Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo, a songwriter, musician, and actress starring in the popular Disney Channel TV show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series just released her new song Drivers License on January 8th. The song quickly blew up, having 8 million streams on Spotify and 9 million views on her music video in only three days. There are theories that the song is about her past cast member, Joshua Bassett. 

The song includes many specific lyrics, which some fans believe to be about Bassett. Rodrigo and Bassett’s characters dated in the show, and there have been rumors the two had a relationship off screen. It has recently been rumored that Basset and Sabrina Carpenter, another singer/actress from Disney Channel, have been dating. In the song Rodrigo references “a blonde girl” which seems to be a coincidence since Sabrina Carpenter is also blonde.

Olivia Rodrigo has mentioned her number one idol and role model is Taylor Swift. Since the song was released, Rodrigo has passed Taylor Swift in the charts and tweeted, “Next to Taylor on the US iTunes chart. I’m in a puddle of tears.” Taylor responded saying “I say that’s my baby and I’m really proud!”

With the quick amount of success in such a short amount of time, this could be a career changing moment for Rodrigo. Senior Maya Salzman even said, “I listened to the song at least 10 times already, definitely one of my favorites!” Being only seventeen years old, Olivia Rodrigo has a lot of talent and success at such a young age, and this is only the beginning.