Olivia Rodrigo subtly revealed that she and Taylor Swift are on much better terms these days. Following the Grammys, fans noticed that Rodrigo liked an Instagram of Swift’s E! glam bot footage posted on a Taylor Swift fan account.
Olivia Rodrigo’s like on the Taylor Swift Instagram
The move comes after a video went viral of Rodrigo’s boyfriend, Louis Partridge, talking with Swift at the music awards ceremony. Swift motioned at Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter, who had been chatting at the same time.
Carpenter and Rodrigo had drama in the past over their shared ex Joshua Bassett. In 2021, fans speculated that Rodrigo referenced Carpenter when she sang in “drivers license” about her ex spending time with “that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about.”
Carpenter later touched on the attention Rodrigo’s song got her in her track “because i liked a boy.”
As for Taylor Swift, Rodrigo generated feud rumors in 2023 with the release of Guts. Rodrigo denied there being drama to Rolling Stone that September, saying, “I don’t have beef with anyone. I’m very chill. I keep to myself. I have my four friends and my mom, and that’s really the only people I talk to, ever. There’s nothing to say. There’s so many Twitter conspiracy theories. I only look at alien-conspiracy theories.”
The feud theory was sparked over a songwriting issue. Swift and Jack Antonoff got retroactive songwriter credits for Sour’s “Deja Vu” due to its bridge sounding like their song “Cruel Summer.” The credit came three months after Rodrigo spoke about being inspired by “Cruel Summer” in an April 2021 interview. The addition gives Swift and Antonoff 50 percent of the song’s royalties.
The belated credit was “not something that I was super involved in,” Rodrigo told Rolling Stone in September 2023. “It was more team-on-team. So, I wouldn’t be the best person to ask.”
At last year’s Grammys, Swift was supportive of Rodrigo, singing and dancing as Rodrigo performed her song “Vampire.”
Months prior, in September 2023, Rodrigo denied fan speculation that “Vampire” was about Swift. “I never want to say who any of my songs are about,” she said in an interview with The Guardian. “I’ve never done that before in my career and probably won’t. I think it’s better to not pigeonhole a song to being about this one thing.” Of Swift specifically, she said, “I was very surprised when people thought that.”
Some fans also wondered whether “The Grudge” from Guts was about Swift. Rodrigo never revealed the subject of that song.
But the past is the past. With one Instagram like and one viral hug, Rodrigo signaled any issues with Swift and Carpenter are behind her.