Masterpost on taylor and olivia's relationship (but taylor is at fault)
it's an ugly theory for taylor.. so if you can't handle criticism for her please don't read!
I'd like to start by saying I'm not an olivia stan, I've been a taylor stan for 10 years but this is the theory I found to be logical.
Firstly , let's look at this blind item posted on may 22/2023 because it's the spark for this theory
AA is taylor, AB is Matty healy, AC is olivia.
AD could be beyonce or Ariana but it is irrelevant
AE is deja vu and AF is hayley william
AG is good 4 u
So anyways now that we have layed the ground for the theory let's discuss
From olivia's dawn of time to April 2021:
Olivia has always talked over and over how she's the biggest swiftie on earth.. and in January 2021 taylor commented the famous "I say that's my baby and I'm really proud" and she was also sending Olivia gifts.
And then Fearless TV is announced, and the also famous reel of Olivia and Conan on White Horse TV
Also note that taylor sent olivia the Red ring and olivia talked about it which was in march 2021
"All of her support and genuine compassion and excitement for me has just been so so surreal," the "Drivers License" singer said of Taylor S
So far everyone is everyone's bestie right and they're both in each other's business?
And it continues, and they meet in 11 May 2021 in the BRITs awards where they photographed together and it's all very cute
Now before we move on to the sour release let's talk about olivia for a little:
She was just 18 at the time, she was resembling to taylor's style in many ways:
She wrote about her personal life and had drama around her with her ex and how he cheated
She wrote all her songs and her style is close to Taylor which is fast songwriting and just gets the idea and write about it.
BUT also she differed from Taylor in the following and I'm here talking about late taylor pop album Lover because folklore isn't in the same category:
She made her album very short which helped in the streams
She chose the best singles for her album
She got viraled on tiktok with most of her tracks
Now keep in mind that lover technically flopped (IN TAYLOR'S EYES ONLY), and while folklore has just won AOTY, fearless TV also wasn't that huge of a success (which might be okay as i don't think she thought that the rerecords would make that much of a hit) and ofc evermore also flopped in her eyes (I just know that the willow flop incident is still hunting her), and as a Taylor fan we all know how crazy she gets when her albums aren't breaking all records left and right, and how especially in the lover era she was talking about how she's never gonna get more famous, but then ofc folklore happened, and she started gaining some new fans this time and also the rerecording thing boosted her, but in her head she had about 3 out of 4 albums that weren't up to her standard.
Panic in swift city:
Sour release May 21
Sour is released, olivia is breaking every record left and right and taylor's records, and her spotlight, and her fans because everyone saw that they were friends so they were double stanning. And ofc, miss swift who wrote nothing new would start to feel threatened right? She did.
Sour dropped and taylor had "non collaborative credit" on a song, which is "1 step forward, 3 steps back" that was sampled from new year's day, now of course Olivia got approval for this her and Taylor are besties, and when the album dropped taylor had credits for this one song, and knowing taylor which is also miss "get a good lawyer" she wouldn't let Olivia not write her credits on only one song if there was another..
Video below has olivia talking about the album and she mentions she got approval for 1sf3sb
Now let's talk about the first thing that could be shady:
May 28 2021: evermore vinyls release
So after 1 week of sour, taylor finally drops the evermore vinyls. Like imagine if the situation has been reversed and another huge artist drops something 1 week after taylor's album release? Girl would have eaten them alive. BUT ALSO, she could have scheduled it from early. But also also, she could have postponed it for 1 week. I can't really tell but it just seem weird to release them when Olivia is your baby right?
Which btw resulted in Taylor of course dethroning Olivia the next week. Yes it is weird.
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The week’s most popular albums as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalen
July 9th 2021
Taylor and Jack got writing credit for deja vu which was a mega successful hit, which is weird.. why now? And they say it's because "cruel summer" influenced deja vu, which if you ask me doesn't make sense if you listen to the songs, but anyways it happened suddenly?
My theory is, taylor saw how sour preformed, and how big deja vu was and of course olivia has told her that cruel summer inspired that, and probably asked her if she was okay with it, and taylor said yes. But then she changed her mind with how well sour got and wanted a piece of the pie, so maybe she threatened a lawsuit? Maybe she just said she'd unleash the angry swifties? Maybe olivia just wanted to be polite? Who knows
Olivia Rodrigo and her main collaborator, songwriter-producer Daniel Nigro, have given Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent a songwri
After that and for most of the year, they stopped mentioning each other and it was radio silence.
December 6 2021:
Grammys change their rules, which meant that taylor wouldn't be getting a grammy for sour.. which of course made taylor even more mad because we all know how much she loves getting a grammy. Now ofc red tv was released and she was getting more loved by everyone and she was everywhere. But nothing is ever enough for taylor on a famous level, or a grammy level.
The news came after several other updates were made to the nominees list, including the removal of Marilyn Manson.
April 4,2022:
Taylor and Olivia are at the Grammy, supposedly they're still friends, taylor should be supporting olivia for her album with 2 taylor influence right? no. They don't interact all night and sour wins 3 awards and does a 2009 Fearless Taylor moment, while Taylor gets 1 award which is still huge, but Taylor gets jealous of Olivia being in the spotlight for 1 year, and wining all those awards and most of all, being compared to her all the time.
Keep in mind that swifties were dragging olivia left and right and they kept saying she was benefiting off taylor and she was a fake because they claim olivia betrayed taylor for some reason, olivia was (and still) gets hate everywhere and even snake emojis. Which is something taylor could stop with a tweet/story mentioning Olivia in any good way which will result in swifties stopping acting like assholes.
After and until now, olivia never mentions taylor, only Conan Grey who is olivia's bestie and also a diehard swiftie as he used to claim said that he didn't get a chance to listen to midnights which fueled swifties.
Now there could be 3 things:
1. Taylor was really jealous and threatened by Olivia so she cut her off and took the credit out of jealousy and probably in a not nice way in july 2021.
2. Olivia wanted to separate herself from Taylor because swifties were saying she's using taylor for clout (that's the most popular narrative)
3. Olivia is the shady one and didn't want to give taylor credit (highly unlikely because she was just debuting and she's a huge fan of Taylor)
Personally i do not think olivia or her team would let her be stupid enough to start a feud with taylor, we all know how this ends. And especially when Taylor is a role model to her. So why would she fight with taylor and risk her getting angry and get endless hate from her army that holds grudges till the end of time against anyone that comes near taylor? Additionally, I think even if there was a little tension, olivia still wouldn't cut Taylor off because she's useful to everyone who's her friend as i said swifties hold grudges but they also worship anyone who's her friend. So my guess is taylor is the one who started this thing, and regarding the second possibility, maybe olivia wanted not to be in the shadow but Taylor got hurt over this.
Let me know what you think!
