friday.
During her appearance on The New York Times' Popcast to promote her upcoming third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, she was asked how she feels facing public "scrutiny," like after a March incident in which she was photographed leaving Paul McCartney's Los Angeles concert at the same time as Swift.
"I don't know. I don't really read too far into it," Rodrigo responded. "I think it comes with the territory and it's par for the course. I think if I dove into every internet detective sleuth that got things right or wrong about my life or any of my relationships, I think I'd just go crazy. There's just not enough time in the day."
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Rodrigo confirmed a hypothesis from the show's cohost, Joe Coscarelli, suggesting that she'd built a tolerance for the rampant speculation about her personal life after her debut single, "Drivers License," sent the internet into a frenzy.
"I think it made me feel detached from it," she said. "I had to detach from it in order to literally be okay. It's just such a crazy experience for everyone involved. I think I just had to learn to detach."
She continued, "I think that that's something that I hopefully am good at these days — still trying to detach from people who don't know every little detail of my life. I think you just have to, otherwise you just go crazy."
Elsewhere in the podcast, Rodrigo discussed how she felt about claims that there might be a "frost" between her and Swift. "I don't know," she said. "I think I tried to not let it get to me or upset me. I think I just try to keep it truckin'. I think there's no use. It was so long ago. I think there's no use in, like, harping on it."
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She added, "I just try to make songs that I love and try to be kind and good to other people and supportive of other people. And I've always tried to be like that. And at the end of the day, I think that's all you can do."
Rodrigo has repeatedly cited Swift as one of her primary influences, and the "Love Story" singer publicly supported her in the lead-up to her first album, Sour. Rodrigo interpolated elements from Swift's 2017 song "New Year's Day" on the album's fourth song, "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back," and credited Swift and the song's co-writer, Jack Antonoff, as composers.
Olivia Rodrigo in New York City on May 21, 2026
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Rodrigo later credited Swift and Antonoff as songwriters on the album's second single, "Deja Vu," due to its similarities to Swift's 2019 song "Cruel Summer." She also added Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, as a composer because of her contributions to "Cruel Summer." Rodrigo also later credited Hayley Williams and Josh Farro as songwriters on her song "Good 4 U" due to its similarities to Paramore's song "Misery Business."
Rodrigo has said she was "a little caught off guard" by the crediting snafu. "At the time it was very confusing, and I was green and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," she told Rolling Stone in 2023. "It's not something that I was super involved in… It was more team-on-team. So, I wouldn't be the best person to ask."
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Rodrigo acknowledged the situation again in her Popcast interview after Coscarelli suggested that "borrowing a little too much" musically has "come back to bite" her.
"It's a really hard time, just personally, but I don't know, I'm a fan girl. I love music, and nobody can take that away," she said on the podcast. "That sounds so cheesy, but I love music, and I feel so lucky that I get to do what I do, and I love so many songs, and I've grown up being surrounded with awesome music and awesome bands, and I truly just do feel so lucky."
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