Is It Actually About Olivia Rodrigo?

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A new Taylor Swift album is upon us, which implies that followers are as soon as once more eagerly dissecting the lyrics looking for hidden disses and coded confessions.

A number of the most obsessed-over traces are featured in “Father Determine,” the tune that — as Swifties appropriately guessed when the monitor checklist was launched final month — options an interpolation of the George Michael tune by the identical title.

As standard, Taylor’s sights appear squarely geared toward her haters — however there’s some debate over precisely which enemies she’s focusing on this time.

‘Father Determine’ appears to be Taylor’s manner of lashing out at a number of foes

The tune sees Taylor spinning a yarn about an formidable younger singer and the mentor who winds up exploiting her.

“Your inconsiderate ambition sparked the ignition / On silly selections, which led to misguided visions / That to meet your desires, you needed to eliminate me,” Swift sings.

So the obvious targets listed here are Scooter Braun, who infamously bought the rights to Taylor’s music, and Scott Borchetta, the previous head of Huge Machine Information, who lower the cope with Braun.

“This empire belongs to me,” Taylor sings in a later verse, seemingly celebrating the truth that she’s lastly managed to purchase her masters again.

So case closed, proper? Effectively, there may be extra to the story right here.

How does Olivia Rodrigo issue into the ‘Father Determine’ narrative?

Again in 2021, a copyright dispute over Rodrigo’s tune “Deja Vu” ended with Swift getting a songwriting credit score and 50 % of its royalties.

It’s been broadly rumored that Rodrigo vented her frustration towards Swift — whom she’d as soon as thought to be a mentor — on her 2023 tune “Vampire.”

So when Taylor addressed an adoring protege and sang, “You remind me of a youthful me” on “Father Determine,” it’s not shocking that many followers jumped to the conclusion that she was referring to Olivia.

“I confirmed you all of the methods of the commerce / All I requested for is your loyalty, my expensive protégé,” Swift sings on the monitor, later including, “I noticed a change in you / My expensive boy / They don’t make loyalty like they used to.”

Maybe in a second of self-reflection, Taylor noticed the similarity between the 2 conditions.

Or possibly followers are as soon as once more delving a lot too deep into Taylor’s lyrics.