![]() ![]() Is Olivia Rodrigo's 'Deja Vu' About Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter? Lyric Breakdown “And you’re probably with that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about,” she sings in the track about the 21-year-old former Girl Meets World star. (She previously teased the song via Instagram months before she recorded it.) Social media users were subsequently convinced that Rodrigo penned “Drivers License” about Carpenter after she changed the lyrics from “brunette” to “blonde” before she released the track in January. After their split, he was linked to fellow Disney darling Sabrina Carpenterduring the summer of 2020. Rodrigo reportedly dated Bassett, 20, while filming season 1 of the Disney+ series. “I thought it’d be interesting to write a song, using deja vu, about how sometimes when somebody moves on in a relationship and they get with a new partner, you watch it and you’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh, that was all of the stuff that I did.’ I think that’s a really relatable, universal thing.” “I really like descriptive, narrative-based songwriting, so we tried to do that in the verses and paint pictures of all the specific things that you do in a relationship,” the 18-year-old musician told American Songwriterahead of the Thursday, April 1, release. Together we try to understand how the byzantine music copyright system works, and how its rules affect the sound of pop music today and in the future.Olivia Rodrigo is at it again! Three months after making headlines for seemingly writing “Drivers License” about her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series costar J oshua Bassett, fans are convinced she’s continuing the narrative with her new single, “Deja Vu.” This week we are airing the conversation Switched On Pop’s Charlie Harding had on the podcast Decoder with host Nilay Patel who is also editor and chief of The Verge. This online campaign likely contributed to Rodrigo handing songwriting credits, also known as publishing, to Hayley Williams and Josh Farro of the band Paramore. ![]() Viral TikTok videos compared Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” to Paramore’s “Misery Business,” which share a common chord progression and vibe. Many listeners have commented on Rodrigo’s more obvious influences on social media. The question of whether someone can borrow a vibe resurfaced when Olivia Rodrigo shared songwriting credits on her hit 2021 album Sour with Taylor Swift, and comparisons have been made to the art of Courtney Love and music of Elvis Costello. Many artists fear that a bad court outcome could let an artist copyright a “vibe” using commonly used musical language. But recent cases increasingly litigate the core building blocks of music. ![]() Historically, courts have extended copyright to only unique combinations of words and music, not rhythms, chords, instruments. This story has come in and out of the news cycle in closely watched jury trials including artists like Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, and Katie Perry. In the last ten years there have been 190 public cases, up over 350% from the prior decade, according to The George Washington University & Columbia Law School Music Copyright Infringement Resource. Smith’s melody for “Stay With Me” clearly drew from Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” On rare occasions these cases go to court, where music litigation is at an all time high. Frequently, credits are given retroactively to avoid the cost of long jury trials like when Sam Smith credited Tom Petty. More and more artists are giving songwriting credits away. In the last few years music copyright claims have skyrocketed. ![]()
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