Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Sabrina Carpenter Drama: Particulars

Disney drama! Us Weekly is breaking down Olivia Rodrigo’s alleged feud with Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical — The Sequence costar Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter, amid their music faceoff.

The Bizaardvark alum, 17, made headlines in January 2021 after releasing her debut single, “Driver’s License.” The hit track resonated with Rodrigo’s followers, together with Taylor Swift, but it surely additionally precipitated some to assume that it was concerning the rumored drama between her, Bassett, 20, and Carpenter, 21.

Eagle-eyed followers identified that Rodrigo modified the lyrics from her 2020 teaser observe from “brunette” to “blonde,” seemingly referencing the Lady Meets World alum in a single verse.

“And also you’re most likely with that blonde lady / Who at all times made me doubt / She’s a lot older than me / She’s every thing I’m insecure about,” the Grace Stirs Up Success star sings, hinting at Carpenter’s hair colour and the truth that she is three years older than her.

Rodrigo’s observe got here six months after Bassett launched the track, “Anybody Else,” in July 2020, which gave the impression to be about her. “How am I supposed to consider the rest? / How am I to go on protecting this to myself? / I’m performed pretending I need anybody else / Anybody else, anybody else,” Bassett sings. He later confirmed that the observe was written about falling for a buddy who was unavailable.

In her track, Rodrigo, sings, “I simply can’t think about how you possibly can be so OK now that I’m gone / Guess you didn’t imply what you wrote in that track about me.”

Though the costars have by no means addressed whether or not they had been ever romantically concerned, followers imagine that Rodrigo and Bassett had been an merchandise in 2020. The Caught within the Center alum, nonetheless, appeared to maneuver on with Carpenter in June 2020, after the pair had been noticed at a protest collectively in L.A.

Rodrigo has but to establish who impressed her new observe, however each Bassett and Carpenter have since dropped songs of their very own, hinting that they’re the truth is the supply of inspiration for “Driver’s License.”

Bassett’s January 2021 launch, titled, “Lie, Lie, Lie,” got here out on January 14, one week after Rodrigo’s track hit the airwaves.

“I wrote ‘Lie, Lie, Lie’ after I discovered a buddy had been mendacity about me behind my again for a very long time,” the Oceanside, California, native wrote by way of his Instagram Tales on the time. “It at all times sucks to listen to that somebody you thought you possibly can belief would throw you below the bus when it advantages them.”

He added: “It occurs to all of us, and I believe all you are able to do is hunt down those that construct you up slightly than tear you down.”

The next week, the Clouds actress shared what gave the impression to be her facet of the story, within the January 22 launch of “Pores and skin.”

“Possibly we might’ve been mates / If I met you in one other life,” Carpenter sings at one level within the observe. She later seemingly referenced Rodrigo’s title, with the lyric, “Don’t drive your self insane.”

Scroll all the way down to see every thing that has unfolded between the Disney Channel stars amid their alleged feud.