He has over 6.6 million followers on Instagram, over 5 million on TikTok, and his single ‘Drivers License’ is number one on various charts, platforms, and countries; In addition to having exceeded 146 million views on the YouTube video clip and having gone viral on TikTok.
Olivia Rodrigo, only 18 years old, has become the new promise of music thanks to her debut song ‘Driver’s License’, with which she has led all the statistics for the month of February on Spotify: she has been number 1 for eight weeks of reproductions in the music platform in ‘streaming’ and with almost half a million listeners.
And it is that, with more than 185 million reproductions around the world, the song that the ‘Disney girl’ dedicated to her ex-partner has become a success.
The ‘top 15’ of songs with the most ‘streaming’ in the last month is completed by artists of the stature of Bad Bunny, The Weeknd or Dua Lipa.
Olivia rodrigo is a star of generation Z, given that he has talent and visibility, in addition to the support of Taylor Swift. Everything indicates that it has come to stay. Rodrigo was born in Temecula, California, on February 20, 2003.
Origins. He is of Filipino descent from his father, and German and Irish from his mother. And from a very young age she began to take steps to be a star: at the age of six she was already studying singing and acting.
+ First appearance
His first appearance on the small screen was in a commercial for Old Navy. She had to wait some time, until 2015, to do her first more serious job: a starring role in the TV movie ‘An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success’.
Just a year later she was chosen to be part of the cast of the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, giving life to the character of Paige Olvera during the three seasons that the series had.
Although this role was already a nascent fame, she ended up making the leap to celebrity in 2019, when she was chosen for the original Disney + series ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’.
In the series, these students were boys and girls from the high school where the famous movie was fictitiously shot. The students were going to participate in a musical that recreated the film and the protagonist, Nini Salazar-Roberts (whom Olivia gave life) was chosen to play the main role of the play, Gabriella Montez.
For this series, in addition to performing the hits of the original film, such as ‘Breaking Free’, Olivia wrote the song ‘All I Want’ (which was hugely popular on TikTok) and, together with her co-star and also star Joshua Bassett , he co-wrote yet another: ‘Just For a Moment’.
Love crossed the screen And, for a while, the fiction became reality: like the characters of Nini and Ricky, and like Gabriella and Troy, Olivia and Joshua had an affair that ended when they reached quarantine due to COVID-19.
There are unconfirmed rumors that the reason for the breakup could be Joshua Bassett’s infidelity with another Disney girl, Sabrina Carpenter.
+ Song with history
All this love triangle seems to be contained in the song that is now sweeping and breaking records, ‘Drivers License’, Olivia Rodrigo’s first ‘single’ outside ‘High School Musical’, released on January 8 and whose lyrics speak of a breakup.
The young woman had signed in 2020 a contract with the record company Geffen Records (belonging to the great Universal Music), and this first success has put her as number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which leads for more than two weeks, and on platforms such as Spotify. , Amazon Music or iTunes.
In the lyrics, Olivia says, “You will probably be with that blonde girl who always made me feel insecure. / She is older than me”. In addition, according to an article in Los 40, that verse was initially going to say “brunette” and she changed it to “blonde.” Coincidence or not? Sabrina Carpenter is blonde and 22 years old.
But Rodrigo has not clarified it: “I perfectly understand people’s curiosity for details such as who the song is talking about and what it is about, but that is not what is important to me,” he said in an interview with ‘Billboard’. And she expressed what was the priority for her: “The song is resonating with people because it manages to move them, and I think that everything else does not matter.”
Thus, while still sweeping social networks and music lists, and turned into a musical idol for the ‘centennials’, Olivia Rodrigo celebrates her coming of age (she was born on February 20, 2003) with the best birthday present: the well-deserved triumph of their work, effort and talent.
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